(Eek I already put together the first one – my vegan chorizo queso recipe!) I’m also adding my own recipes here as I get them put together, so stay tuned for that. She’s the queen of vegan cheese and your flavor will most likely be found there! Check out what she uses for flavors and pop ’em in this sauce and you’ll be golden. If you want some flavoring ideas, I highly recommend giving my friend Kat a visit at and browsing through her plethora of vegan cheese recipes. This recipe will taste like the milk you made it with and no more. This sauce is NOT flavored! This is the BASE RECIPE – so if you want to give it a smoky mozzarella or cheddar flavor, or if you want to go a bit funky and go bleu cheese direction, you’re going to have to add some flavor to it. It melts beautifully when heated, though. Refrigerated cheese sauce is goopy and semi-solid, kinda like soft jello. But don’t judge it, heat it up, and watch the magic happen! This sauce does NOT look appetizing while cold! Seriously. I’ve got a variation that can be sliced and grated, and I’m working on getting that recipe put together for you so stay tuned! It’s perfect for pouring and dripping, not for slicing and grating. This sauce is NOT firm cheese product which can be sliced and grated. It performs nearly identically to tapioca.Īre both tapioca and arrowroot out for you? Potato starch ( NOT flour) is a great sub and still gives you some good stretch! What this cheese sauce ISN’T It’s freakin’ magic.Ĭan’t find tapioca starch, and can only get your hands on tapioca flour? No worries, they’re the same thing.Īllergic to tapioca? Give arrowroot powder/flour/starch a try. And not only that, but the ‘cheese’ will thicken even more when it cools, and remelt when it’s heated. When tapioca starch is heated in liquid, not only does it thicken it but it also makes it stretchy and very. Tapioca starch is a super fine powder that will. I’m convinced that any decent tasting dairy-free milk will be able to give you a nice cheese sauce. Rice milk, soy milk, almond milk, cashew milk, pea milk, and oat milk have all yielded pretty similar results with this recipe. So I decided to give plant milk a shot to see if it could deliver. The sweetness is just about the same (cow’s milk has around 13g of sugar per 8oz), and the viscosity is matched thanks to gums, proteins, or gelling agents that are either added or are naturally in the plant that’s being used to make the milk. But most plant-based milks on the market today come pretty darn close to the taste and texture of dairy milk. Now, I know that plant-based milks don’t exactly perform in the same ways as dairy milk. This is a way oversimplified explanation of cheesemaking which can actually get super duper complicated, but just hang with me for a minute. Cheese in the simplest sense is milk + something to thicken it (rennet, bacteria, time, and/or acid). Yes, our farm was officially registered under that name.Īnd do you know what I realised? Guess what we made cheese out of? MILK. A piece of original artwork by yours truly from 20 years ago. So I’ve got a little bit of knowhow when it comes to cheesemaking. I milked goats twice a day with my two little hands, strained, stored, and turned the milk into all kinds of amazing things. So in my formative years while growing up, we had a small dairy goat farm. I don’t usually go into ancient histories and long babbling stories here on my blog, but this post deserves a little backstory: I swore I didn’t do stories in my recipes but here I go. The day you make this cheese sauce will be the first day of a new era in your kitchen. This is the absolute bare minimum, base level, most allergy-friendly, but still absolutely luscious and wonderful vegan cheese sauce recipe that will change the way you eat forever. Say welcome back to pizzas, pastas, grilled cheese sandwiches (toasties for you Brits!), fondue, and more – because this basic vegan cheese sauce recipe will open the door for all of them to come back into your post-dairy life! No nuts, no soaking, no blenders, no weird ingredients, and virtually fool-proof.
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