If the quantity of photos I include in my posts indicates how much I love a recipe, then you can see that I really, really, really love this recipe.
I try not to go overboard on the photos – I usually include just a couple for each recipe – but I had to share four for this one. And really they’re not all that different from one another. And I wanted to include many more.
Here’s barbecue tofu pizza, in all its glory, whole.
And again whole. But closer up.
See all that homemade-barbecue-sauce-drenched tofu? The purple-pink bite of red onions? The cool cilantro?
And then? We cut it.
Important to show a photo of that. Especially because now we’re that much closer to eating it.
And now, finally, a close-up of a cut piece. Including a cross-section of tofu. Of course.
Here you get a good idea of just how melty all that cheese is, too. When that hot, gooey melted cheese meets the bubbling barbecue sauce (and all the things in between), magical things happen.
My notes on this recipe? “Ohmygosh soooo good.” I’m so articulate sometimes.
This vegetarian barbecue pizza recipe is essentially the same as your typical barbecue chicken pizza. Except I use this cornstarch-dredged-and-then-sauteed salt and pepper tofu. My happiest culinary discovery of late, salt and pepper tofu is crispy and, so far, has proven to be the perfect substitute for chicken in all kinds of dishes. I’m not big on one-for-one meat substitutions – there’s plenty of amazing healthy, nutritionally-complete plant-based food out there without needing to resort to that – but it’s been fun to play with. I keep this stuff by the bagful in the freezer – so easy to just grab a few hunks for all kinds of recipes.
So far, though, barbecue tofu pizza is my favorite.
I wrote the recipe so that you can choose to make one big pizza with either tofu or chicken, or you can make two smaller pizzas, like I do – one for my resident carnivore, who, of course, gets chicken; and the tofu for me.
And honestly? My guy is totally missing out.