Vegan Alfredo Sauce
This is the best vegan Alfredo sauce! Make it in your blender with just a handful of ingredients. It comes out ultra-rich and creamy, and there are so many 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!
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Notes
- *You can easily boil your cashews with just enough water covering them for 5 minutes. Drain, let cool, and proceed! This way you can make the recipe the same day.
- **YES, roasted garlic takes about 40 minutes, but you’ll need to wait for your cashews to soak for an hour at least anyway (or, if you're doing the 5-minute method for boiling your cashews, it's still worth it to roast your garlic for the best flavour)! Cut a bit of the top off of a whole head of garlic, put it in foil, drizzle olive oil on it, wrap the foil around it, and cook it at 450 degrees F for 45 minutes in your oven until the cloves are soft and velvety! Allow it to cool, then push the cloves out.
- You can reheat this! Just reheat it in a stovetop over medium-high heat with a bit more almond milk to thin it out again until hot.
- Prep time doesn’t include soaking the cashews overnight.
Nutrition
Calories: 198kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 367mg | Potassium: 256mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 109mg | Iron: 2mg