Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

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Recipe submitted by emily@pioneer-net.com

Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

2 cups water
1/4 cup tomatoes
1/4 cup raw almonds
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 tablespoon sea salt
1/2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoon corn starch
1/4 cup nutritional yeast

Directions:

Blend all ingred. in blender till very smooth. Pour in 2 quart saucepan and cook on med. heat until thick, wisking constantly. Use as a cheese sauce for macaroni or on vegies or whatever you like.

Preparation time: 1/2 hour

This sauce is really great! If you like to sprinkle nutritional yeast on your food, you'll love it! I made baked potatoes topped with broccoli and smothered in this sauce. Mmmmm!

Archived comment by: krista

Made macaroni and cheese tonight using the Melty Cheese Sauce. My family loved it. Very KID APPROVED! This is a good one!

Archived comment by: sandy

Thank you for this great sauce recipe. I made this for my family last night and it was a BIG HIT! We used it as a cheese sauce over vegan soft tacos. Very tasty!

Archived comment by: carmen

This is a great recipe. I just made it today, and I put it on my pasta. It was awesome even though I used sunflower seeds, because I didn't have any almonds.

Archived comment by: nICKI

Kick butt recipie!!! I like to have something easy to make when company is over and salsa needs a friend!!!

Archived comment by: jim

I don't know. I thought this tasted much more like gravy than cheese sauce. It wasn't bad, but I wouldn't use it on nachos or macaroni. It would probably be good on potatoes though.

Archived comment by: heather

yum yum yum!!!!

Archived comment by: alexis

This sauce is great! I used it to top a shepherds pie and as a dip.

Archived comment by: dolliez_1

I used it alllllll over a Sunday morning tofu/veggie scramble and potatoes. It made a relatively good-for-you breakfast taste really decadent and wonderful. Its really yummy stuff.

Archived comment by: msp

in one word...WOW!!!!! I had to subsitute (LIME juice, tomato SAUCE, and cashews instead of almonds), and it still came out wonderfully. I'll definitely be making more.

Archived comment by: vanessaaah

I am not a very good cook so I followed the recipe exactly and my friends and family didn't even know this had no cheese in it!!! Its aswome on pasta, potatoes and tacos!!!!

Archived comment by: drummergirl

I wanna try this...but don't have nutritional yeast, and hate to buy it just for this- supposin I leave it out? -or can I substitute something for it? Huh

Please respond! Dying to make whole-wheat spaghetti-alfredo with this stuff! Thanks!

Archived comment by: sirFartsAlot

It wouldn't taste like cheese without the nutritional yeast. Go to a health food store and buy some bulk so you know how much you want. You will probably use more again anyway.

Archived comment by: harpua

deeeelicious. I put it on tortilla chips for a snack. even my carnivore mom liked it!

Archived comment by: harpua

Nice. Had a certain sort of `earthy` cheesiness to it. I used sunflower seeds in place of almonds and I also used asafoetida in place of the garlic and onions as I didn`t have any. Light and satisfying.

Archived comment by: narayani

I varied this recipe by using only 1-1/2 cups of water, adding 1/4 t. paprika and 1/8 t. turmeric. The resulting sauce tasted a lot like muenster.

Archived comment by: observer788

i used cashew butter instead of the almonds and it was fabulous

Archived comment by: veggiewedgie

This is a really good recipe it taste just like cheese, although a little tip for everyone is to get almonds without the skin or else you end up with little brown speckles through out your meal.

Archived comment by: nerdpanda

This is very tasty and satisfying. I made this using sunflower seeds and only half the required amount of water, in order to make a very thick cheesy spread. I then spread it over pizza dough, sprinkled it with spices and toppings and baked it into a very yummy pizza.

Archived comment by: veganosaurus

This is a keeper! Yummy! I used mine for pizza. Will definitely be making again and again.

Archived comment by: earthmother

This recipe is amazing! Tastes GREAT as macaroni and cheese. I used spaghetti sauce for the tomato, and it turned out fine.

Thanks for this recipe.

Archived comment by: brachypelmic

This stuff is seriously excellent! I didn't make any changes, and despite a near blender leakage disaster, everything came out amazingly. I followed another users comments and used mine for pizza. I had some leftover, but somehow couldnt help but dip my pizza crusts in it until I had eaten the whole batch!! Thank goodness this stuff is low-cal. According to my little calculations, its roughly 280 calories for the whole batch! Give it a try, you won't be sorry

Archived comment by: applejacks582

After trying the first batch, and my son eating it from the bowl with a spoon, I made a whole batch and put it in the dehydrator. I then powdered the sauce in a coffee grinder. I keep it in a sealed jar in the fridge, I add it to my dehydrated backpacking meals as cheese sauce. Delicious and lightweight!

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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2006, 05:43:54 PM »

I love this recipe. And it's essentially fail-safe. Want proof?

I've had it twice before, and this time around I was grinding my cashews and yeast (I always use cashews instead of almonds, simply because I am so fond of them) when I realized I didn't have any lemon, tomato/bell pepper/something remotely red, or plain/unsweetened soymilk (I use half soymilk half water to make the sauce creamier, à la macaroni-and-cheese). I replaced the lemon with some lemon ginger salad dressing and a tiny bit of rice vinegar and the soymilk with (gasp, the greatest no-no of any savory recipe that includes soymilk) VANILLA soymilk. Yes, vanilla.

Anyway, the sauce came out fine! Nuts and nutritional yeast is what really makes this recipe.

(and on top of that, I overcooked my macaroni.)

Now I'm waiting for some poor soul to slave away in the kitchen and make us a good recipe for mozzarella, gorgonzola, or brie =D


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2006, 08:17:02 PM »

knocked me off of my rocker! As a new vegan, i almost came close a couple of times to giving in to my cheese cravings - This satisfied that craving!!!! The first time I have ever had a recipe come out right the first time! YUM!!!


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2006, 02:14:37 PM »

It sounds great, but I have one question - what's nutritional yeast? Huh


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2007, 04:20:59 PM »

This is a great recipe!!! It tastes very close to real cheese... thank you so much, I have been wanting some cheese soooo bad!!!


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2007, 12:03:10 AM »

This sauce is so good over the broccoli rice and chees recipe from this site. I only use it for that I need to try it over macaroni. Oh yeah I use it in my lasagna too. Everyone loves it when I make it.


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2007, 06:46:45 PM »

Oh. My. God. Cheesy

This was the most incredible cheese sauce EVER!!! I was a little bit nervous at how it all looked sitting in the blender prior to the actual blending... And I've made faux cheese sauces before with horrible results. I seriously could not believe my tastebuds when I tried this! It gets so thick & rich & YUM! I made this sauce to go with the Cheesy Potato Casserole recipe from this site, and it was simply amazing. I cannot thank the creator of this "cheese" recipe enough!

This would be perfect on broccoli, potatoes (any veggies!), as a macaroni & cheese sauce... Or (as I did before using the rest in my casserole), as a nacho cheese dip! I cannot get over it. You must try it!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Oh, three changes:
-I used leftover spaghetti sauce instead of tomatoes.
-I used unsalted, raw cashews instead of almonds, because that is what I had on hand!
-I added about 1 tsp. of minced garlic, and a bit of freshly ground black pepper.

Again, WOW!


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2007, 06:51:46 PM »

Oh, P.S. I also have not been the biggest fan of nutritional yeast in the past, but this recipe turned it into something beautiful! I just can't believe how delicious it is... I'd be so bold as to say BETTER tasting (not to mention MUCH healthier) than regular old melted cow's milk cheese. Yum! Shocked


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2007, 09:05:46 PM »

This recipe is spot on! It tastes just like cheese, but without all the ickiness!
Makes me wanna curl up with a big ol' pile of nachos and salsa Grin

I can't wait to try this on pasta and veggies.
Thanks!


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2007, 09:52:47 PM »

Really great recipe!! I used this cheese sauce to make a 'cheesy potato casserole' dish from vegweb and it was fantastic. I used sunflower seeds and oatmeal in place of the almonds and am SO PLEASED with the way this looked and tasted! This will be my 'go to' recipe for cheese sauce from now on for everything from veggies to mac and cheese.


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2007, 01:55:00 PM »

Great tasting and oh so easy...try it!!

My mods:

I used sunflower seeds instead of almonds and grinded the seeds in my coffee grinder first. I also used an immersion blender in the same pot I used to cook it.....really easy. Took me about 15 minutes from start to finish. Put it over steamed carrots, broccoli and pasta. Thanks!!


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Re: Melty Cheese (Mock Cheese Sauce)

« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2009, 05:33:41 PM »

Is there a way to make this without nuts? My friend is somewhat allergic to them, but I know she would love something like this. Please help? Undecided


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