If you don’t have a vegan pizza on your pizzeria menu, you’re missing out on an entire subset of loyal customers. In this recipe video, courtesy of U.S. Pizza Team member Leah Scurto of PizzaLeah in Windsor, California, PMQ’s Brian Hernandez shows you how to make the Little Sur, showcasing vegan mozzarella cheese from Follow Your Heart.
Ingredients:
14 oz. dough ball
6 oz. Follow Your Heart Vegan Mozzarella Shreds
3 oz. pizza sauce
2 oz. portobello mushrooms, sliced to 1/8” thick
1 oz. whole roasted garlic cloves in EVOO with salt and pepper
3 oz. roasted red bell pepper, skinned and julienned ¼” thick
2 oz. grape tomatoes, sliced in half or quartered
½ oz. chopped green onions
Directions:
Roast red bell peppers and garlic cloves in EVOO with salt and pepper. After roasting, remove skin from bell peppers. Stretch pizza dough to 14” pie. Spread pizza sauce and vegan mozzarella shreds. Top with mushrooms in radial pattern and add roasted peppers, garlic cloves, grape tomatoes and green onions. Bake at 550 degrees for about 7-10 minutes or until crust is on darker side of golden-brown.
Additional reading: How to increase your vegan and vegetarian pizza sales