One of my favourite products at the moment is the mock duck from Vantastic Foods. It’s odd cause I have never been a huge mock duck fan and I have never been a huge fan of duck. If you asked me what duck tastes like I wouldn’t be able to explain it to you. I have no idea, I can’t remember. I find many brands of mock duck too strong in flavour, so overpowering that by one bite I’m over it. The flavour of this mock duck is a lot more subtle and, therefore, goes with a lot more meals and options (I think).
Before I went vegan one of my favourite duck dishes was a duck pizza. I also loved the mock duck pizza we were served when we stayed at a resort before travelling to Germany. Wanting to relive these memories I went on the hunt for the ingredients. When it comes to pizza I have a “thing”, it must be easy. Pizza to me is a ‘fast food’ (when I say fast, I don’t mean junk, I mean simple and quick) and when I make it at home (actually we always make our own) I want to be able to put the toppings on and in the oven. No precooking this, no large amounts of chopping, and especially no large amounts of mess and cleaning. The most I’ll do is blanch a veggie. Pizza, to me, is not extravagant. I even buy premade bases half the time cause I can’t be bothered with the prep of making my own. Quick, simple, easy, no fuss, I don’t want to be in the kitchen fast food. Luckily this is premade mock duck so it fits with this philosophy perfectly.
So on my premade base I spread a premade ginger jam, mock duck (undrained, straight out the jar) and chopped a spring onion. I put this in the oven to cook for 10 minutes at 200c.
I then took it out and added a couple of handfuls of prewashed (by me when I got it home earlier that day) rocket and grated some vegan mozzarella on top. All this went into the oven for another 5 minutes. Done!
I also used Teese Mozzarella on this pizza as I hadn’t tried it before. I still like Vegusto No-Muh-Chäs Melty the best. It doesn’t melt as well but has I nicer flavour (I think). Teese reminds me too much of ‘plastic’ cheese slices and I was never a great fan of those.