What do you use as a substitute for cheese in pizza?!
What do you use as a substitute for cheese in pizza?
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The Vegan Gourmet has great vegan cheese...I get it at Sunflower Market. If you dont have those there, try Sprouts. I know Trader Joes doesn't carry it. If you are vegan watch out with soy cheeses, most of them have milk proteins in them, which basicly defeats the purpose.
try soy cheese, its in your vegetarian section in the produce aisle.
Soy cheese but... blech!
tofu
soy milk cheese
Only 4 changes on your recepie.
You can try changing the cheese for lettuce,
the peperoni for carrots,
Tomato sauce for Real tomatoes
Doug for bread crums
and ... you have a pizza that you can call a salad
LOL
(sorry I couldn't resist)
There are all kinds of soy cheese, but I dont use any on my pizza. I just load it with vegetables, olives, tomato sauce, herbes and spices. Yum.
Here are some recipes for vegan pizza..I have not tried them...
Pizza (vegan)
http://home.earthlink.net/~jchoosej/vega...
http://www.honeylocust.com/pizza/...
http://www.recipezaar.com/10579...
http://www.vegan-food.net/recipe/185/piz...
http://vegweb.com/index.php?phpsessid=b5... (“the best vegan pizza ever”)
http://www.chezbettay.com/basics_bread.h... (Pizza Dough or basic bread dough)
I often just leave the cheese off. Sauce, veggies and dough still makes a fine dish.
Follow your Heart makes a decent cheese that melts and works for pizza.
Chreese from Road's End Organics also works well. ( http://www.chreese.com ) It's a powder like you'd find in a box of Mac N Cheese, but it hardens well on pizza and tastes good.
Most of the soy cheeses on the market aren't vegan as they contain casein. (Casein is also what allows the cheese to melt.) And many of the vegan cheeses aren't very good or don't melt well so try to avoid the ones without recommendations.
Where do you live? In the UK and Europe, there's a wonderful thing called Cheezly. It blows every vegan cheese I've had in the States out of the water! It melts and even my French boyfriend will eat it (he says it tastes like industrial mozzarella, which is sort of a compliment, I guess). It has trouble making it's way into any dish because it's so good right out of the package. Beat that veganrella!
When I lived in the States, there was a pizza place in my town that had "Ana's Lovely Vegan Sauce". It was made out of nutritional yeast, tahini, soy milk, and was a thick cheese like sauce they put on top of their vegan pizzas. I haven't quite replicated it (I'm sure Ana spent years on the recipe), but I've come pretty close, and it's tasty. You can also try making a vegan alfredo sauce out of silken tofu, nutritional yeast flakes, soy milk, and seasonings. You won't miss the cheese on that one.
A homemade recipe?
I just put this in the blender: raw cashews, nutritional yeast, little water, perhaps little Bragg... then whatever else you want.
I just blend that till smooth and thick. Then dollop it onto my pizza. The only good vegan cheese around right now that I know of is from those same people that make veganaise.
The original recipe is in that John Robbins book, where he's squatting in a vegetable field on the front cover... what's that book called... anyway, it's in there.
I use soy cheese. I don't remember the brand, but it comes in a green re-sealable package. It does not taste so great alone, but it melts wonderfully. When it melts, it tastes just like regular cheese! The consistency of it is similar to regular cheese as well.
I've actually seen vegan pizzas with the crust, sauce, veggies and no cheese. I've never tried it, but it looks delicious. You may want to try that.