Vegan Pizza Grilled Cheese
Vegan grilled cheese with marinara, the best tofu ricotta and basil. All crispy, hot and amazing.
Servings: 3 Sandwiches
Ingredients
- 1/2 Block Extra firm tofu
- 1-2 Cloves Garlic
- 2 Tbsp. Nutritional yeast
- 2 tsp. Olive oil
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 2 Tbsp. Lemon juice
- Pinch of black pepper
- 3/4 C. Marinara sauce
- 1/4 C. Fresh basil
- 6 Slices Crusty bread, I used Sourdough
- 1/4 C. Vegan butter,room temperature (I used Earth Balance)
Instructions
- First, place the tofu in a paper towel or kitchen towel, and squeeze it over the sink to get as much liquid out as you can. It will crumble, but no worries, you will be crumbling it anyways.
- Once you have squeezed as much liquid out as you can, crumble the tofu into a food processor or blender. Then add the garlic(1 or 2 cloves depending on how much you like garlic), the nutritional yeast, olive oil, salt, lemon juice and pepper.
- Process for a minute or so, scraping down the sides as needed until it is smooth but with a little texture so it looks like ricotta cheese. Taste and adjust seasoning.
- Now, take two slices of bread, spread one slice of bread with the vegan ricotta mixture, the other slice with marinara and a few pieces of basil. Then put the sandwich together.
- Next, heat a non stick pan on medium high.
- Then spread one side of the sandwich with vegan butter. Then place butter side down in the pan.
- Spread the other side of the sandwich with vegan butter. Cook on one side for 3-5 minutes until nice and brown and crusty. Reducing heat as needed. Flip and cook for a few more minutes until the whole sandwich is brown and crisp and hot and delicious.
- Serve immediately.