By: Author Lisa Viger Gotte
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Vegan Cheese Sauce is easy to make when you start with already cooked potatoes and carrots. No nuts here, either. Just delicious vegetables. Make your sauce creamier with added oil, or keep it light and go without.
Vegan Cheese Sauce is Easy and Inexpensive
I love vegan cheese sauce. It’s so easy to make. Or it’s easy to make once you peel and boil the potatoes and carrots.
This recipe uses simple canned potatoes and carrots for those days you just don’t have a lot of time to spend cooking. Vegan cheese sauce made this way is almost instant. It really doesn’t take much more time than the packaged stuff and it’s so much healthier and it’s also inexpensive. Also, the other ingredients are what most of us keep as staples in our pantries.
I got the canned potatoes and carrots on sale for $.59 each. The rest of the ingredients add just a bit more as far as cost. This entire batch can be made for less than $2. What a bargain.
One 15 oz can of whole potatoes and one 15 oz can of sliced carrots are perfect amounts to make a dinner-sized batch of delicious, creamy cheese sauce. There will be enough yummy cheese to add to a full package of pasta for mac and cheese, to use as the base for a party-sized queso dip, or a family dinner of Vegan Taco Fries.
Whatever you use this for, it’s so simple and inexpensive and turns out delicious.
10 Yummy Ways to Use Almost Instant Vegan Cheese Sauce
- Pour over french fries, baked potatoes, tator tots, or hash browns.
- Or, use generously over broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cooked peas and carrots, or any vegetable.
- Over any kind of pasta. Use elbows to make traditional mac and cheese, or bow ties with sauteed mushrooms for even more yum.
- Added to rice and vegetables for a creamy cheesiness.
- Use for tacos, taco salad, or taco fries.
- As a delicious nacho dip for tortilla chips. Add spices as desired.
- Mix well with some refried beans, jalapenos and spices for a zesty Mexican dip.
- With bread. Use as a dip for breadsticks or even make a cheese sauce filled bread bowl.
- Add to broccoli and/or potato soup to make it cheesy. And saucy.
- Serve with soft or hard pretzels, crackers, or pita.
5 from 3 votes
Almost Instant Vegan Cheese Sauce
Vegan Cheese Sauce is easy to make when you use already cooked potatoes and carrots. No nuts here, either. Just delicious vegetables. Make your sauce creamier with added oil, or keep it light and go without.
CourseSauce
CuisineVegan
KeywordVegan Cheese Sauce
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 125 kcal
Ingredients
- 15ozcanned whole potatoes, drained
- 15ozcanned sliced carrots, drained
- 1cupunsweetened plant milk MUST be unsweetened
- 3tbsplemon juice
- 3tbspnutritional yeast flakes
- 3tbspolive oiloptional
- 1tspgarlic powder
- 1tsponion powder
- 1/2tspsalt
- 1/2tsppaprika
- 1/4-1/2tspcrushed red pepper flakesoptional
- 1/4tspblack or white pepper
Instructions
Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender and process until very smooth and creamy.
Taste test and adjust seasoning if needed.
Use in mac and cheese, or over any pasta and vegetable dish, as a dip, with nachos, or any other way you'd use a thick, creamy, delicious cheese sauce.
Recipe Notes
The plant milk must be unsweetened. I use So Delicious unsweetened coconut milk for this because it has a mild flavor. Unsweetened almond, hemp, oat, soy, or rice milk would also work.
Adding oil makes this sauce super creamy. It does improve it just a little. However, this is also a perfectly delicious sauce without any added oil. It feels and tastes a little more starchy, but it's still yummy. Add about 75 calories per serving if using oil.
Nutrition Facts
Almost Instant Vegan Cheese Sauce
Amount Per Serving
Calories 125
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Lisa Viger Gotte
Hello! I’m Lisa, a vegan artist, photographer, author, Vegan Life Coach Educator, and RYT 200 yoga teacher. I love showing others how simple and delicious a plant-based diet can be. I draw and paint, cook, write, take lots of pics, eat lots of chocolate, and practice gratitude daily.
