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Vegan Cheese Sauce

★★★★★ from 1 reviews

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This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It’s made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You’ll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a vegan cheese dip with chips or veggies.

This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a vegan cheese dip with chips or veggies.

Any other dairy-free // vegan people here who miss the goodness that is cheesy delicious things?

A good cheese sauce can do wonders, and I know I’ve always been partial to good mac and cheese. I’m also a big fan of queso dip, grilled cheese sandwiches, nachos, veggies with cheese sauce, and just about anything else that allows me to scoop warm cheesy dips and sauces into my mouth. Give me all the cheese sauces, please.

But, being dairy-free and vegan, traditional dairy cheese sauces aren’t usually in the mix. UNTIL now.

This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a dip with chips or veggies.

Meet my new favorite vegan cheese sauce. 

It’s so tasty you’d never guess how dang HEALTHY it is. It’s loaded up with tons of steamed veggies, it’s oil-free, and even includes some antioxidant boosts like garlic and turmeric. I like using a lot of nutritional yeast to give the sauce a “cheesy” flavor – don’t skimp on this! The nutritional yeast also adds a B12 boost.

This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a dip with chips or veggies.

This vegan cheese sauce satiates all of my cravings and has so. many. uses. I love using this vegan cheese sauce:

  • Drizzled on nachos
  • Mixed with pasta for vegan mac and cheese
  • Spooned over roasted vegetables, like broccoli
  • Served with chips and veggies as an appetizer

Or anywhere else you’d use a regular cheese sauce. So many possibilities!

This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a dip with chips or veggies.

A few notes to help you make the BEST sauce:

  • Be sure to use a high-powered blender. This helps ensure your sauce is super smooth and creamy. If it’s grainy at all, just keep blending until you get the perfect smooth texture. Certain blenders will take longer to achieve this.
  • Soak your cashews if you know your blender isn’t super high powered. In my Vitamix, the cashews will get super smooth even without soaking, but if you’re working with a less powerful blender, be sure to soak your cashews in water for at least 30 minutes before draining, rinsing, and using in the sauce.
  • Add lots of spices! This includes salt. I include an option below for which spices to use for traditional cheese sauce and which ones to add in for a more “queso”-style flavor. Either way, add them to taste. All of us have different palates, so add more spices to taste if it’s not strong enough for you!
  • Taste, taste, and taste again. This doubles down on the last tip – make sure you love the way it tastes! Add more salt if the sweetness of the veggies is still coming through. 

This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a dip with chips or veggies.

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This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a dip with chips or veggies.

Vegan Cheese Sauce


★★★★★

5 from 1 reviews

  • Author: Rachel
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 35 minutes
  • Yield: 3½ cups 1x
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This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It’s made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You’ll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a dip with chips or veggies.


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Ingredients

For the cheese sauce

  • 1 small yellow onion, diced
  • 1 cup cauliflower florets, diced
  • 1 small Yukon gold potato, diced
  • 2 medium carrots, sliced
  • 2 to 3 cloves garlic
  • ⅓ cup raw cashews, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes
  • 3 tablespoons nutritional yeast
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ½ teaspoon onion powder
  • ⅛ teaspoon turmeric

More spices to add for a Mexican flavor (for nachos, tacos, etc.)

  • 1½ teaspoons cumin
  • ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
  • ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste

Instructions

  1. Steam the onion, cauliflower, potato, carrots, and garlic until all the vegetables are tender, about 10 to 15 minutes.
  2. Cool slightly and transfer vegetables to a high-powered blender.
  3. Add ½ cup water, soaked cashews, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, salt, and spices.
  4. Blend for 2 to 4 minutes or until completely smooth and silky. Add more water if needed to help it blend smoothly and get it to a thickness you’d like. Add more salt and spices to taste.
  5. Serve with chips, mix with pasta, use for nachos, or anything else you like using cheese sauce for!

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This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a vegan cheese dip with chips or veggies.This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a vegan cheese dip with chips or veggies.

This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a vegan cheese dip with chips or veggies.

This Vegan Cheese Sauce recipe is easy to make and tastes good on just about everything! It's made with vegetables and cashews for an oil-free, dairy-free cheese sauce. You'll love it with pasta or vegetables, on nachos, and taco bowls, or used as a vegan cheese dip with chips or veggies.

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  1. D in StP says

    August 6, 2020 at 12:15 pm

    SO GOOD! I’ve tried several Cashew Cheese Sauce recipes and they were all right, but they never would have convinced a dairy fan to take more than a bite or two. I think this is better than dairy cheese/queso. I only made the version with taco spices because (1) my previous experience with other recipes has led me to expect bland sauces, and (2) I made this to go with your vegan nachos.

    I really do want this on everything!

    ★★★★★

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  2. Andrea says

    January 7, 2021 at 12:41 pm

    What alternatives for yukon potatoe?

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    • Bakerita | Rachel Conners says

      January 7, 2021 at 12:42 pm

      Hi Andrea, any white potato should work here! A sweet potato could also work but will sweeten the recipe a bit.

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      • Kelsey says

        February 8, 2021 at 11:40 am

        Hello! If I am using the inside of the potato from the potato skins, how much potato should I use in the queso? Thank you!

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        • Bakerita | Rachel Conners says

          February 8, 2021 at 12:17 pm

          Hi Kelsey – this is a brilliant idea!! I’d say you’d want around 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup of potato :)

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