Pizza - who is not familiar with it? Everyone likes her. And it turns out especially chic if cooked in the home kitchen, with fresh products and with a soul. If you ask anyone who has tried this dish: what pizza consists of and what are its most famous components, then most likely this question will not perplex anyone. Who does not know that pizza is known for having a base of dough, tomatoes or tomato sauce and cheese. The filling can be different, as well as the method of preparing the dough and the whole product.
What if there is no cheese?
Agree, sometimes it happens that you want to try pizza, but there is one obstacle - there is no cheese. How to replace cheese in pizza in this case? Theoretically, this ingredient can be missed from the recipe and any sauce can be used instead: mushroom, tomato or cream. Therefore, this obstacle - and not an obstacle at all, when you want fragrant homemade cakes. Pizza without cheese will turn out no worse, and the pleasure of it will be no less.
Quick Change Options
Culinary experts say that, in principle, you can use whipped mass of eggs and sour cream with the addition of aromatic herbs and spices for pouring. To solve the question of how to replace cheese in pizza, it was experimentally found that cottage cheese would also be a good substitute. It melts perfectly when baking. You can sprinkle pizza on top of them, as if you had hard cheese in your hands. But before using such a cheese substitute, it must be seasoned and must be salted.
And here's another option for replacing cheese in pizza. It can be a home-made product based on cottage cheese and eggs. In fact, you get tasty and healthy homemade cheese, albeit processed. And the cooked product, complemented by a similar ingredient, will not be considered pizza without cheese. True, for the production of this cheese and egg mass it will take some amount of time.
Homemade Cheese Recipe
Before you cook it, make sure you have these ingredients:
- water - two liters;
- a kilogram of cottage cheese (fat is not important);
- butter - 50 and more grams (up to 200);
- raw egg;
- soda - a teaspoon.
Cooking Technology:
- Milk must be brought to a boil and then put all the cottage cheese in it. Stir the cottage cheese and continue to boil it in milk for about twenty minutes. Put the finished cheese on a sieve and drain the whey. You can use clean gauze, folded in several layers.
- We put on a stove a good non-stick pan with a thick bottom and sides. We put in it oil and curd (rather cheese) mass, add salt and, adding an egg, mix.
- Now pour the entire rate of soda into the pan, and our cheese begins to melt. Do not forget to constantly stir it so that the soda spreads throughout the cheese.
- When the mass begins to boil and melt, wait about five or ten minutes. Now grease any form suitable for such a volume of the resulting cheese, butter or vegetable. Lay out the mass and let it cool.
- You can use this as an additive to pizza, or as an independent snack.
Pizza recipes
Well, now that it has become known how to replace cheese in pizza, it's time to make this pizza. We bring to your attention simple and tasty recipes. The basis for the further preparation of this baking may be different. There are base options: from yeast dough, from puff pastry and from kefir dough. But the fillings are great variety. But such a simple recipe for pizza in the oven is one of the win-win options.
Let's start with the products:
- base yeast dough - 300 grams;
- vegetable oil - for frying;
- chicken meat (any) - 150 grams;
- do not forget about salt;
- fresh champignons - 200 grams;
- tomato sauce (ketchup or plain pasta) - three large spoons;
- seasoning;
- onion - medium size.
Cooking step by step
We make a simple recipe for pizza in the oven a reality:
- Rinse the mushrooms and remove the dark parts from them. Chop or split each champignon into four pieces.
- Chop the onion as you like best.
- Heat a skillet and pour a little oil. Put mushrooms in the oil. At first they will give the juice away, but do not stop and fry them until the mushroom moisture has completely evaporated. When the liquid is gone, add onions to the mushrooms and, having salted the entire contents of the pan, bring it to a golden color.
- Fry the chicken fillet in vegetable oil for three minutes on each side. No need to worry about it not being cooked inside. Everything will be perfectly fried while cooking pizza in the oven. After roasting the chicken, cool the fillet and cut into cubes.
- Roll out the dough as thin as possible and place on a baking sheet. So that the product does not burn and does not stick, you can use oiled parchment or baking paper. We lay the base cake on it.
- Carefully coat the rolled base with tomato sauce or pasta.
- Spread the mushrooms and onions evenly.
- On top, no less evenly, are cubes of chicken meat.
- Sprinkle with grated homemade cheese, the recipe of which is given above, or salted cottage cheese with seasonings, if you do not like pizza with melted cheese.
- Preheat the oven and put the pizza inside, and after fifteen minutes we extract the fragrant and delicate pastries.
Lean pizza at home
But such a lean home-made pizza can be served when you are fasting. Also, this option is good for those who follow their figure. The dough for this pizza is prepared yeast, without the addition of eggs and milk.
On the finished rolled base, coated with a mixture of lean mayonnaise and ketchup, put pickles, chopped finely. Canned mushrooms (champignons) are cut into slices and, spreading over the cucumbers, we again coat the filling with mayonnaise. We install the product in a hot oven for fifteen minutes. After the specified time, take out the pizza and sprinkle with finely chopped dill on top. Done! Enjoy your meal!