Creamy, tangy and perfect vegan sour cream! An ideal replacement for ‘regular’ sour cream, perfect to use wherever a sour cream is needed.
This vegan sour cream is everything you want a sour cream to be, creamy, tangy and rich!
It’s the best accompaniment to a baked potato out there.
In fact, I may or may not have made roughly 10 baked potatoes on the same day I made this batch of vegan sour cream (oh I did!).
It’s amazing as a topping for Mexican dishes like vegan nachos or vegan tacos, as a dip or spread, on top of soups, on a big bowl of vegan chili, as a salad dressing, stirred into your vegan mushroom stroganoff and of course, as mentioned, on top of your baked potatoes (with chives, always with chives!).
How to make vegan sour cream
It’s a super easy 6-ingredient recipe that just involves throwing some raw cashews, water, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, nutritional yeast and sea salt in the blender.
You blend it up until it’s very smooth and there you have it!
Soaking the cashews
You don’t need to soak your cashews first unless your blender is a weak model.
If you know your blender is likely to have a hard time with this, then soaking them for 15 minutes in boiling water is sufficient to soften the cashews enough to make them really easy to blend.
The result is a perfectly creamy, tangy cream with the ideal amount of sour!
Cashews provide the creamy base, and lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and nutritional yeast combine to create the tanginess.
A little sea salt for flavor balance and just enough water for the perfect thickness and you have a perfectly delicious vegan sour cream.
So if you have been wanting a dairy free alternative to regular sour cream then you are going to super pleased because this stuff is the bees knees (whatever the bees knees means, but it’s something good)!
How long does Vegan Sour Cream Last in the Fridge?
It lasts about a week in the fridge in a sealed container.
Can you Freeze Vegan Sour Cream?
Yes it is freezer friendly! So if you think you’ll take longer than a week to eat it all, then definitely freeze some of it. Just place it into a freezer safe container and freeze.
You will love this vegan sour cream, it is:
- Creamy
- Tangy
- Rich
- An ideal replacement for ‘regular’ sour cream
- Raw and gluten-free
Keep it stored in the fridge and consume within a week.
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Vegan Sour Cream
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Yield: 1 cup
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Creamy, tangy and perfect vegan sour cream! An ideal replacement for ‘regular’ sour cream, perfect for use wherever a sour cream is needed. Great in Mexican dishes and delicious on top of a baked potato (with chopped chives, of course!).
Ingredients
- 1 cup (150g) Raw Cashews
- 1/3 cup (80ml) Water
- 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice (Freshly Squeezed)
- 1 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
- 1/2 tsp Sea Salt
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to the blender and blend until very smooth.
- Enjoy wherever sour cream is needed. Great with chopped chives on top!
Notes
*You don’t have to soak the cashews first in this recipe. We didn’t soak them first. But if you know your blender is likely to have a hard time, then you can soak them in boiling water for 15 minutes just to soften them slightly so they’re easier to blend.
- Category: Raw, Gluten-Free, Dip
- Method: Blend
- Cuisine: Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4 of the recipe
- Calories: 212
- Sugar: 2.5g
- Sodium: 297mg
- Fat: 16.5g
- Saturated Fat: 2.9g
- Carbohydrates: 12.3g
- Fiber: 1.3g
- Protein: 7.1g
Keywords: vegan sour cream
Used it for baked sweet potatoes together with guacamole and it was awesome. Our dairy eating dinner guests were asking for the recipe 🙂
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Fantastic! Thanks so much Sylvia. 🙂
My daughter is allergic to cashews, could I use almonds instead?
Hi Jennifer, I think if you use slivered almonds it will be great. It would have a more grainy texture but not in a bad way. 🙂
I made a double batch of this and when I was finished I tasted it and thought was kinda blah. I was going to add some more lemon juice but when I opened my refrigerator door I saw some leftover Chardonnay. I added 1/4 cup, and then another and the result was awesome! It added a subtle combination of sweetness and tart which I can’t really describe. I recommend it!
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Interesting!
This was really great. It does not taste like sour cream however. I used it on angel hair pasta tossed with panfried red green and yellow peppers garlic and onion with a little olive oil. used some of the pasta water to thin it out a bit. and salt and pepper and IT WAS Delicious!!
thank you
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Thanks for sharing Dawn and I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Sounds delicious the way you served it! 🙂