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15-Min Cashew Alfredo Sauce

If you want an easy cashew alfredo sauce, this is the one for you. You only need 5 ingredients to make this creamy, delicious, flavorful sauce that you can ready in just 15 minutes. The best part is, there is no cooking involved either.
Course Main Course, Sauce
Cuisine Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Italian, Soy-free, Vegan, Vegetarian
Keyword cashew alfredo sauce, vegan alfredo sauce
Prep Time 10 minutes
Soaking time 5 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 4 servings
Calories 295kcal
Author Nandi Barta

Equipment

  • our Vitamix A2300
  • Regular blender
  • Immersion hand blender with 20 fl oz container

Ingredients

  • 1 + ⅓ cup Cashew nuts
  • 1 + ½ cup Dairy-free milk (homemade cashew milk)
  • 2 cloves Garlic
  • 2 Tbsp Nutritional yeast
  • ½ tsp Nutmeg
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • ⅛ tsp White pepper

Instructions

  • Soak cashew nuts in piping hot water for 5-10 minutes. You can do overnight soaking, but if you are in a hurry, boil water in a kettle and soak the cashew nuts for only 5-10 minutes.
  • When time is up, fill your blender. Add soaked cashews, dairy-free milk, garlic, nutritional yeast, nutmeg, salt, and pepper and blend them until smooth.
  • You can serve the sauce right away. If you pour it on pasta and veggies and warm them together in a frying pan, the sauce will thicken!

Video

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Notes

Use Vitamix

You can certainly use a hand blender (aka immersion blender) or a regular blender, but you may end up with a grainy and not-so-smooth sauce. If you need this sauce to be extra smooth without a single little piece to find, we recommend using a high-speed blender like Vitamix. We took new photos for this recipe after buying a Vitamix and the difference was huge.

Raw cashews or roasted cashews?

We usually use roasted cashews, especially if we cannot find raw cashews on the cheap. The sauce is PERFECT with roasted cashews. Even if you can only find salted ones, don't worry; they will be washed off while soaking.

Which dairy-free milk to choose?

We recommend using cashew, almond, oat, or soy milk. Any other milk may alter the taste too much e.g. coconut milk.