Unreal, lookalike pizza
I had been working hard all week cleaning my new apartment, so I decided (at the spur of the moment) to give myself a little treat for breakfast yesterday. I used whatever was at hand to create a (mock) vegan pizza, which I call "peetsa". (The photo is of a regular one, which I got off the internet.)
What I did was so simple that I can't even call it a recipe, so (for the lack of a better word) I'll call it an UNrecipe. Here's what I did.
I used a flatbread ("khubs" in local parlance) but any flatbread (e.g. pita) would do. I spread some Marmite (which I had brought back from South Africa with me) on it, followed by hummus and tomato paste. I arranged slivers of olive on top and drizzled olive oil over it, popped it in the microwave to warm it slightly and, voila, my creation was complete and ready to be consumed. I did dice a fresh tomato (skin-on) but didn't use it for the topping; I had it on the side instead.
There are endless ways in which you could tweak the basic idea. You could lightly toast the flatbread, replace the hummus with grated or spreadable (vegan) cheese, replace the olives with pickles (e.g. lemon) etc. The sky is the limit.
As far as cheese goes, I dislike the oiliness and gooeyness of melted nonvegan hard cheese that gives pizza its signature look. I will experiment with meltable vegan hard cheese in due course.
Cutting the peetsa into slices proved messy. You really need a pizza cutter for that (which I didn't have but will get).
