Cheeseless Pizza - what toppings?

[SuperBunny]

I am (temporarily, I hope) dairy free but want pizza. What can I put on it that won't make me pine too much for all that gooey cheese?

SuperBunny, you can do this!

I went dairy free for a while and I thought I would really miss my cheese (I did, if truth be told). I was also avoiding a whole list of other foods because I was BF'ing and our DD has some confirmed allergies and reactions.

I would make my pizza base at home from scratch. Instead of tomato, I would take a few spoons of olive oil and add finely chopped garlic, rosemary, salt, pepper, oregano to flavour. I would smear this on the pizza instead of tomato.

Toppings - mushrooms, sweet peppers, sweetcorn, artichoke hearts, olives, chicken meat, red onion (much nicer IMO). You will have hysterics - I am fussy about the ordering they would go on in . Onion, sweet pepper, sweetcorn, artichoke hearts and olives, mushrooms on top and sprinkle with extra oregano. Convinced mushroom cooks better Also, try to spread out the ingredients so that there's not much bare space. Tomato slices - cut very thin, pat with kitchen towel to remove as much moisture as possible or it'll be soggy pizza.

I also tried avocado but felt it was a waste of avocado. For a nice salad - avocado, red onion, cucumber, tomato, sprinkle with oregano and dress with olive oil and balsamic vinegar (ratio of 1:2).

Have fun experimenting! I find this sort of diet forces you to realise just how many other options we do have and you'll need to adapt and discover new recipes.

I found that if you get a jar of tomato passata you can spread that over the base, and it prevents it getting too dry and 'bready'; then you can add ham, mushrooms, olives - whatever you like really

What you need is SHEESE

Do you eat fish and shellfish? A marinara (eg prawns, anchovies, tuna) traditionally doesn't have cheese on it anyway.

I agree with Kathy, fish pizza is traditionally cheeseless. Or roasted vegetables - they'll have the moisture and richness of cheese that way. I've made pizza with caramelised onions and it was lovely.

Some ideas:

Loads of caremalised onions (sauteed in slices with olive oil, slat, pepper, garlic and some sugar) and slices of peperoni if you eat that.

Roasted vegetables

parma ham and baby spinach leaves and lots of olive oil and garlic

anchovies, capers, olives on a tomato sauce base

spinach leaves piled on a tomato base with an egg cracked into the centre and baked?

This all sounds great, thank you. Forgot to mention that I am vegetarian so no meat/ fish> Although I do fancy some anchovies...

In desperation, I did look at cheeze (similar to sheese, I think) but it had casein so is still no good.

Will try some of these suggestions. Thank you

there is a dairy free cheese called cheezely, is that the one you mean?
my ds is highly allergic to cow's milk and i have gone dairy free because of breastfeeding and we both eat it. there are a few versions but super melting mozzerella style is best. it's not particularly nice alone but if you grate it then use on pizza it's actually ok, especially nice for french bread pizza btw.
as for toppings - pepperoni is my fave but my ds and oh go mad for tuna, sweetcorn, peppers and slices of mushroom!

my ds always has pizza sans cheese (but not the school one, cos that tastes ok apparently...). Just lots of tomato sauce and the normal toppings work very well. Pizza Express are great at this!

If you're making it yourself, I think cooking for a shorter time is better for the cheeseless - otherwise can be dried out and nasty.

I had a lovely vegan pizza once that had pureed artichoke on top, plus chargrilled peppers and aubergines. Fabulous.