Classic Italian-American Cuisine, Part 1 of 2 – Detroit-Style Vegan Pizza

“Hallo everybody. My name is Dave, and today I’m going to be showing you how to make a Detroit-Style Pizza. First, we’re going to be making our sauce. Next, we’re going to be making our dough for our pizza. So, first we’re going to get some water, about 46ºC (115ºF), and pour it in our bowl. Yeast. Maple syrup. The maple syrup and the warm water is going to help activate the yeast very well.”

“I have a piece of dough here that I’ve been proofing for a couple of hours, and let’s take a look at it. It’s about doubled in size now.” “The second proof will probably stretch it out to the edges of the steel pan. And then pour the rest of the olive oil on it. Make sure the whole dough is covered in the olive oil. And when that’s ready, we’re going to cover it with some saran wrap for a second proof.”

“We’re going to cook up our vegan chicken strips with our vegan barbecue sauce. Turn on our stove and start at medium heat. Let our pan heat up. I toss in our vegan chicken strips, and we’re going to be using about half of our sauce. And then the rest is for the pizza.” “And there we have our vegan barbecue chicken strips. Now that our dough has been proofed the second time we’re going to get ready to just put all our toppings on there and bake it.”

“One of the last things we need is going to be our vegan mozzarella shreds. All right. And once that’s all on, we can get our vegan barbecue sauce. We’re going to spread this sauce like racer stripes, so put three straight lines of sauce on there. Once we put it in the oven at 260ºC (500ºF) everything is just going to get cooked very thoroughly. All right. And now it’s ready to just be popped in the oven, and in 20 minutes, we’ll check on it and it should be good to go.”

“You can really smell the vegan barbecue sauce on this. So this is quite fragrant. The vegan cheese has melted really well. The vegan barbecue strips seem very well incorporated onto the crust and the vegan cheese. Looks really good right now. All right. I’m going to transfer it onto a plate. Some basil. We have our Detroit-Style Vegan Pizza. Let’s have a taste. It’s really good!”