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This Easy Vegan Cheese Is The Best Alternative Cheese I've Found

Text: vegan cheese without sweet potato with a photo of the cheese sauce

Why I Love This No Sweet Potato Vegan Alternative Cheese


To start, there is no sweet potato in my vegan alternative cheese! Many of the recipes I've tried, while tasty, always were on the sweeter side. Using squash, I eliminate the sweetness, but keep the creaminess!


Secondly, this is a pretty easy recipe, I follow my easy pressure-cooked spaghetti recipe. Minimal dishes and I don't have to heat the house - sign me up!


Finish reading this post to learn my best tips & tricks for this recipe.


Angie's Tips For The Best Vegan Alternative Cheese Sauce


In the past, I've tried other vegan alternative cheese sauces. While tasty and slightly creamy, they do not compare to this vegan cheese sauce using squash. This sauce is creamy and velvety smooth. Check out the image below and compare how it looks to a regular cheese sauce!


Top tips for a smooth sauce:


  • Ensure your squash is cooked thoroughly - it should be able to be pierced easily with a fork

  • Depending on your blender, you may need to blend the squash & a little milk first, then add other ingredients and blend again

  • Ingredients - I always recommend adding less liquid ingredients first (for example 1/4 cup milk vs 1/2 cup), because you can always add more milk, but once it's in, it's hard to get it less liquidy

  • If you do find your sauce too thick, add more milk (or water), and if it's too thin add more nutritional yeast. You can also try flour, but I haven't tested that and I would only add 1 teaspoon or less of flour.

Freshly made pasta is tossed with vegan cheese

Substitutes For Vegan Cheese Sauce


You may be wondering if you can use any substitutes in this recipe - you sure can! Just keep reading to learn substitutes.


Substitutes for vegan cheese sauce:


  • Squash - sub for sweet potato or butternut squash

  • Golden Mellow - sub for turmeric

  • Coconut milk - sub with regular unflavored dairy milk, or any other non-dairy unflavored milk alternative

  • Apple Cider Vinegar - sub with regular white vinegar and a squeeze of lemon juice


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