Inspired from various vegan mac and cheese recipes that I saw lately I made my version. I loved it and the best of it: my children actually ate cauliflower. I have to admit I only told them that there was cauliflower in the sauce after they had finished eating. And it gets even better, my son eats cauliflower now, doesn’t matter in which form it appears on the table.
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 115 g/ ¾ cups raw cashews
- 300 g/ about 2 ½ cups chopped cauliflower
- 200 g/ about 1 ¾ cups chopped potatoes
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled but left whole
- 110 g/ ½ cup coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- paprika
- salt
- pepper
- 500 g/ 1 pound elbow macaroni
Instructions
- Soak the cashews in water for about 1 hour.
- Bring two pots of water to a boil. Add the chopped vegetables and the garlic cloves in the smaller pot and cook for about 10 minutes or until they are soft. Keep about ½ cup of the cooking water and drain the rest.
- Cook the macaroni in the other pot. Drain well.
- Blend the vegetables, coconut milk, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, garlic powder, paprika, salt and pepper until really smooth and creamy. Add some of the cooking water little by little to reach the right consistency. Adjust the taste again and serve immediately.
12 comments
I would lick that creamy sauce CLEAN! Love what you eat….delicious, yet nutritious and healthy.
Absolutely delish looking vegan mac and cheese!
Thank you both, Angie and Anu!
Sounds tasty, but I would skip the half teaspoon of garlic powder! 😀
I am sure you would, Mario. But you missed the two garlic cloves, what about them? 🙂
Damn! So I sort them out for vampire defense 🙂
I love how thick and creamy the sauce looks! I’m really liking the cashews in it. This is such great vegan version of mac and cheese.
Thank you, Thao. It is so rich, you won’t even think is vegan.
The sauce looks so creamy and thick, I never would have thought to put potatoes in the sauce. Great idea, love it!
Thank you, Jo. The potatoes thicken the sauce nicely.
This mac looks amazing! I need to start stockpiling hidden veggie recipes for when I have kids someday! In the meantime I don’t mind doing all the tasting 🙂
Oh, you will need those recipes. Especially during the period when the children are between 2 and 5 I would say. At first they will eat anything and you will think you do everything right and your kids are something special. Then they turn 2 and the horror starts… My son was really bad, but during the last year things started to pick up a bit. So I still have hope for my daughter, she was never so bad in the first place. 🙂