Vegan Nacho Cheese Sauce
This vegan nacho cheese is creamy, rich, and packed with flavor without using any nuts. It is better than store-bought processed versions and is incredibly easy to make. Plus, you can have this budget-friendly sauce ready from scratch in just 20 minutes!
Servings 2 cups
Calories 109kcal
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
- 1 Tbsp Corn starch
- 1 Tbsp Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
- ½ tsp Hot chili powder or flakes
- ½ tsp Sweet smoked paprika powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- ⅛ tsp Pepper
- ½ tsp Sriracha (or any other chili paste) optional depending on how hot you like your cheese sauce
Instructions
Prepare ingredients
- 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, carrots, chopped onion, and garlic). Cook them until soft.
- When ready, reserve 1 cup of 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, lemon juice, spices, corn starch, and the reserved cooking water.
- Blend them until you have a creamy sauce.
Video
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Notes
A quick tip: Sauces with added flour and starch must be hot to thicken. It means you have to reheat the sauce in a small pan to activate the flour or the starch properly. Especially if your veggies got cold before blending. The veggies also have starch in them, so the sauce may be thick enough without adding anything else.