
Among the products we sampled, our testers found it to be the most like cheese in appearance, with a taste like a strong cheddar. Potato starch, maize starch and yeast extract form the backbone of Ilchester Vegan Melting Mature. Sub Tyne Chease Original for the goat cheese, and use cashew cream in place of garlic cream - voila: You’ve got a delicious vegan pizza. It would work well even with toppings as strong as preserved lemon and garlic cream - like on this Grandaddy Purp recipe. How we’d recommend using it: The intensity of Tyne Chease Original can handle big, bold flavours. Our tasters found its saltiness divisive: Some loved it some really didn’t. Tyne Chease Original block doesn’t compare itself directly to any distinct cheese style, but we found this spreadable, cashew-based cheese to have a tangy, nutty flavour - a bit like Parmesan. We’d give it a go on our Tomato and Ricotta Pizza. Mozarellie would work quite well in place of ricotta. How we’d recommend using it: Given its smooth texture, Kinda Co. Mozarellie did have a milky, creamy flavour that was very nice. While the overall taste was quite mild, Kinda Co. Its smooth and shiny texture - which turned into a clay-like consistency when heated - reminded us of hummus. This spreadable cheese comes in a jar, making it quite different from a fresh ball of mozzarella, but easy to use as a pizza topping. How we’d recommend using it: Use Mouse's Favorite Camembert as a stand-in for brie or Camembert in our crispy roast potato and truffle pizza recipe, or our bread wreath with baked Camembert and cranberry. Earthy and buttery, Mouse’s Favorite Camembert would be equally at home on a cheeseboard as it would be on a pizza. There’s an umami flavour and a salty kick that our reviewers found reminiscent of Marmite. Appearance and flavour-wise, its rind and soft creamy centre almost fooled us. This cultured cashew cheese looks remarkably similar to real Camembert. We didn’t rank the cheeses because we thought they all had something to offer, but you can find our overall favorites at the end of the list.
CASHEW CHEESE RECIPE PIZZA PRO
We can’t say we’d recommend trying that many cheeses all at once ever again, but we did come to some useful conclusions - and we came up with some vegan cheese pro tips along the way. Pizz as were baked in Ooni Koda 16 ovens at 425 ° C for 60 to 90 seconds: The same treatment we’d give any dairy cheese. Each cheese topped a thin, 30-centimeter dough base - we used our dough balls - with a simple sauce made from canned tomatoes and salt. We tasted all the cheeses raw and cooked (on a pizza). In these blind taste tests, participants scored the cheeses on flavour, texture, body and meltability. Our team in Austin, TX (where Ooni has its US headquarters) did the same, surveying eight different cheeses available in the US. We did the legwork, gathering a band of colleagues and pizza lovers from various departments - marketing, culinary, operations, creative - at our global headquarters in Broxburn, Scotland to prod, poke, taste and test pizzas topped with eight different vegan cheeses available on the UK market. So which of these options makes for the best pizza? Whether you’re vegan or dairy-free by choice or by circumstance, it can be hard to select a brand or cheese type. Options include chickpea cheese, rice starch cheese and cashew cheese - just to name a few. The downside? The vegan cheese section can be a bit bewildering.

CASHEW CHEESE RECIPE PIZZA PLUS
The plus side of a growing vegan cheese industry? There’s more to choose from than a few sad bags of crayon-like shreds. Read on to learn which products passed the Ooni melt test (and which fell flat). Recently, we surveyed the plant-based landscape to find the most pizza-friendly vegan cheese options. Dairy-free cheeses have improved a lot over the last few years - and they’ve also become more readily available. If you’re vegan cheese-curious (for health or sustainability reasons), or if you haven’t tried non-dairy substitutes for a while, you’re in luck.

Dismissed as gluey, waxy or just plain gross, they sit in the “don’t even go there” section of the dairy cooler.

Dairy-free cheeses have had a bad rap for a long time.
