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5 Ingredient Almond Feta Cheese
[Vegan]

CR By: Charanya Ramakrishnan

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5 Ingredient Almond Feta Cheese [Vegan]

2 cups

Dairy Free

Vegan

This almond feta is the perfect plant-based alternative for sprinkling on salads, pizzas, or anything you would enjoy feta on. I was never a big cheese eater, but once I went vegan, I started to crave it. Feta was my favorite cheese. Salads with feta, chive cream cheese, etc. Yum.... Read More

Ingredients You Need for 5 Ingredient Almond Feta Cheese [Vegan]

1 1/2 cups raw almonds
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
2 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons and 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Salt to taste
1 1/2 cups water

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How to Prepare 5 Ingredient Almond Feta Cheese [Vegan]

Soak Almonds in 2 cups very hot water for 2 hours.
Skin almonds.
Add the almond kernels & water into a food processor. Make a smooth paste.
Add the other ingredients to the food processor and process until smooth(if you need extra water-add 1 Tbsp at a time)
Transfer to a colander lined with a cheesecloth and squeeze down starting from the open end.
Now, wrap an elastic band on the open end (tight) and keep a container underneath to collect juices [The creamy cheese milk can be added to salads or to my cheesy hummus]. Leave it overnight refrigerated. The next day you will find a big mass of almond cheese inside the cheesecloth.
Preheat the oven to 325°F.
To shape them, you could transfer to a cling-wrapped bowl.
Line a tray with baking paper and flip the bowl onto the tray. Carefully, remove bowl & cling wrap and you will see the cheese sit there on the tray
Bake for 20 minutes. Remove, Make some deep pits using toothpicks to ease cooking.
Back into the oven, Bake the cheese until the cracks start to appear on the top of the cheese. (It took 30 minutes on a middle-tier oven rack)
Remove from oven and cut into cubes. Store in an airtight container (in a refrigerator). Tastes amazing even after a week.

Nutritional Information

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