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Vegan Options at Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut is the daughter company of one of the world’s largest restaurant companies, Yum! Brands. Established in 1958, Pizza Hut became the leading restaurant chain with 18,703 outlets worldwide.
Out of the hundreds of food items the company serves, only a handful are vegan, unfortunately. Their vegan menu has fries, cinnamon sticks, sauces, Beyond Pizza, etc.
Vegans, however, should not worry about it as they can make most of their pizza vegan-friendly. Ask them to remove a few ingredients, and you can eat their delicious dairy-and-meat-free pizzas. Below you can find a list of vegan options at Pizza Hut.
The Great Beyond Pizza
The latest addition to Pizza Hut’s menu is the Great Beyond Pizza. Loaded with cheese, sliced tomatoes, onions, banana peppers, and vegan sausage, it became an instant favorite. However, their cheese is not vegan, so they better have the pizza without it.
Vegan Pizza Dough
- Hand-Tossed style
- Thin ‘N Crispy dough
- Calzone-like P’Zone dough
- Pan crust
Pizza Crust Flavors
Pizza Hut offers a lot of crust flavors that embellish your pizza. But only one of them is vegan – Buttery Blend Crust Flavor. So, you can either order a no-crust flavor or go with the buttery blend. Avoid their Garlic Buttery Blend as it contains dairy.
Cheese
As mentioned above, Pizza Hut does not have vegan cheese. The ideal option is to omit the cheese in your pizzas.
Sauces
The pizza restaurant has several sauces on its menu, but only two are vegan.
- Buffalo pizza sauce
- Pizza sauce
Vegan Pizza Toppings
Luckily, Pizza Hut offers a variety of vegan toppings you can add to your pizzas. These are:
- Sweet pineapple
- Diced Roma tomatoes
- Mushrooms
- Green bell peppers
- Red onions
- Sliced jalapeno peppers
- Mediterranean black olives
- Sliced banana peppers
- Roasted spinach
Sides
- Breadsticks: Ask them to omit parmesan and seasoning on the breadsticks.
- Cinnamon sticks: Order them without the icing dipping cup that contains dairy.
- Wing street fries
Sauces (For Sides)
- Buffalo medium
- Spicy BBQ
- Spicy Asian
- Buffalo burnin’ hot
- Lemon pepper
- Buffalo mild
Extra Tip
The chances of cross-contamination in restaurants like Pizza Hut are high as they use the same equipment for vegetarian and non-vegetarian items. So, you can request the workers to use gloves and a different pizza cutter for vegan products. Also, see if they can replace cheese with another topping.
Their allergen guide clearly states that the restaurant cannot discuss cross-contamination with allergens. They also mentioned that some of their products contain eggs, soy, milk, and other allergens.
Does Pizza Hut Have Vegan Meat?
In October 2020, Pizza Hut added a vegan-friendly option to its menu. This inclusion happened after much pressure from PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) and its supporters.
Now, their Beyond Meat Sausage Crumbles are 100% vegan and available at every outlet in the US.
How To Order Vegan Dishes At Pizza Hut?
Ordering a vegan pizza at Pizza Hut would require a lot of modifications in the ingredients. You can simply choose their Create Your Own Pizza option.
Creating and adding your preferred ingredients to the pizza is better than replacing them in the available recipes. Just omit the cheese and other non-vegan toppings.
Choose the Buttery Blend Crust Flavor, the only vegan crust at Pizza Hut. Other crusts contain cow’s milk and eggs. Opt for the vegan marinara and Buffalo sauces in your pizzas, or you can have the Buffalo dipping sauce.
Pizza Hut has loads of vegan toppings, such as banana peppers, green chile pepper, green olives, and the ones mentioned above.
Other Restaurants That Serve Vegan Pizza
Apart from Pizza Hut, plenty of other restaurants have vegan options on their menu. Here are a few places you can try!
& Pizza
The best thing about & Pizza‘s menu is its separate section for vegan pizzas and other options. Their ancient grain dough and traditional dough are both vegan.
Vegan sauces include spicy tomato, classic tomato, olive pesto, roasted chickpea puree, basil spinach pesto, and roasted garlic puree. & Pizza also has vegan mozzarella and meaty toppings, including spicy chickpeas, vegan beef crumbles, and falafel crumbles.
Other vegan toppings are:
- Scallions
- Summer squash
- Spinach
- Broccoli
- Tater tots
- Fresno pepper
- Roasted red pepper
- Mushroom
- Asparagus
- Pineapple
- Grilled onion
- Jalapeno
- Grape tomato
Blaze Pizza
Blaze Pizza took a step towards a vegan-friendly environment and started offering a pizza topping – vegan spicy chorizo. The addition came after months of talks with PETA.
Blaze Pizza offers vegan Daiya cheese as a substitute for regular cheese without charging you any money. Out of the five crusts, the classic and high-rise crust are vegan, while others contain milk and egg.
The pizza restaurant has vegan red sauce and spicy red sauce. However, they have plenty of options for toppings. These are:
- Artichokes
- Basil
- Banana peppers
- Black olives
- Cherry tomatoes
- Jalapenos
- Green bell peppers
- Garlic – chopped or roasted
- Kalamata olives
- Mushrooms
- Red onions
- Pineapple
- Red peppers
- Spinach
- Roasted butternut squash
- Sauteed onion
- Roasted brussels sprouts
- Zucchini
Pieology
Pieology offers vegan crust oils, including olive oil, liquid butter alternative, and garlic herb butter. Their traditional sauces are vegan – fiery Buffalo sauce, house red sauce, and BBQ sauce.
Moreover, Pieology serves plant-based beef meatballs, spicy Italian sausage rounds, and diced chicken. They have dairy-free Daiya cheese and mozzarella. Their veg toppings are:
- Spinach
- Marinated artichokes
- Artichokes
- Basil
- Red onions
- Pineapple
- Garlic
- Black olives
- Green peppers
- Cilantro
- Jalapenos
- Grape tomatoes
- Kalamata olives
- Mushrooms
- Red pepper flakes
- Banana peppers
- Roasted red peppers
Pizza 73
Pizza 73, a popular restaurant chain, recently added numerous vegan options to its varied menu. Vegans can select the cauliflower crust for their pizzas and the dairy-free cheese.
Pizza 73 also has two plant-based meat options – field roast spicy sausage and Yves veggie cuisine pepperoni. The best thing about these vegan options is that they are available at every Pizza 73 outlet.
Sarpino’s Pizzeria
In June 2020, Sarpino’s menu saw some great vegan additions. A few delicious inclusions were the Beyond Meat Italian sausage, vegan margarita, and vegan sausage calzone (made with dairy-free Daiya cheese).
They also serve vegan garlic bread, cheesy bread, pasta, salad, grilled cheese, and various other items in selected locations. Try their tater tots, potato wedges, and dairy-free mozzarella breadsticks.
Toppers Pizza
Toppers Pizza tested a few vegan recipes and added loads of vegan options to their menu. The all-new house pizza offerings include vegan Buffalo chicken-less toppers, vegan Tuscano toppers, and vegan Korean BBQ chicken-less toppers.
Their tall, thin, and hand-tossed crusts are 100% vegan. You can top your pizzas with plant-based chicken, roasted garlic and tomatoes, tater tots, olives, and spinach.
Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria
Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria has a separate section on its menu for its vegan options, so you can directly order without any modifications to the pizza. You can get their Beyond Pizza along with the dairy-free cheese.
Apart from pizzas, the pizzeria offers orecchiette pasta mixed in Beyond Meat sauce. Their Beyond open-faced sloppy joe with Daiya cheese is one of the most delicious things on the menu.
Picazzo’s Organic Italian Kitchen
Picazzo offers a plethora of vegan options at its outlets. Beyond Meat and Beyond chicken strips work great as toppings on the pizza. Their dairy-free cheese and Alfredo sauce go well with pizzas. For desserts, Picazzo’s has dairy-free cheesecake.
Two Boots
Two Boots’ menu comprises vegan calzones, vegan ricotta, and other animal-friendly products. They even created their own Earth Mother and V for vegan pizzas.
You can top them up with dairy-free cheese, veggies, and vegan sausages.
UNO Pizzeria & Grill
UNO Pizzeria & Grill lets you customize your pizzas with various vegan options available. Other than pizzas, they also have the Beyond burger, mixed berry & walnut salad, and primavera zoodles.
Some Lesser-Known Vegan Pizza Restaurants
Following are those restaurants that are not much popular but have some delicious vegan pizzas and other offerings:
- Pizza Fusion
- Blast 825 Pizza
- Escape From New York Pizza
- Fuel Pizza
- Pyro’s Fire Fresh Pizza
- America’s Incredible Pizza Company
- Zachary’s Chicago Pizza, Inc.
- Fired Pie
- Extreme Pizza
- Busboys and Poets
- Pizza Studio
- Live Basil Pizza
- Panago Pizza
- New York Pizza Dept
- Paulie Gee’s
- Rapid Fired Pizza
- Ian’s Pizza
- Pete’s New Haven Style Apizza
- Oath Craft Pizza
- Ribalta
- Pi Pizzeria
- Ynot Italian
- Pitfire Pizza
- Sammy’s Woodfire Pizza and Grill
- Your Pie
Summing Up
Now, you can enjoy pizzas at different restaurants as much as non-vegans. The list of vegan restaurants will increase in the upcoming years, giving you even more options. Due to the heavy demand for vegan food, more and more companies are introducing vegan items.
Pizza Hut may not be a vegan-friendly restaurant, but you can still enjoy their Build Your Own Pizza with vegan toppings. You can refer to the list above if you want to try something else.