Nut-free Vegan Mac and Cheese
This nut-free vegan mac and cheese is a delicious twist on a classic comfort food. It is a simple, healthy, and delicious recipe that will satisfy your cravings for a creamy, cheesy pasta dish without using any dairy, nuts, oil, or gluten. It is a veggie-packed sauce that can be ready in just 20 minutes.
Servings 6 servings
Calories 88kcal
Equipment
- our Vitamix A2300
- Regular blender
- Stockpot
Ingredients
To pre-cook
- 1 cup Potato (diced) 1 medium
- 1 cup Sweet potato (diced) 1 small/medium
- ½ cup Carrot (diced) 1 medium
- ¼ cup Onion (chopped) ½ small
- 1 clove Garlic
- 3 cup Veggie broth
To blend
- 1 cup Veggie broth aka cooking water
- ⅓ cup Sunflower seed (raw, unsalted)
- 2 Tbsp Nutritional yeast
- ½ tsp Salt
- ⅛ tsp Pepper
- 1 pinch Sweet Paprika powder
- 1 Tbsp Brown rice flour or corn starch if you want an even more gooey sauce (optional)
Instructions
Prepare ingredients
- Boil water and cook pasta as per instructions on the packaging.
- Peel and dice potatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots. The smaller you dice them, the shorter will be the cooking time.
- Peel and chop onion and garlic.
Pre-cook ingredients
- Boil veggie broth in a pan and add all vegetables (diced potatoes, diced sweet potatoes, diced carrots, chopped onion, and garlic). Cook them until soft.
- When ready, reserve 1 cup of the cooking water.
Blend everything to make a sauce
- Transfer all cooked vegetables into a blender. Add sunflower seeds (no need to soak them), nutritional yeast, salt, pepper, sweet paprika powder, and rice flour or corn starch.
- Blend them until you have a creamy sauce.
- When pasta is ready, drain the water. Pour the sauce on the pasta and enjoy!
Video
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Notes
Quick note: In the video, we added the nutritional yeast after blending, which was due to the fact that we almost forgot. :-))) Slight distraction due to two kids running around at home.
A quick tip: Sauces with added flour and starch need to be hot to thicken. It means you have to re-heat the sauce in a small pan to activate the flour or the starch properly. However, the veggies also have starch in them, and I think the sauce is thick enough without anything else to add.