Friday nights have been pizza nights in my family ever since I bought a kick arse pizza oven a few years ago. So here's my dilemma- a cruelty free pizza, can it be done? Hell yeah it can!
When you think of pizza you might think of dominos or pizza hut, mmm lots of fat and oil and copious cheese (ewwies). Aside from the animal cruelty involved with making a nasty meat lovers pizza, it's not particularly nice to your waistline or heart!
Plus if you've tried homemade pizza I'm sure you wouldn't want to go back to the nasty stuff that comes out of fast food pizza stores anyway.
So here is my recipe for a yummy 'vegan' pizza.
NB: Pizza toppings are subject to what is available (i.e. not yet funky in the fridge).
Ingredients:
- Pizza base (you can buy one from the supermarket, but we make our own fresh dough in our bread maker)
- Tomato paste
- Dried herbs
- Fresh garlic, crushed
Topping ideas:
- Meat substitutes (fake bacon, tempeh, fake chicken schnitzel sliced up)
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Olives
- Capsicum
- Pineapple
- Roasted pumpkin or sweet potato
- Baby spinach
- Fresh herbs
- Tomato (fresh or sundried-though sundried it better as it’s so flavoursome and doesn’t make your pizza soggy)
- Grilled eggplant
You can pretty much add what you like, but the above are my favourites.
-Vegan pizza sauce (see below)
Method:
- Spread the tomato paste over the base and add herbs and garlic.
- Layer with your favourite toppings (TIP: less is more, you don’t want to overload as it might get soggy).
- Dollop your pizza sauce over the top.
- Place onto of preheated pizza stone and cook in over until you can’t wait any longer. Or place in pizza oven.
- I like to chop up some fresh herbs like basil and oregano, as well as baby spinach and put it on the pizza just before I take it out.
Result, YUM!
Pizza sauce recipe:
I sourced this recipe from another blog ‘Vegan Grandma’ which you should check out.
It’s awesome and so easy to make!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup nutritional yeast
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic granules
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
Put all ingredients except the 2 tablespoons of water (include the 1 cup of water) in a blender and process until smooth. Pour the mixture into a small saucepan, and stir over medium heat until it starts to thicken. Let it bubble for 30 seconds, remove from heat and whisk vigorously.
Whisk in the 2 tablespoons of water and optional oil (the oil adds richness and helps the "cheese" to melt better. It adds only 2.6 grams of fat per 1/4 cup).
Drizzle immediately over pizza or other food (it’s good on steamed broccoli), and broil or bake until a skin forms on top. You can also refrigerate in a small covered container for up to a week. It will become firm when chilled, and cannot be poured, but it will still be spreadable, and can be spread on bread or quesadillas for grilling.
NB: This is NOT my cheese recipe. Credit goes to ‘Vegan Grandma’.
~Homemade pizza base~
~Bought pizza base~
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