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Vegan mac and cheese with squash and cashews

The cheese sauce without cheese: squash and cashews, blended, over pasta

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Vegan mac and cheese with squash and cashews
25minutes
694Calories
20gProtein
2servings

Cashews turn as creamy as cream in a blender, squash gives colour and sweetness, mustard and lemon the sharpness you know from cheese. Nobody misses anything.

Ingredients

Forservings
  • 200 gMacaroni
  • 250 gSquash, diced
  • 60 gCashews
  • 200 mlAlmond milk, unsweetened
  • 15 gOlive oil (1 tbsp)
  • 10 gMustard (2 tsp)
  • 10 gLemon juice (2 tsp)
  • Garlic, paprika, nutmeg, nutritional yeast to taste, salt

How to make it

  1. Soak the cashews in hot water for 15 minutes. Boil the squash soft in salted water and drain it.
  2. Cook the pasta.
  3. Blend the squash, drained cashews, almond milk, oil, mustard, lemon, garlic and spices smooth, then salt.
  4. Warm the sauce in a pot and fold in the pasta.

One tip

A tablespoon of nutritional yeast brings the savoury cheese note if you miss it.

Nutrition per serving

Calories694
Protein20 g
Fat23 g
Carbs100 g

Calculated from the ingredients, using values per 100 grams from USDA FoodData Central. The calories come from the macronutrients, not from the energy field of the database.

kcal

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