Sunday, July 17, 2011

Pizza with cashew cheese

There are some fake cheeses that I quite like on pizza (in the US, we liked Follow Your Heart mozzarella and Teese, and here in Australia we've had good results with Cheezly mozzarella). But now that we don't have a vegan friendly store close by, these days I have been experimenting with homemade cheeses for topping pizza.

I had some decent results combining pureed silken tofu and cashews, flavoured with miso and nutritional yeast, and sometimes some lemon juice or vinegar. But one day I had no tofu and just went with straight cashews with a little nutritional yeast and a lot of salt. I used this as the bottom layer on a potato pizza with rosemary, and it was fantastic. (I will probably keep experimenting when it comes to traditional tomato based pizzas, but for a white pizza this is perfect.)

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