Season 1, Episode 5: Pizza Made from Scratch (Vegan)

Who doesn’t love pizza? To your surprise pizza can also be made vegan! Chef Ilario who is actually an Italian chef will be showing you how to make a typical Italian pizza minus the animal products. Substitution plays a main part in this dish. Instead of adding any eggs or milk we used water and yeast. Which will help with the consistency. The process is rather long as typically pizza dough needs to rise for 1 whole day. However, it can also be done in a way that can self-rise in about 1 hour or so. Sometimes the weather will aid the process, other times, if there is too much heat or humidity the process will be longer. For the cheese you can use any vegan cheese of your choice, we used Mozzarisella . We decided to use spinach, onions, and cherry tomatoes. Of course you can use whatever you like such as mushrooms which tastes amazing! All of the ingredients can be found in any supermarket. The vegan cheese can be found in organic stores and even online stores but it takes a while to ship. Who said vegan was just a lame salad? The music by Exodus so make sure to check them out!
 
Here are the ingredients:
Flour 400 grams
Water 260 grams
Yeast 25 grams
Salt2 TBSP
Sugar 1TSP
Olive Oil 6 TBSP
Cherry Tomatoes –
Spinach 1 bag
Vegan Cheese
Oregano 3 TSP
Tomato Sauce 1 can
Onion Half
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Start by adding one pack of yeast to the water. Then add sugar and mix together. Pour 400 grams of flour in the mixer and add the sugar/yeast mix to it.
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Add salt and olive oil to the mix. Mix it all till it become a little consistent ball .
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Cover the little pizza dough with a towel for 1 hour. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 360 degrees. Add oil in the pan and in the parchment. After 1 hour, expand the dough in the pan.
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Cover the dough again for 10 minutes so it can rest. While you wait, add salt and oregano in the tomato sauce. Now, add the sauce to the dough.
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Put the pizza in the oven for 15 minutes. Start cutting the vegan cheese of your choice, the cherry tomatoes, and the onion. Add the remainder of the sauce on the pizza.
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Add all the topics as much or little as you want! Then put the pizza in the oven for 30-40 minutes. After 40 minutes, this is how awesome your pizza will look.
Enjoy !
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