Vegan Pizza with Red Peppers

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Source: my kitchen!

 

a quick and delicious pizza made with vegan cheese, and a tasty home made tomato sauce

 

Servings:         3-4

Prep time:       15 minutes

Cook time:      45 minutes

Total time:       1 hour

 

Ingredients:

1 batch of pizza dough
1 block of "Follow Your Heart" Vegan Gourmet Mozzarella
1 Pint of Cherry Tomatoes
1 28oz. can of diced tomatoes
1-2 red peppers
1 head of garlic
olive oil
vegan sugar
basil

 

Directions:

Begin by chopping up your garlic and toss it into a pan with some olive oil. Let this cook for 2-3 minutes, enough to let the garlic soften up but not burn. Meanwhile, cut your tomatoes into small slices and then add it to your garlic. Add about 1 tsp. of vegan sugar, this help cut the acidity of the raw tomatoes. Let this simmer for about 10-15 minutes, and then add your can of diced tomatoes.

Chiffonade your basil, and add this to the sauce. Also, add any salt/pepper and other spices to your taste. Let this cook down for a while, so you don't get left with too much watery liquid, this might take another 15 minutes or so.

While the sauce simmer, cut up your red pepper, and any other veggies you want to add as a topping for your pizza. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

Roll out your dough, add sauce, grate the vegan gourmet cheese, add topping and place pizza into oven.

For baking pizzas with the FYH Vegan Gourmet cheese, I found that it works best baking it at about 400 degrees for 12-13 minutes.

Your cheese will look like it is starting to melt, but still in pieces and not really melting together.

The trick here is take a flat spatula, and slightly smoosh the cheese on your pizza down, and then set your over to broil for about 4 minutes. Keep an eye on your pizza once you do this, you don't want it to burn. But this is the best way to get vegan cheese to actually melt like regular cheese.