This vegan cashew tofu ricotta is blended with fresh basil and has a mild savory flavor perfect for lasagna, toast, or your favorite pasta dish. It’s quick and easy to make, and completely dairy free!
Vegan Cheese Recipes
Vegan cheese has come a long way over the years! Old school dairy free cheeses meant plasticky store bought vegan cheese or cheese sauce made with nutritional yeast.
Modern recipes call for culturing the cheese, typically made from raw cashews, to achieve a sharp, tangy flavor similar to dairy cheese. Many store bought vegan cheeses use this method, making all kinds of cheese available on the market from mozzarella to Parmesan.
While store bought vegan cheese is delicious, there are many types of gourmet cheeses you can make at home. Since it will require culturing, it can also be a fun project.
If you'd like to delve into the world of making cultured or aged vegan cheese, you'll need to start by making Rejuvelac, a probiotic liquid that can be used to culture vegan cheese. A good first recipe to try is Cultured Cashew Cheese Spread.
Once you've mastered vegan cheese, make a fancy vegan cheese board!
5 Minute Vegan Parmesan Cheese with Walnuts and Cashews
You'll want to sprinkle this vegan Parmesan cheese on all your pasta dishes, sandwiches, and salads! It's made with cashews and walnuts, but you can use any kind of nuts you like. It's also soy free, gluten free, and only takes 5 minutes to make.
Cultured Cashew & Sunflower Seed Cheese
This vegan sunflower seed cheese is blended with cashews and cultured overnight for a sharp, tangy flavor. Mix in your favorite herbs and veggies, and spread it on bread or crackers! Please note that this recipe calls for rejuvelac, a fermented liquid used in vegan cheesemaking, which takes several days to make. It's pretty easy […]
Artisan Vegan Cheese Board
Today's Vegan MoFo theme is "party!": canapés, finger foods, and shareable appetizers. Since I've been working my way through Miyoko Schinner's Artisan Vegan Cheese cookbook, I decided to bring all of these cashew cheese experiments together into a vegan cheese board! Artisan Vegan Cheese Let's talk about Artisan Vegan Cheese! So, I'm about 5 years […]
Miyoko's Cultured Cashew Cream Cheese
Happy Fall, Autumn Equinox, vegan PSL weather, back to school, cold weather, and most relevant here, cooking and baking weather! When it's too hot to cook, Chicago offers plenty of summer dishes, markets, and restaurant specials. While I wasn't doing much recipe creating over the summer, I did try a few new things like making […]
Vegan Cultured Cashew Cheese Spread without Nutritional Yeast
This vegan cashew cheese spread is made with raw cashews cultured with rejuvelac without nutritional yeast or other flavorings! It has a mild, tangy flavor just like regular cheese, but is completely dairy free! It can be served as an appetizer as a spread or dip, or used as a base for other vegan cheese recipes.