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FAQs and substitutions Can you use other veggies?Ĭarrots and sweet potatoes are somewhat interchangeable in this recipe. What is your favorite topping? Let us know in the comments. eggplant meatballs, chickpea meatballs, vegan meatballs, or IKEA veggie balls.green peas, corn, or any other canned legume.Now, you have a gooey, cheesy, and creamy vegan mac and cheese sauce, which is already great on its own. Or you can add a bit of rice flour or corn/arrowroot/tapioca starch to make the sauce even gooier and thicker. In this recipe, the easiest is to put it back in the pot and cook it down because the root veggies already have a starch content. What if it is not thick enough? – There are 20 ways to thicken something.We took new photos for this recipe after buying a Vitamix and there was a huge difference. They all make a creamy sauce. However, if you need this sauce to be extra smooth without a single little piece to find, we recommend using a high-powered blender like Vitamix*. Vitamix vs regular blender – You can certainly use a hand blender (aka immersion blender), a food processor, or a regular blender.The smaller you cut the veggies, the shorter will be the cooking time. Chop vegetables evenly and small – All root veggies are hard, so they need a long time to get tender.Blend them until you have a creamy sauce. When pasta is ready, drain the water.Add sunflower seeds (no need to soak them), nutritional yeast, salt, pepper, sweet paprika powder, and rice flour or corn starch.Transfer all cooked vegetables into a blender.When they are fork-tender and ready, drain them, but reserve 1 cup of the cooking water.īlending them to make a vegan cheese sauce Add vegetable broth and cook them over medium heat until all of them are soft.

Take a large pot or stockpot and add all vegetables (diced potatoes, diced sweet potatoes, diced carrots, chopped onion, and garlic) at once.The smaller you dice them, the shorter will be the cooking time. Wash, peel, and dice potatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots.Boil water and cook pasta as per instructions on the packaging.Since this recipe is a vegan mac and cheese without nuts, no soaking or overnight preparation is needed. 🛒 You can find detailed measurements for all ingredients in the printable version of the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

You can use up any potatoes or carrots you don’t need for your more intricate main dinner course. Since you only need a handful of things to make 6 servings, you can do a sort of leftover version. No vegan butter, no oat milk, almond milk, or any fancy ingredient is needed. As far as I know, a clove equals to ¼ teaspoon of garlic powder.

Garlic – We used raw garlic, but you can use garlic powder instead.

As far as I know, 1 cup of chopped onions equals to 1 tablespoon of onion powder.

Onion – We used raw onion, but you can use onion powder.

Some readers had success with pumpkin seeds (aka pepitas) as well.

Sunflower seeds – You can try using other seeds as well, but sunflower seed has the most neutral and the least nutty taste among them all.

You can have the best creaminess if you use a high-power blender like Vitamix. This dairy-free mac and cheese sauce requires only 7 ingredients and a really good blender.

Carrots and sweet potatoes give it an orange hue, which brings the color closer to a cheddar sauce.

If you don’t like its taste, I heard good things about white miso paste and chickpea miso as a substitute. It will taste mature, nutty, rich, and a bit overpowering. And this will be reflected in the final flavor.

If you have tasted nutritional yeast, you’ll know that it is much closer to dairy Parmesan cheese than dairy mozzarella.

Sunflower seeds make them heavy and filling.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes will give an absolutely creamy texture.

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