(Actually Good) Vegan Cheese Sauce

I’ve tried so many vegan cheese recipes and they all taste, well, not like cheese. So I gave up and made my own. You can mix the sauce into macaroni, drizzle over fries, or use it in any other deserving dish.

Step: 1

Fill a pot with water and bring to a boil. Add potatoes, carrots, bell pepper, and onion and cook until potatoes are tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Cook 1 more minute. Drain.

Step: 2

Combine potatoes, carrots, bell pepper, onion, hummus, coconut milk, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, garlic powder, black pepper, and salt in a blender or food processor; blend until smooth and creamy.

Per Serving: 153 calories; protein 4.5g; carbohydrates 22.4g; fat 5.9g; sodium 163.7mg.

One of most obvious way to choose a side dish is to look at your main dish (pasta, chicken, seared tofu) and pick something different. If you’re making pasta, go for a simple vegetable . Making steak? Go for something light. If you’re making stir-fry with rice, it must not a good idea to also make a rice salad.

This also can apply to cooking method . You don’t want to overcommit your oven by making to do list three dishes at once in there, or be rounding four pans on the cooking items . But sometimes you can make a dish do double-duty .