Don't tell me what I can't have as a vegan!!!
This falls in the same category as my last Hawaiian Pizza post of 'I can't believe I'm blogging this'! I know it's nothing original but I do like to post things that people don't expect when thinking of vegan food. I always think back to why I was vegetarian for 12 years and not vegan, as now I know how easy it is. I think I probably thought that it would be too hard and oh, I couldn't have this and that etc... Well, it's all simply not true and had I known this before would have become vegan much sooner than I did :) While it's true that you have to have a taste for cheezly here, as no, it doesn't taste like cheese ;) this was still so, so good!! I made the base myself and it turned out beautifully! Lovely thick fluffy base, crisp on the outside - so good....then just used store bought pizza sauce, redwood foods' vegan pepperoni slices and super melting cheezly mozza flavour.
Makes 1 good sized individual pizza:
112g strong white bread flour (I highly recommend Waitrose's Canadian very strong white flour here, it's fantastic! UK specific though, I know!!)
1/4 tsp fine sea salt
1/8 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp active dry yeast
75ml hand hot water
1/2 tsp olive oil (plus more to grease bowl)
Dissolve the sugar in the water then sprinkle the yeast on. Let it get frothy for 10 minutes then whisk it up with the olive oil. Stir in the flour and salt then knead for 10 minutes, until smooth and elastic, form into a ball. Wash a bowl with hot water, dry then grease well with olive oil. Add the dough to the warm bowl, turning over to coat with the oil, cover with cling film and leave in a warm place for 1 hour. Punch down and give it a few more kneads then shape into the base size you like.
Spread with the sauce, top with pepperoni and a generous amount of cheezly and a few grinds black pepper. Bake in a 220C oven for about 15 minutes or until puffy, edges are golden and cheese is melted and bubbling.
Looks delicious. I adore pizza.
ReplyDeleteThis looks plain amazing! I need to make it in the next few days.
ReplyDeleteI think cheezly tastes pretty like cheese. I only buy it every now and then though as it is expensive. As well, I prefer to use my own stuff to top a pizza as I think it tastes even better. It doesn't look like cheese being that it is more of a sauce but in my view it tastes really like cheese. I make not macaroni cheese, baked potato with not cheese sauce, toasted not cheese sandwiches, cauliflower not cheese etc. Not to mention all the bakes I used to make with cheese. I've converted those too. Once you know what the flavours are. It's easy to do. Back to cheezly, it makes a pretty nice pizza and hits the spot. Yours is looking really good!
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