Ferngully Pizza

If you couldn’t guess from the environmentally themed ’90s animation reference, this is a vegan pizza. It’s important to make a good vegan pizza, and I love this one. Many chefs think vegan and say, “We’ll do the same thing we always do and move on.” You’ll get tomatoes, veg, portobello mushrooms—sometimes roasted squash. That’s boring. So this was the challenge: “How do I make a rich, savory, meaty, vegan pizza without relying on tomato?”

When you do pizza without tomato it’s usual