Recipe for a ' Healthy Vegan Pizzaz Pizza' with 64 ingredients is a Recipe for Success for Restaurant Trade

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Date: 2008-10-09

To celebrate 64 years of veganism (64 years since Donald Watson founded The Vegan Society and created the word 'Vegan') Foods for Life Nutrition has devised a special birthday healthy vegan 'Pizzaz Pizza' recipe.

Inspired by The Paul McCartney song lyrics, ‘will you still feed me, when I'm 64’, The ‘Foods for Life Pizzaz Pizza’ encompasses all the core values and fundamental elements that 64 years of veganism stand for. These include compassion for the environment, people, health and animals.

The pizza recipe has 64 ingredients, an ingredient to mark every year of The Vegan Society's 64 year history in which they have encouraged people to eat more fruit and vegetables and plant based protein.

Celebrity Foods for Life TV Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston says “Over 88% of us still don't eat enough fruit and vegetables. It's estimated 12% of the UK don't eat any fruit and vegetables at all! As one of the most ubiquitous fast foods and probably the least healthy we decided to target the humble mass produced Pizza and give it a gourmet, optimum nutrition makeoverâ€

Yvonne's vegan husband Tony, author of a new vegan cookbook by Lorenz called ‘The Complete Book of Vegan Cooking’ says “We thought it would be a good way to mark World Vegan Day on November 1st and Veganism's 64th birthday with a vegan pizza recipe with 64 nutritious ingredientsâ€

“Our pizzaz pizza recipe is not only a delicious feast but is veggie-liciously packed with vegetables, complex carbohydrates, protein, essential fats, vitamins, minerals – rich in the basic nutrients you need to move towards a healthier lifestyle†says Yvonne.

At around 730 calories a typical pepperoni pizza has nearly as much fat, even more carbohydrates and less protein than a McDonalds double Quarter pounder with cheese.

A 6 slice medium pan Pizza Hut Pepperoni Pizza has 2112 Kcals, 117g of fat, 164g of carbohydrates, 10g of salt and 101g of protein.

Foods for Life are committed to encouraging a healthier choice on restaurant menus.

Foods for Life 64 Ingredient Healthy Pizzaz Pizza

For the Dough Base

• Wholemeal flour, baking powder or yeast
• Cold pressed virgin olive and rapeseed oils
• Soya milk (apple sweetened, calcium, vitamin D, vitamin B12)
• Himalayan rock salt, black pepper, rosemary, marjoram, parsley,

or the Tomato Sauce

• Chopped tomatoes, tomato paste, peppadew peppers
• Onions, red peppers, celery, cauliflower, aubergine, (finely chopped)
• Carrots, sweet potato, parsnip, (grated)
• Spinach , watercress, cabbage, courgettes, kale, (finely chopped)
• Mango or whole mango juice (whole fruit , sugar free)
• Ground almonds, ground hazelnuts, ground buck wheat flour,
• Garlic, oregano, nutmeg, Black pepper, Himalayan Rock salt, sage, basil, bay leaves, nori seaweed
• Cold pressed virgin rapeseed oil

or the Rainbow Toppings

• Pickled wild mushroom mix ( Button Mushrooms, Oyster Mushrooms, Shitake Mushrooms, porcini, ceps, etc in truffle infused flax oil)
• Green veg mix ( broccoli, peas, mange tout, green beans, broad beans )
• Yellow veg Mix ( sweet corn, pineapple, yellow peppers, chickpeas, pine-nuts)
• Red veg Mix (Red peppers, cherry tomato, red onions, chopped red cabbage, kidney beans)
• Nut and seed mix (shelled hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashew nuts, pistachios, brazil nuts)
• Asparagus and delicatessen mix (artichoke, green olives, black olives, capers, pickled figs)
• Selection of dairy free cheeses (such as Redwoods super melting cheddar or mozzarella)
• Or a cheesy sauce made from soya milk and rapeseed oil emulsified with balsamic vinegar and flavoured with mustard, ketchup, yeast extract /bouillon powder or yeast flakes and thickened if necessary with mashed potato.

For the full recipe with suggested amounts and method as well as serving suggestions please contact Foods for life at clinic at http://foodsforlife.co.uk or call Tel: 08712884642 Fax : 08712884643 or visit http://www.optimumnutritionists.com or http://www.foodsforlife.org.uk

Story by: Foods for life

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