Making your own vegan parmesan cheese is so fabulous you’ll likely want to have a permanent batch of this in your refrigerator, so you can sprinkle it on absolutely everything.
And I mean everything.
We sprinkle it on rice dishes, potato dishes, on salads, on the no-cheese thin crust pizza take-outs we buy, on pasta dishes (of course), veggie burgers, and whatever else we can think of!
MY LATEST VIDEOSIf it’s a savory dish then chances are it’ll be even more delicious with a sprinkle of this on top.
Of course it’s vegan so it’s entirely dairy-free.
It’s made from cashews, nutritional yeast, garlic spice and sea salt.
As simple as that!
You need a food processor to make this, and you simply put in the S blade, and pulse it until it’s super fine like you see in the photos.
You don’t just want to run the food processor on this one because, ya know, cashews when processed can start to turn into cashew butter, which you definitely don’t want here.
So pulse it. Don’t set it and forget it.
What do you use your vegan parmesan on?
Let us know in the comments.
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Vegan Parmesan Cheese
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Prep Time: 5 mins - Total Time: 5 mins
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Category: Vegan, Cheese -
Cuisine: Vegan, Dairy-Free
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Pin RecipeDescription
Simple 4-ingredient vegan parmesan cheese! Ideal to sprinkle over absolutely everything, but especially on pastas and vegan pizzas.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (150g) Raw Cashews
- 1/4 cup (15g) Nutritional Yeast
- 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder
- 3/4 tsp Sea Salt
Instructions
- Add the ingredients to the food processor and pulse it on the S blade until it reaches a fine consistency.
- Keep it in a sealable jar in the refrigerator where it will keep for weeks!
- Sprinkle it on pastas, pizzas, casseroles, salads and anywhere else you can possibly think of!
Notes
*This is not my original recipe, other geniuses figured it out! It is a staple in vegan cooking found on numerous vegan blogs. This one I have simply adapted for my own purposes.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Tbsp
- Calories: 48
- Sugar: 0.5g
- Sodium: 111mg
- Fat: 3.5g
- Saturated Fat: 0.6g
- Carbohydrates: 2.8g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 2g
Been waiting for this for ages – absolutely simple and delicious.
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Hi Alison
Where do you buy nutritional yeast from in Dubai?
Thx
Hi Rachel! I’ve bought it from the Organic Cafe before, but most recently just from Geant. They have an organic foods section and it’s in there. 🙂
Fab – thank you. I see so many recipes using nutritional yeast and I’ve never seen any here in dxb (or at least I never remember to look for it when I’m at OC). Good to know its at Geant too.
Not that I am anywhere near being vegan currently, but I do want to move in that direction and the thought of missing out on parmesan is pretty awful so it’s great to have a recipe for an alternative. Yay!! Thanks!
Sure, it’s a pleasure! Yes, I think you’ll like this, nutritional yeast is very ‘cheesy’ in recipes 🙂
Hi! Do you soak the cashews first?
No, definitely not, you want it to all be very dry which is how you get it so crumbly like that. If you soaked them first, it would make a cashew cream instead of a parmesan.
Do you use nutritional flakes or seasoning?
It’s nutritional yeast flakes. I usually have Bob’s Red Mill brand.
Thanks for your quick reply. 😊 It is much appreciated.
This is delicious! Also can be made with English walnuts, equally as good. Great on butternut squash bisque, popcorn, steamed veggies, or anything else!
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Awesome! I must try it with walnuts! And totally agree – it’s great on so many things! 🙂
Would this also work with roasted unsalted cashews?
I think it would be fine – just go easy with the processing – definitely pulse and don’t just run the processor – roasted cashews will want to start turning into cashew butter quite quickly. 😁