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If you’re craving cheese, you gotta try this vegan cashew cheese recipe. It's perfect for sandwiches, crackers, and other cheesy delights! It's also super simple and can be whisked under an hour. You can slice it, grate it, and melt it! This cashew cheese is not only delicious, but also oil-free, soy-free, and made from seven all-natural ingredients.

Sliceable Cashew Cheese [Vegan]

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Serves

10+

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup raw cashews [Soaked overnight in a cup of water]
  • 1 heaped Tbsp + 1.5 tsp nutritional yeast
  • 1 clove garlic (you don’t want this to be a garlic cheese)
  • 1.5 tsp starch of your choice (Tapioca/Arrowroot/Corn)
  • 1.5 tsp agar agar powder
  • 1 Tbsp + 2 tsp juice from lemon
  • 1/2 cup +1/2 cup water
  • Salt - to taste

Preparation

  1. In a saucepan, mix agar agar in 1/2 cup water. Keep aside
  2. Discard the water from cashews. Rinse them really well. Add cashews to a food processor with nutritional yeast, garlic, starch, salt, lemon juice & 1/2 cup of water. Make a very very smooth paste.
  3. Add the cashew paste to agar agar mixture.
  4. Bring this to boil on a low-medium heat until it forms a thick pancake-batter consistency.
  5. Quickly transfer to ramekins. This quantity makes one full ramekin and another 1/2 ramekin sized vegan cheeses.
  6. Refrigerate for an hour. Carefully remove from the ramekin and enjoy your cashew cheese!
Consistency will be that of silken tofu[ A hard-jelly consistency]

Notes

- You could add a pinch of turmeric for a deep yellow color. - Taste check the cashew paste. If you like it to be more tangy, feel free to increase the quantity of lemon juice. - It will be a think ‘jelly’ consistency. Not as firm as normal cheese. However, you could hold and grate through a grater. Mine became a bit mushy. However, managed to pass through the sieve though. - Tastes excellent with crackers

Nutritional Information

Total Calories: 325 | Total Carbs: 22 g | Total Fat: 20 g | Total Protein: 13 g | Total Sodium: 323 g | Total Sugar: 1 g Note: The information shown is based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.


About The Author

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Charanya Ramakrishnan

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Dairy-free sweets and meat-free dinners with Indian flair.

I am Charanya, a vegan and gluten-free blogger and founder of Yes, I am Vegan. I am an IT lecturer by day and blogger by night. I have been vegan for three years now and gluten-free, the last year. One common question I get asked is, what do you eat? That's why I started blogging, to show the world, vegan and gluten-free food isn't hard to cook. You just need to look for it.

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