- That's the tip of the month for me this week.
This week?
Tip of the month for me this week.
(slurping)
Today on the Edgy Veg we are going to attempt
a Pizza Hut style stuffed crust pizza.
(upbeat music)
About a month ago I did a poll on my Instagram
asking you guys what fast-food copycat recipes
you guys wanted, so today we are doing
a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza
and I have a special guest today.
- Hello!
- So James is going to help me.
We haven't done this before.
We're going to do it completely on the fly
and he's here because I hate kneading
and rolling out pizza dough.
So that's your one job.
- My one job?
Okay.
- Other than like telling me what toppings
I should put on the pizza.
I guess I'll give you that too.
So you have two jobs.
- Nice.
- You think we'll nail it?
- Yeah, oh I love this.
I'm all over the pizza making.
(laughs)
- The thing with vegan pizza is
you have to have the right vegan cheese.
- Yeah, I'm a real stickler for the mozzarella.
We need to have good, good mozzarella.
- I bought three different types of mozzarella.
- Oh!
- So stay tuned for that.
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Let's pick it right here, right now.
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We have to do that one.
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Okay so we have to do this one
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Alright guys, now that we have that out of the way,
let's see if we can make a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza.
The key to any good pizza is it good pizza sauce.
I just had this can organic tomato sauce in my pantry.
So I'm just gonna open that up.
And I'm just gonna use some spices
to give it more of a like robust flavor
instead of just pouring tomato sauce on a pizza.
Just gonna add that to this pot here.
To the tomato sauce I'm going to add
a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder
and a quarter teaspoon of onion powder.
Half of a teaspoon of basil.
Half of a teaspoon of oregano
and then I have a pinch of chili flakes.
You can omit this if you don't like any heat.
A quarter teaspoon of salt
and I have quarter teaspoon of pepper.
I'm gonna give this a good mix
and I'm gonna throw it onto the stove
and cook that for about 30 minutes.
I'm cooking.
I forgot I have to add a half of a teaspoon of lemon also.
Now I'm cooking.
Along with the lemon I also forgot to add
a quarter cup of water so I'm off to a good start today.
Alright, let's talk about what's going on this pizza.
I made the pizza dough from my cookbook.
You can get the recipe for that if you have my cookbook.
It's a pretty basic dough recipe I just use herbs as well
and a couple chili flakes in that.
So I made that last night
and then I couldn't find vegan pepperoni anywhere
so I got these Gusta sausages.
So I'm just going to slice them
so that they look like little tiny pepperonis.
This is bubbling, so I'm gonna turn that down.
- You wanna mix this around since it's bubbling?
- Look, he's helping.
I cut up these green peppers.
I don't usually like green peppers on pizza
but apparently a meat lovers deluxe has green peppers on it.
So James requested those.
Because I'm kind of doing like a meat lover style,
I'm also using the Tofurky meatless ground round.
So I think that'll add some nice texture to the pizza
and really make it look really nice and full.
Now for the cheeses.
Hang tight, this is gonna be a wild ride
to figure out what cheese we should use.
Now, for the stuffed crust,
I couldn't find any cheese blocks that were vegan
and I couldn't find any vegan cheese strings.
But I found these mozzarella slices by Earth Island
so I'm just going to cut them into
I guess things that look like cheese strings
and then use that around the border of the pizza.
And then for the cheese on the actual pizza,
I have two options here.
I have this Gusta grating block,
which I think is good for melting?
I've also got this no buffalo vegan mozzarella.
So I'm gonna grate both of these
and throw them on the pizza and hopefully they melt
and kind of disperse like normal cheese does.
So we're gonna give this a try and just see what happens.
It could look exactly like a Pizza Hut pizza
or it could look nothing like a Pizza Hut pizza.
I don't know, I've never done this before.
Alright, we're going to preheat our oven
and we are going to preheat it with
the pizza stone in the oven.
You want to do this because if you put a cold pizza stone
in a hot oven, it will crack.
That's not what you want with your expensive pizza stone.
So just put the stone in the oven, preheat the oven to 425,
and you are good to go.
Now that the oven is preheating,
we are going to try and get that cheese string look
with these mozzarella style slices.
I don't know how many of these I'm going to need.
I'm going to start with one package
and I guess we'll just find out in a sec.
How I think this is going to work is
I'm going to slice them into like cheese string like shapes.
Oh yeah, it stays together!
Yay!
I think this might work.
I have to take care of the sauce
so I'm going to make my trusty manservant
do the cheese gratings.
I hate grating.
- Did you just call it cheese crating?
- Cheese grating.
- Am I gonna put it in a crate of some kind?
- That's the slowest cheese grating I've ever seen.
That's nice.
Oh, so good at cheese grating.
- Yeah.
Oh Luigi, you want some mozzarella?
Hey from Maggio, oh.
- Jamie there's literally nothing Italian about Pizza Hut.
- Oh yeah, that's true.
Okay.
Alright so we're gonna grate this second mozzarella
and we're gonna see which one's better.
But this one looks pretty cool.
- [Candice] Grate that cheese for me baby.
A-ha A-ha.
- Well this looks really good.
- Are you grading the wrapper too?
- I hope not.
- Three.
Two.
One.
Cheesy mozzarella.
Well that was not an Italian accent.
Oh, cheesy mozzarella.
- So we're gonna make two pizzas.
One with the mozzarella style
and one with the grating block.
But there's one rule in our house.
I don't roll out the dough.
- So this is on me now?
- This is on you.
- This is not gonna be graceful.
There is gonna be nothing graceful about this whatsoever.
And now that we've cut that dough in half,
I think it's pretty good size
and now I'm going to knead it
and then I need it to be two inches larger
than our pizza stone.
- Alright, we've got our pizza stone.
It's been getting super hot in the oven.
We're going to grease it.
Alright, now we're gonna take that dough, pop it on here.
Be very careful with this.
It's very, very hot.
You don't want to burn yourself.
Alright so my general rule here with pizza is
once you have the pizza on the pizza stone
you have about two minutes to dress that guy up
and throw him into the oven.
Or else you end up with a soggy pizza.
I'm just gonna add my fake cheese strings
around the edge of the pizza.
And then I'm just gonna fold the edge
over the cheese string.
Well this is definitely not going to
be the prettiest pizza in the world.
Alright so this isn't sticking as well as I'd like,
so I'm going to get some water here.
So I'm just brushing the dough with some water
but it creates almost like a glue.
Fold our crust over.
Alright I learned some things for the next one.
Oop.
Well that burns.
I'm gonna put on the sauce here
and I'm gonna cover a little bit of the seal here
so you can't really see it.
So it's not super obvious.
Now I'm going to brush the edge of the crust
with some olive oil.
That's going to keep it from getting dry.
Alright, let's add our toppings.
I'm going to start with the veggie ground round.
Now, I'm going to add the mushrooms.
Now, let's add some of that veggie sausage.
And some green pepper.
And last but not least the mozzarella cheese.
Alright, now that we have our pizza,
it's dressed, it's ready to go.
We're gonna toss it into the oven.
I'm gonna set my timer to cook the pizza
for about 12 minutes, it could take more
but I definitely want to go in and check it out for 12.
Okay.
So the cheese that James picked,
it looks like it tastes really good
but it didn't really melt.
So we're going to try these second cheese,
the Gusta one, on the second pizza.
- Alright so we have both pizzas.
- We have the one with the cheese that I chose,
which really melted.
And we have the pizza with the cheese that you picked,
which didn't really melt.
It still looks really great
and the cheese on the crust looks awesome.
Which one should we try first?
- Let's try the one that didn't melt.
- Okay, so pick a piece.
I mean the stuff crust looks awesome.
- I'm gonna try the crust first.
- You're gonna try the, okay me too.
(crunching)
Okay, so.
I feel like you're really, really close to me.
There we go.
So the stuff crust is really good.
The thing about vegan cheese is that it hardens too quickly.
- Mm-hmm.
- Right?
- I totally agree.
I wish this cheese was gooier and stayed gooier
but the pizza itself I think tastes really good.
- Yeah, it's a really tasty pizza.
So first pizza definitely a win.
Just the cheese isn't very melty.
Would still definitely eat it.
- Yeah.
- Like somebody made this for me,
it would be the bomb and so yummy.
Okay, so I'm really eyeing the second pizza.
- Yeah can we try that already?
- So I have to share with you?
- Yes.
- Here you go, monsieur.
- Oh, this is a good piece.
- What do you think I'd give you a subpar piece of pizza?
What kind of wife do you think I am?
Look at the cheese on this.
- This looks really good.
It's like the cheese is nice and oily.
This looks legit.
Oh yeah, this tastes like regular mozzarella.
- It's so good because it's gooier,
it adds a nice moisture to the pizza
whereas the other one was a bit dry
because the cheese wasn't very gooey.
- It's oilier, like it has that like natural cheese oiliness
which is really, really good.
I wouldn't have believed that this was not regular cheese.
This is definitely carnivore approved.
- Yay!
We are going to keep eating this pizza
but if you like this recipe make sure
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Let us know in the comment section below
what fast-food copycat recipe you want us to do next.
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- Alright, we hope you guys have an awesome week.
We are going to eat our two pans of pizza
and we'll see you next time.
Bye!
- Bye!
- Oh!
And if you want the recipe for the pizza dough
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