Vegan pizza? We have no vegan cheese, what can I use instead?

Question

Pizza isnt pizza without cheese, but my parents wont pay for vegan food so I have to make due with stuff around the house.

Is there any alternative???

If not, can I make my own vegan cheese?

Please dont tell me to suck it up and eat pizza w/o cheese, I'll do that if there are no other options...

Answer 1

Hi, I dont know if you would have these ingredients at home to make vegan cheese, but maybe keep the recipe for in the future.

Vegan Recipe

Homemade Vegan Cheese

Ingredients:

soya flour

vegan margarine

yeast extract or yeast flakes

herbs

salt and pepper

Method:

Melt a measured amount of margarine. Measure out the same volume of soya flour, and stir in to the melted marge gradually. Depending on absorbancy, you may need slightly more or less flour. Mix in dried herbs and yeast extract or flakes to taste (experiment with the flavourings - I tend to use basil and oregano, and sometimes a little tomato puree), and salt and pepper to taste.

Press into a greased container (perhaps the margarine tub), cool and refrigerate. Firm margarine will give you a hard cheeze for grating or slicing, and soft margarine will give you a spreading cheeze.

Answer 2

You can try grinding up some tofu and sprinkling it with nutritional yeast (it's highly nutritious and tastes like cheese).  The tofu will give your pizza some texture and the nutritional yeast will give it the flavor.  Typically, you'll find nutritional yeast at health food stores and grocery co-ops.

Answer 3

u can buy soy cheese

Answer 4

If you have tofu around, you can make a ricotta-style "cheese."  You can really sprinkle it on, but you can putdollops of it on here and there.  Here are a couple of recipes:

Basil-Tofu Ricotta:

1 lb firm tofu, pressed

2 tsp lemon juice

1 clove garlic, minced

1/4 tsp salt

dash ground black pepper

Handful of fresh basil leaves, finely chopped (10 or so)

2 tsp olive oil

1/4 c nutritional yeast

In a large bowl, mush the tofu up with your hand until it's crumbly.  Add the lemon juice, garlic, salt, pepper and basil.  Mush with your hands again, squeezing through your fingers for 2-5 minutes.  Add the olive oil and stir with a fork.  Add the nutritional yeast and mix all the ingredients well.  Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.

(You could leave out the nutritional yeast if you don't have it or don't like it.  Also, you could sub some dried basil if you don't have fresh.)

Cashew Ricotta:

1/2 c raw cashew pieces

1/4 c fresh lemon juice

2 Tbsp olive oil

2 cloves fresh garlic, pressed or minced

1 lb firm tofu, drained and crumbled

1 1/2 tsp dried basil

1 1/2 tsp salt

In a food processor, blend together the cashews, lemon juice, olive oil and garlic until a thick creamy paste forms.  Add the crumbled tofu to the food processor until the mixture is thick and well-blended.  Blend in the basil and salt.

The second one is REALLY good.

I actually really like pizza without the cheese.  You get to taste the sauce so much better.  The only problem is that the toppings tend to fall off...

Answer 5

I actually order pizza - with no cheese on it - that is called "margaretta pizza" and ask for no cheese.  Easy to make yourself.

Olive oil

1/2 lb. plum (Roma) tomatoes, chopped in 1/2″ pieces

1 clove garlic, crushed and finely chopped

1/2 tsp. salt

Pizza tomato sauce (homemade or store bought)

1 12″ uncooked crust (you can buy raw dough from most grocery stores, or make your own                    

6 fresh basil leaves cut into julienne strips

extra virgin olive oil

Put the olive oil, tomatoes, garlic, and salt in bowl.  Marinate while making dough.  Brush dough crust lightly with olive oil.

Tomato sauce first, add the tomato on top.  Drizzle with olive oil. Bake in preheated 500F oven on pizza stone for 8 to 10 minutes or until crust is golden brown.  

Remove from oven and top with then basil (or put it on in the last few minutes of cooking - I like that better- personal taste)

Cool for a few minutes - you got pizza with no cheese that is actually very good.

If you don't want to make your own cheese - and you can't get the vegan cheese - a really good alternative that I think you might actually like.

Answer 6

If I have no vegan cheese I like to go all out on the sauces. I like to use a thinck tomatoe paste, mix it with some herbs and spices, basil, cracked black pepper, garlic, oragano etc. loaded the pizza with yummy veggies (what ever you like) and some big black olives. If you have enough toppings on there you wont even notice the cheese isn't there. :)

Answer 7

tofu cheese is a tofu product in the vegetarian(only about 3.00,maybe you can buy it yourself) section

Answer 8

I eat amy's vegan pizza and its good at $8 for two. I think they use soy cheese. But if you want to make soy cheese yourself.. this is a simple recipe

http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/dai...

but I don't think it'll taste anything like cheese..

There are some other recipes but i think you're better off buying the soy cheese or soy cheese sprinkles. Top the pizza with grilled veggies and add sprinkles

Answer 9

Cashew cheese!!!

- 2/3 cup cashews

- 1/2 cup water

-1/4 cup chopped bell pepper

-1/4 of an onion

-1/4 cup yeast flakes

-2 or 3 cloves garlic

-3 tbsp lemon juice

-2 tbsp soy sauce

-1 tbsp sesame oil

-Salt to taste

Put it in a food processor and blend your heart out. If it ends up too watery, add more nuts or veggies. If it's too thick, add water. It's SO good on pizza.

Or, just have a tomato pie! Yummy with just sauce and garlic.

Answer 10

Switch and make a calzone instead. Toss in some of the ricotta from one of the recipes if you want. It'd be good plain, too.

Answer 11

I order Veggie NO CHEESE Pizza all the time when I go out. It's yummy too. I'm allergic to dairy.

Answer 12

well you cant really make vegan cheese pizza without vegan cheese...you could try like cooking it then putting hummus or something on it afterwards but really you need vegan cheese