Flavorful Vegan Nacho Cheese. Flavorful Vegan Nacho Cheese step by step. On a separate board, cut onions and garlic. Heat canola oil in pan on low heat.
This is a doubled up portion of the cheese sauce used with Bell. This Vegan Nacho Cheese is incredible as a dip for baked chips as well as on fries, baked potatoes, and pizza. Believe it or not, boiled potatoes and carrots give this vegan cheese it's creamy and smooth texture. You can have Flavorful Vegan Nacho Cheese using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Flavorful Vegan Nacho Cheese
- It's 2 of Yukon gold potatoes, diced.
- Prepare 2 of whole carrots, chopped.
- You need 1 of yellow onion, halved and sliced.
- You need 2 cloves of garlic, chopped.
- Prepare of canola oil, enough to saute plus some.
- It's of unsweetened almond milk, enough to float veggies in blender.
- You need 1/4 c. of nutritional yeast.
- It's of juice of 1 lemon.
- You need 2 tbsp of salt.
- Prepare of generous dash of cayenne.
Vegan nacho cheese is easy, zesty, creamy, and flavorful! Enjoy it as a healthy dip, dressing, spread, or sauce. Believe it or not, boiled potatoes and carrots give this vegan cheese it's creamy and smooth texture - and bright color! Blended with nutritional yeast and spices, you get a super flavorful cheese that is perfect on top of enchiladas, with tortilla chips or nachos, and in vegan quesadillas!.
Flavorful Vegan Nacho Cheese step by step
- Put water on to boil. Cut potatoes and carrots. On a separate board, cut onions and garlic..
- Heat canola oil in pan on low heat. Add potatoes and carrots to boiling water, and onions and garlic to pan..
- Boil/saute for apprx. 10-15 minutes (variations in stoves will determine proper cooking time). Carrots should be soft and onions should brown on edges..
- Add almond milk into blender, covering blade. Add boiled veggies to blender. Fill blender with almond milk until almost covering veggies..
- Add onions and garlic to blender (include oil if desired). Fill blender with oil to cover onions..
- Add lemon juice, nutritional yeast, salt and cayenne to blender. Gradually increase blend speed to highest speed, removing cap if necessary (whipped heat will create pressure, this should not be attempted in a bullet blender). Blend apprx 1-2 minutes depending on blender capabilities. Product should be smooth with only trace specks of cayenne visible..
If you're newly vegan and desperately miss cheese (I hear you, cheese was tough for me to give up. While "meat" cooks, prepare cheese sauce by pureeing all ingredients in a high-powered blender. Add half of the chips to a baking dish. Before I became vegan, I loved nacho cheese! Especially at the movie theater it was one of my favorites.