The Silano pizza from Bertucci’s (or, the Tooch as I call it) is a very non-vegan pizza full of greasy dairy creamy death. But I’d be damned if I didn’t used to find it very, very delicious.

I love vegan pizzas. No cheese, fake-cheese, no meat, fake-meat, it don’t matter. Pizza is SO EASY to make vegan and delicious. But, the Silano? We’ll see.

Actual Silano pizza (pictured above) from the Tooch is as follows :

alfredo sauce, mozzarella cheese, chicken, broccoli, and a squeeze of fresh lemon.

Now, how I recreated it – and, nailed it on the first try!

I bought pre-made dough, the kind you just stretch out and bake off. It was just the Shaw’s (grocery store) brand. So it was about 2 dollars. This made a large pizza.

Next up – the sauce! I intended on buying this (kinda gross looking) vegan alfredo sauce I had seen at my grocery store for years.

Turns out – the one time I want to try it – they don’t sell it anymore! Crap.

My accidental back up plan came in the form of the new(ish) Daiya alfredo pasta. I remembered that this brand has liquid sauce in a pouch, versus the powder. GREAT CHOICE. Turns out – this sauce tasted nearly identical to the original Silano sauce, which is very black peppery.

Now this stuff was kind of expensive, maybe like 6 or 7 bucks for one box, but hey, a Silano pizza at the Tooch is like 17 bucks so… we’re right on track.

The pouch gave exactly the right amount of sauce for the whole pizza. So I used the whole thing. I’ll cook the pasta some other time!

Next up – the broccoli. Self explanatory. Just chopped up some fresh broccoli and plopped it on there.

Then, the chicken. I used Beyond Meat’s Chicken Strips. Which I find to be the best chicken substitute I’ve tried.

I sprinkled on a few chopped up strips. The chicken was always my least favorite part of the Silano, so I didn’t put too much on.

I lightly salted & peppered the whole thing, along with some red pepper flakes.

On top – the cheese. I really like the Follow Your Heart cheeses, more than the Daiya shreds. And they are much cheaper at the grocery store. So I bought the mozzarella slices and just grated it like a block.

I didn’t want it to be too cheesy, so you can see that my pizza isn’t as slathered up as the Tooch original, but trust me, it didn’t need to be!

I baked my pizza on 475 for about 20 minutes and viola! out it came. I squeezed fresh lemon generously over the top and ate that mo fo up.

I was shocked at how much it tasted like the real thing. I even made my very carnivorous boyfriend try it. He was impressed! Sometimes I figure it’s just been so long since I tasted real cheese or meat, that maybe I *think* it tastes like that, but it really doesn’t. But not this one, nope, boyfriend confirmed – it’s scarily accurate! I mean, you still get that distinct “Daiya” taste, to the sauce, but its subtle and I don’t mind it.

This was a real winner, and I will absolutely make it again!