The Case Of The Vegan Mozzarella (Shit Got Weird)

Hello Stretchy-Sticky Vegan Blobs

Ola Orangutans!


You know you're a  vegan newbie when you go ahead and try to make every non-vegan favorite into something vegan. Some vegans even get annoyed by it, but I am all for mock-meat, mock-cheese and veganizing everything, because hey chances are you'll replace some of your dairy and meat with some inspiration, right? Right.

Anyway, pardon my whole annoying  "look what I just veganized" phase. It most likely will be temporary for a few reasons. The number one being that becoming vegan means really having to let go of some things, we can try to make things like them old dairy-meat filled days, but the answer more likely lies in just making new things with vegan ingredients instead of obsessing over recreating .But hey, this is a damn chemistry experiment, and I was no good at chemistry, so this is like a life win for me. So pretend to get excited about it.

I got my basic recipe for this here

So if you want to try this out yourself there is both good news and bad news. Let's start with the good news. It's actually rather quick to make and you don't need too many things. OK, bad news, those 'few things' you need are probably not in your cupboard right now. But thanks to amazon you can have all of them in 5- days.

Aite so let's get at this shall we?

What You Need

2 cups of soaked cashews (soaked for about 2-3 hours)
6 TB of tapioca starch (amazon puppies)
3TB nutrional yeast
1TB sea salt
1TB black pepper
1TB red chili flakes (if you want, you can ditch this)
2TB lemon juice (fresh)
400ml hot water
A large bowl of ice-cold water with salt

See? It doesn't take much.

How To Make

Now all you do is take ALL you ingredients (including the freshly boiled hot water) and dump it into a blender. Now pulverize that stuff real good, don't burn your hands because the blender will be really hot.

After you Blend, shit looks like this

Now dump this milky mess into a pot on a medium flame and keep stirring it for about 10 min. It will start to thicken, and at one point it will really be stretchy-sticky. Keep stirring till you have the consistency of semi-melted mozzarella. Now put of your heat.

Your hard work at stirring always yields  results 

Grab your pot of ice-cold water with salt and scoop out balls of your thickened mozzarella and dump it into the cold water. You can re-shape them in the cold water, but it will most likely still look like white turds floating in a toilet bowl.

Told you it ain't pretty

Now just wait like 30 min for them to firm up, and voila you have your fresh vegan mozzarella balls ready! You can cut them up and put it on pizza, salads, and sandwiches. When you heat it it will melt.

I made pizza with it. I got store-bought vegan pizza base, made my tomato sauce (blended 3 juicy tomatoes and  put it in a pot with salt, pepper, chili flake, brown sugar, basil and oregano) topped it with green peppers, onions and mushrooms and hunks of my mozzarella and baked at 180c for 20 min.

Before Baking

After That Baby is Baked

Mozzarella Notes: Can you live without vegan mozzarella? Hell yes. But it does taste rather nice on pizza. You don't need to put too much, and you must eat it hot.

Now you guys have a stellar-ass Sunday!