35 Best Vegan Sauces (Easy & Tasty)
Here are 35 Best Vegan Sauces’ Recipes! They’re all easy, creamy, tasty and so incredibly versatile! It’s a mix of sweet and savoury sauces, and you’re bound to find many that you love!
Happy September friends! Last month I had a live cooking show with a fellow incredible blogger friend Jenné of Sweet Potato Soul where we made my Tahini Mug Cake for our audiences. While we measured and mixed, I began to answer an audience question and began to list a couple of my favourite vegan sauces, which coincidentally, I’ve all made recipes on the blog for. She asked if I had a roundup of all my vegan sauces on the blog.
I realise: wait! I don’t! How don’t I?! What a fantastic idea! I knew I had to remedy this as soon as I could because friends: vegan sauces are like, the glue that holds together all your sweet and savoury meals! Not literally, thankfully, but I slap a sauce on pretty much everything. Not because it’s dry or “needs” it, but because it completes it.
So remedy, here we are. It’s safe to say I have a lot of sauces! Here’s a roundup of all my favourite vegan sauces on the blog. For the sake of inclusivity and having one-stop for all the sauces/condiments available I’ve included my version of vegan mayo, and one or two salad dressings versatile and creamy enough to also be a sauce. They range from Alfredo sauces to cheese sauces, to bbq sauces, to even sweet sauces like blueberry sauce and caramel sauce and cashew whipped cream! The possibilities are endless. I’ll add a little blurb beside some of them to show how I love to use it. I hope you thoroughly enjoy them!
P.S. skip the harissa if you don't have it/can't find it make my sesame tahini dressing instead This sauce is featured in everything from these 15 minute noodles, to my stir fry recipes to even my sticky sesame cauliflower wings. A friend Leanne was the first who told me that she started to make the sauce itself and use it on everything. It works so well on pretty much anything, as a coating, or as a dip. Sometimes the simplest of sauces make the biggest impact! I first used this sauce on these lettuce wraps which it totally transformed. From there it's graced everything from cauliflower bites to vegan meatballs From meatballs to tofu to noodles, add this to everything! The sauce that graces my most popular game day cauliflower wings also did wonders for my vegan meatballs. This one is SPICY! Spice lovers are welcome! It took me a few tries to get this one perfect, but after I did it reminded me of every orange bite I had growing up from my favourite restaurants. It's the perfect combo of sweet and tangy and should be drizzled on everything! 35 Best Vegan Sauces (Easy & Tasty Recipes)
Harissa Tahini Dressing
Maple Ginger Sauce
Sweet Sriracha Sauce
Vegan Teriyaki Sauce (Sweet & Sticky)
Sweet Buffalo Sauce
Orange Sauce
Vegan Alfredo Sauce + 5 Ways to Use it
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons vegan butter, or olive oil
- 1/2 red onion, chopped
- 1 cup raw cashews, soaked overnight, OR soaked in HOT water for 1 hour OR just easily boiled for 5 minutes*
- 1/4 cup pasta water, or filtered water
- 1 ½ cups unsweetened almond milk
- 4 cloves roasted garlic, **
- 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- ½ teaspoon sea salt, or more to taste
- 2 tablespoons vegan Parmesan cheese, + extra for topping
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
Instructions
- In a pan over medium-high heat, heat the vegan butter or olive oil. Add the onion, stir and let cook until translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Remove the onions from the pan and add it to a blender. Add the rinsed off soaked cashews (without the water), the pasta water, the almond milk, the roasted garlic, the nutritional yeast, the sea salt, the vegan parmesan cheese and the lime juice.
- Blend it all together until completely creamy. If you have a high powered blender this will happen quickly, about 1 minute, if not, just keep blending until completely smooth and creamy. Taste and add more salt or vegan parmesan cheese if necessary. Serve it with your desired dish or store in an airtight jar until you're ready to use it!
Notes
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