5 Minute Cashew Cheese Sauce


5 Minute Cashew Cheese Sauce
Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.

Creamy five minute vegan cashew cheese sauce. Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon!

Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.
Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.

Cashew cream sauce. I keep going back for more. Skipping the spoon and diving in finger style. You’re just THAT GOOD. Who loves cheesy flavor minus the cheese? This giiiirl! Now, cashew cheese sauce may not be for everyone, but I dare you not to fall in love with this ultra creamy, want-to-go-back-for-more, cashew “cheese” sauuuce (sans cheese).

Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.
Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.
How to make creamy cashew sauce

If you have made your way into my corner of the internet before, you’re probably familiar with the fact that my food processor is the most used item in my kitchen! Day and night, this thing gets used to mix, whip, and blend all kinds of tasty!

…And um, did I mention the fact that this sauce is made and ready for digging in, in just 5 minutes!? Five minutes people. Happiness, I hear you!

Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.

Not sponsored, but I get asked it a lot, so I thought I would skip all the inevitable and just answer your question right now: this is the food processor I use. And I love it! It whips, it blends, it mashes, it makes your creamy cashew cheese sauce creaaaamy!

Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.
Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.

If you’re stumped on what to pair this cheese sauce with (other than using it soley for finger dipping, of course) here are a few of my favorites uses for this sauce:

  • dipping veggies
  • mac n’ cheese!!!!
  • chicken alfredo
  • tuna noodle casserole
  • chip dippin’

… the list goes on, need I say more? Basically, you just need this sauce in your life, because the garlicky, zesty, cheesy, creamy factor is obsession level over here. πŸ™‚

Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.
Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.
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5 Minute Cashew Cheese Sauce
Creamy five minute vegan cashew cheese sauce. Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon!
Ingredients
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Prep Time 5 minutes
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Course Sauce
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Rating: 3.68
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Servings
batch
Course Sauce
Votes: 115
Rating: 3.68
You:
Rate this recipe!
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Puree all ingredients together in food processor or high powered blender for 3-5 minutes until completely smooth. Serve or store in fridge for up to one week.
Nutrition Facts
5 Minute Cashew Cheese Sauce
Amount Per Serving
Calories 456 Calories from Fat 297
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 33g 51%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Polyunsaturated Fat 5g
Monounsaturated Fat 19g
Sodium 926mg 39%
Potassium 406mg 12%
Total Carbohydrates 30g 10%
Dietary Fiber 5g 20%
Sugars 6g
Protein 17g 34%
Vitamin A 0.1%
Vitamin C 12%
Calcium 4%
Iron 33%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Creamy 5 minute vegan cashew cheese sauce! Whole30, paleo, and dairy free. Whipped smooth, made with raw cashews, and tastes like the perfect cheese dip for vegetables, chips, served over noodles, or licked straight off the spoon! Dairy free cheese. Dairy free Alfredo. Easy Cashew cheese. Homemade cashew cheese. easy vegan paleo cheese recipe. Best Dairy free cashew cheese recipe.

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  1. 6
    Tina

    This was really good! I didn’t roast mine, just because I wanted to eat it “now”, lol. What I did do that made it super easy, was I ground the cashews to a powder in my 20-year-old little Cuisinart coffee grinder. Super smooth.

  2. 9
    Alicia Stelzer

    Bomb! Ooooey, gooey, amazing! Thank you!! My husband loved it and he usually cringes at my “healthy alternatives.” Thank you so much. This is a game changer for me!

  3. 23
    Iva M Loftman

    So…this looks absolutely fabulous (plus super easy), and I’ve been wanting to try cashew cheese for a long time. But…sometimes cashews give me a problem and I’ve been looking at trying soaking first to see if that helps. If I soak, do I need to dry/roast the nuts, or can I just drain and use? Thanks so much!

  4. 27
    Ardis Miller

    I have heard of these chesse and tried it the other day at a vegan restr. It was mixed with salsa and it was delicious.
    I just wrote down your recipe and I am going to make it. I have tried vegan cheese bought in the store and do not
    like any of them. I guess thats just my preference.

  5. 28
    TRish

    I was wondering if I can skip the nutritional yeast? Can you tell me also what does it do / bring to this recipe? Thanks

  6. 31
    Heather

    I added a small jar of pimentos. Adds color and slight flavor to it. I had a recipe I can no longer find that was like yours but with pimentos. Just thought that may interest you. That’s all πŸ™‚

  7. 32
    DaliaC

    This is such a great idea! I’ve heard of it before but to be honest I’ve never actually tried it. It looks really simple to make so I’m pretty sure that I’ll give it a try as soon as possible :-D.

  8. 37
    Laura kleban

    I’m Paleo and struggle to find good cheese sauce replacements, so I was excited to try this! I thought it was really tasty, more like an alfredo sauce, which was very good on Spaghetti Squash with some Ghee. I did have to add more water and even though I have a very powerful food processor, I had to blend this suce for a full five minutes to get the consistency I desired, which was still not as creamy looking as your pictures, but it did the trick. Thanks for the great recipe, I will pass it along.

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