Crust magic, look at it oozing out of there.
(Dramatic music)
All right guys, we have been veganizing
all kinds of fast food.
And I asked what you guys wanted to see next,
so today we're doing Pizza Hut.
And not only a regular Pizza Hut pizza,
but a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza.
Hey guys, I'm Candice Hutching,
I have seen a lot of really bad pizza,
a lot of really bad vegan pizza
and I wanted to try to make something
that I haven't had since I was probably 12 years old,
which is Pizza Hut, you know the like
nice, thick dough and crust that's like really oily.
It's like a deep fried pizza pretty much.
But my friends at Gusta sent me their Italiano cheese
and their peperoni so I thought,
why not use this to try and make the best pizza ever.
When it comes to Pizza Hut pizza
and why it's different than any other
pizza chain out there in the world.
I did a bunch of research to find out
what it is that makes the Pizza Hut pizza
a Pizza Hut pizza.
The secret to the perfect pizza pan pizza
is that it is pressed into a well-oiled pan.
And then it's sprayed with like a butter-flavored spray
before it goes into the oven.
So what I've done is, not only am I going to use these
Gusta products, but I also found this coconut oil
with non-dairy butter flavor.
So what I've done is I transferred that
into this spray bottle, so when we dress the pizza,
I'm actually gonna spray it with this
to get that crispy, crackly dough and hopefully it works.
For the actual stuffed crust,
I'm going to use this cheese, both on top of the pizza,
but then also I'm going to cut it into little
cheese string like slices
and I'm going to stick that into the crust.
So you can use any of your favorite vegan cheeses,
it just has- you have to pick a cheese that does melt
and this is why I love the Gusta stuff
because it melts, it like spreads, it becomes gooey.
And so far, of the cheeses that I've tried,
this one has been my favorite for making pizzas.
And I grated it nice and finely.
The other thing that I have found online,
to make it easier for you to achieve
that like pizzeria style pizza.
It is if you take a pizza stone
and put it in the oven and heat it up
and then actually cook on top of that stone,
not putting the pizza on top of that stone,
but I'm going to make the pizza in this cast iron pan,
but I'm going to set that onto the stone.
And what that does is it gives you that nice,
even browning that like a pizzeria style pizza has.
So you can use whatever pizza dough you want.
I've made this, I have a couple vegan pizza dough recipes,
I have one in my cook book and one on my website,
so you can use your favorite one,
or you can use this one, but in terms of the flour,
according to the internet,
the best flour for this type of pizza,
is to use a bread flour, so definitely use a bread flour.
Let it rise four hours, outside the fridge.
- Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard enough.
- That's true, that is very, very true.
So I am just greasing that
before I go in with my cornmeal.
All right, now we are going to roll out our pizza dough.
Smell that yeast?
Mmm!
Think I'm going to make some bread today.
I have so much pizza dough prepped for this that
I think I'm gonna make some garlic knots later.
- Ohh!
- I like to be over-prepared when I do this,
especially with something like pizza dough,
because if I screw up,
we have to wait another like 24 hours.
I have just, you know, punch this down, let it rise.
I'm only gonna need half of this,
so I'm just gonna cut that in half.
And then cover this guy up
because if he's not being used,
he can just rise until we need him.
Full disclosure, I actually despise rolling out pizza dough.
I think we learned this in the dill pickle pizza video,
that I just, I don't like it.
Oh, good.
For the cheese that goes inside the stuffed crust,
I'm just going to take the Gusta cheese loaf
and cut it into like cheese strings,
like imagine those cheese strings you had as a kid.
So I'm just gonna cut little rectangles of vegan cheese
for our stuffed crust pizza.
It doesn't have to be like perfect or even uniform,
just as long as they're relatively the same.
I would definitely avoid using shredded cheese for this
because you do want that pull apart ooey gooey cheese
when you do your stuffed crust.
So shredded cheese, it's just
it's not going to have that same effect.
All right, so I've stretched out my dough.
I'm just going to lay it into the pan.
And just kind of pull it up and over,
so that I have a little bit of a lip.
So that I have something to fold the cheese with.
As uniform as you can get it, the better obviously.
I feel like with anything,
the first one is always going to be
kind of like a right off, but we'll see.
So I'm going to lay the cheese all the way around,
and then I'm going to wet my fingers
and pull the dough over the cheese.
So I have a little bowl of water here.
And I'm just going to run it along.
I would say like a quarter of the pizza at a time.
And then just fold it over and smoosh it down.
Fold it over, smoosh it down.
It's really quite simple.
I remember when they came out with this,
everyone like freaked out,
I was like you could very easily do this at home.
- Isn't the power of fast food
that you don't have to do it at home?
- That's true. Unless you're vegan,
then you have to make everything at home.
(Both laughing)
and that's the tea.
Now we're going to take a fork
and just kind of run it all along the bottom
of the pizza crust.
And this will prevent any air bubbles from forming
and bubbling up.
For the pizza sauce, I made the Pizza Hut style pizza sauce.
So this is pretty much just water and tomato Paste
and then spices like rosemary and basil, oregano.
You can use whatever pizza sauce is your favorite,
I just wanted it to be as authentic as possible.
So I cooked this up and let it simmer for an hour.
Okay now that we have our, you know,
our cheese inside of our dough,
we've scored our pan, we are going to take
this butter flavored coconut oil
and just spray the crust part.
I mean you could also, again, use a pastry brush
and I thought this was going to be more spray.
Oh, there we go.
I'm gonna have to use a pastry brush.
(Both laugh)
I thought it would spray more,
but its more of a stream.
This is real life, when experimenting,
this is just what happens sometimes.
And just coat the edge with the butter flavor.
Like I said, this is non-dairy butter flavor,
it's just coconut oil.
I've greased the outside,
now I'm just going to add all the toppings,
so I'm going to add the sauce.
And I think today, I'm gonna make a couple different pizzas.
(Dramatic Music)
So I'm going to toss this guy into the oven
and bake it for, I mean every ovens different,
I'm gonna start with 12 minutes,
we'll start with 10 minutes and check on it
and see how it's melting,
if we need it to melt a little more, we'll go to 12.
If we need it to melt a little more, we'll go to 16.
- It looks pretty wild.
- This is crazy.
So I think- so it looks like maybe the crust
is a little too brown here,
so I think maybe we added a little too much oil,
but let's- this looks freakin'- look at this cheese!
I have this industrial pizza cutter that my friend gave me
because we used to do pizza nights all the time.
(Upbeat music)
Okay, so I made two pizzas.
This one came out a little bit darker,
so I just adjusted the rack
and made it a little bit lower for the second pizza.
So we have this one, which is a little bit more doughy.
It's a little bit lighter,
but still we're still getting
the like melted cheese deliciousness
that like ooey, gooey stuffed crust magic.
Look at it oozing out of there.
For the stuffed crust part itself,
it does run, you're still getting
that like ooey, gooey-ness,
but it is a little bit different than
traditional, real cheese
because its not- it's dairy-free cheese.
So there are going to be differences.
But look at this pizza, look at this peperoni.
Like this looks like dairy cheese,
but it's not, this is where we've come.
I think I love this company because they're Canadian
and they make the best pizza cheese, I think anyway.
So let's taste test our Pizza Hut style stuffed crust pizza
with Gusta peperoni and Gusta cheese.
Oh my god.
It's so good, look at that.
And then we've got the cheese in there.
Ugh, so good.
- I love pizza; I'm so excited.
Mmm, it's definitely like thick crust like Pizza Hut,
which is so good, especially if your have like
a dippy sauce, like some kind of
habanero ranch or something.
That's me blocking a blog post.
(Both laughing)
- I'll make a link to that in the description box below,
along with the recipe to this.
People need to start using this in commercial pizza places.
Thank you to Gusta for sending me these products to test.
Thank you to you guys for sending me the suggestion.
Let me know guys, which restaurant
you want me to try and veganize next,
if you have a favorite dish you want me to try and veganize.
Leave that in the comment section below.
Check out Gusta, I'm gonna leave a link to their products
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I'll see you next time, bye!
Oh my god!