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Mini Vegan Pizza Potato Skins

Mini Vegan Pizza Potato Skins with Tahini Cheese | coconutandberries.com

If you’re following me on my social media accounts you’ll probably have heard me mention my monthly The Vegan Kind boxes. I love getting post and the arrival of my The Vegan Kind boxes is always especially exciting! The Vegan Kind is the UK’s first lifestyle box for vegans and it contains not only food and drink but vegan toiletries, cleaning products, household supplies and more.

There’s always a recipe in the box too and this month the company’s lovely founder, Karris, asked me if I could come up with a recipe to feature.

Mini Vegan Pizza Potato Skins with Tahini Cheese | coconutandberries.com

One of the products in the box this month (#TVK18), and with which I was tasked with creating a recipe, was a delicious sun dried tomato paste from The Olive Branch’s “Greek Mezze” range. It sounds pretty unassuming but I promise this stuff is really good!

It wasn’t too much of a challenge to think how to use it as it’s very versatile.  A few ideas are: mixed with roasted vegetables, pasta or grains, as a sandwich spread, stirred into hummus, and of course on pizza! 

Mini Vegan Pizza Potato Skins with Tahini Cheese | coconutandberries.com

As great as pizza is, I didn’t want to make just any old pizza. So, as we’re smack bang in the middle of new potato season here in the UK, I decided to bring them into the mix and make vegan pizza potato skins! These are so easy to make and would make the perfect party bites! 

Crispy potato shell + umami sun dried tomato paste + melty tahini cheese.  

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Mini Vegan Pizza Potato Skins

Mini Vegan Pizza Potato Skins

Ingredients

  • New Potatoes
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt
  • Sun-dried Tomato Paste (like Olive Branch OR try my Sun-dried Tomato Pesto recipe)
  • Cherry Tomatoes, halved
  • Tahini Cheese (2 Tbsp Tahini, 1 1/2 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast, 1/8 tsp Salt, 1/4 C Water whisked together until smooth) OR Vegan Cheese of choice, grated*
  • Chopped chives (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 220C/425F
  2. Place potatoes in a large pan and cover with water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 15-20 minutes, or until tender.
  3. Cut each potato in half, then use a teaspoon or melon baller to carefully scoop the filling out, leaving a thin layer of potato (Save the potato flesh to make mashed potatoes!)
  4. Place the potatoes on a baking tray, skin side up. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and bake for 10 minutes.
  5. Turn on the grill. Fill with approx. 1 tsp of sun-dried tomato paste, then top with a drizzle of tahini cheese or grated vegan cheese.
  6. Top with 1 or 2 cherry tomato halves then place under the grill for 3-5 minutes until just beginning to brown.
  7. Sprinkle over chives, if using, and serve immediately.

Notes

*This is enough for approx. 16-20 vegan pizza potato skins

http://www.coconutandberries.com/2015/05/15/mini-vegan-pizza-potato-skins/
 

The Vegan Kind lifestyle boxes are now also available outside of the UK ! Delivery is more expensive of course but considering the value of the contents is always way more than the £10 price,  the international price is still not a bad deal at all. 

Mini Vegan Pizza Potato Skins with Tahini Cheese | coconutandberries.com

I hope you give my vegan pizza potato skins a try too! Let me know if you do and how you like them. 

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Comments

  1. These look so sweet! What a perfect spring dish - bright and fresh but still warming on the evenings the temperature dips. I’m yet to try out the vegan kind boxes but keep meaning to and it does sound like they’re good value.

    • There was an American diner style restaurant (whose name escapes me…) I used to go to as a kid which did amazing potato skins. It was fun to veganize them and bring back some memories!

  6. Oh wow these look SO yummy! I bet they would be great as a side dish at a BBQ with some marinated tofu and mushroom kebabs… They would be nice to have in a lunchbox at work too :)

    Thanks for the recipe, will definitely be trying these out!

  8. I LOVE this recipe. I like that it brings in the grill at the end for an added smoke flavor. It is perfect for summer over here because 1) I love to throw a good barbecue and this is perfect for a little get together 2) it uses the grill…which also kind of goes with #1’s barbecue. Thanks for sharing!

  10. OK, you know I love this!! My middle name is potato! You know how much I love potatoes and these look sooo delicious! And I’m guessing tahini cheese is the new craze because I’ve seen 4 recipes in the past week with it…I need to try that STAT! Gorgeous Emma!!

    • haha, yes! I think you love potatoes more than me, though I’m beginning to get back into them 😉 And I was really happy with the tahini cheese. It’s great to have something you can simply stir together, no cooking or blending involved.

  11. These are so adorable <3
    I used to love potato skins when I was an omni, but haven't made them since becoming a vegan. How to replace the cheese? But this sundried tomato paste seems perfect and these are definitely going on my list to try.

  12. Will definitely try this! And I’m always searching for good veggie/vegan cheese recipes, so I’ll be making the tahini cheese tomorrow! Haven’t worked with tahini much, so this will be exciting. Is all tahini the same? Any particular brand I should try? I buy most of my veggie/health products from Whole Foods.

    • Do give it a go! I’ve had a lot of very positive feedback on it. As for brand, that’s not too much of a concern, just make sure you get the kind that uses hulled sesame seeds rather than unhealed. It’s a light beige colour rather than brown and is much nicer!

  14. The recipe for the mini vegan pizza potato skins is lovely! It is really nice and easy! I will prepare the potato skins this weekend.. I am very curious to try the Tahini Cheese. :) Thank you for sharing the The Vegan Kind boxes! Me and my family really try living naturally and it is very exciting to find the vegan lifestyle boxes! I really like using natural cleaning products and household supplies so I will definitely follow! Thanks! :)

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