Coconut milk: I use coconut milk that contains 17% fat.Thickness: If the cheese sauce turns out too thick, just add more coconut milk or any other plant-based milk (or water), up to 1 cup.Should you recreate this vegan nacho cheese sauce, please leave a comment below and don’t forget to tag me in your Instagram or Facebook post with #elavegan because I love to see your recreations. Check the Recipe Notes for a tapioca flour substitute. Tapioca flour can be bought in every Asia shop or big supermarkets or simply ordered online. So don’t wait any longer and make it NOW. I just love simple recipes which require only a few ingredients and this easy sauce recipe is one of them. I made this cheeze sauce probably 100 times already because I use it in almost all of my savory recipes lol. I have included some pictures of different dishes which I made using this cheese sauce recipe. Sometimes when I am too lazy to make my Mac and Cheese recipe I will simply make this 3-minute cheese sauce and pour it over my cooked pasta and my dinner is served in just a few minutes. Whether it is pizza, nachos, gratin, pasta, or any other plant-based recipe. You can use this vegan sauce for any savory recipe which requires cheese. Perfect For Nachos, Pizza, Gratin And More The spices are up to you, but I love to add some garlic and onion powder, and also a pinch of smoked paprika. Nutritional yeast is an important ingredient for the taste because it adds a cheesy flavor. It makes the sauce stretchy and even reminds of real cheese. The tapioca flour (which is also called tapioca starch) makes this recipe so special because it adds the amazing elasticity to the sauce. I served it also to vegetarians and meat eaters and everyone loved the taste AND texture of this vegan cheese sauce. This recipe is not only amazing for vegans. It seriously couldn’t be easier than that.
No cooking of veggies, no soaking of cashews. You just need to put all the ingredients into a saucepan, bring the mixture to a boil and that’s it! You don’t even need a blender or food processor. This cashew-free cheese sauce contains only a handful of ingredients and is ready in 3 minutes. I know there are tons of vegan cheese sauce recipes out there, but most of them contain cashews + many more ingredients and require longer preparation time. So let’s start to make this easy recipe, it will be done in 3 minutes! Only A Few Ingredients But maybe you already have these ingredients at home as well. Since most people have water and salt at home, all you need to buy is coconut milk, tapioca flour, and nutritional yeast flakes. Coconut milk, tapioca flour, nutritional yeast flakes, water, and salt – these are the ingredients which you will need to make this delicious sauce. This is probably the easiest homemade vegan cheese sauce ever! It might change your life, it changed mine, I am not kidding. The sauce doesn’t contain cashews! Easy Vegan Cheese Sauce Without Cashews! This vegan queso is perfect for pizza, nachos, Mac and Cheese, burgers, pasta bake, toast, and more savory recipes. But what exactly is this stuff that we have to label it "product" and can put it in the unrefrigerated section? (I've heard from some Canadian friends that they have Velveeta that's actually made of CHEESE!! I'll admit I'm a little jealous that we got the short-stick on that one here in the States.)ĪT LAST, I have made a recipe that gets rid of BOTH of these problems and still results in a delicious, creamy, cheesy mac and cheese without flour or any sort of cheese "product." What's even better is that this mac and cheese without flour is truly as easy as making macaroni and cheese with the "cheese product!" The easiness (and clean-up!) rival the boxed macaroni and cheese.Easy vegan cheese sauce with minimal ingredients and ready in 3 minutes! A super simple and nut-free plant-based recipe which requires only a handful of ingredients. It's smooth and creamy with a great texture. Using Velveeta or other cheese "products." Making the cheese sauce with these cheese products is, quite frankly, delicious. The creamy cheesy texture is also slightly distorted to mildly gritty.Ģ. The problem with this is that no matter how much cheese you put in the sauce, you can still get a mild flour flavor. Starting the cheese sauce with a roux, or basic white sauce. My motto is "if it doesn't have cheese in it, it's not worth eating." So a food where the main ingredient is cheese? Count me in!! I've experimented with making different mac and cheese recipes here at home and I've come across two main problems:ġ. Just REAL cheese to make this gooey, creamy comfort classic. Creamy mac and cheese without flour or cheese product.