The best, easy vegan mac and cheese recipe with broccoli, roasted sweet potato and cashews. So simple a kid could do it!
Vegan mac and cheese tastes amazing!
Sweet potato and butternut squash (even carrots & pumpkin) are totally interchangeable in this recipe so feel free to swap one for the other if you like. I’ll usually roast a big batch of them to have for the week, so really whatever is in the fridge is going in here.
It’s so delicious, I’m making it for Thanksgiving you guys!
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Easy Vegan Mac and Cheese
The best, easy vegan mac and cheese recipe with broccoli, roasted sweet potato, nutritional yeast and cashews.
Ingredients
Vegan Cheese Sauce
- 1 cup raw cashews (soaked)
- 1 cup roasted sweet potato -mashed
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 pinch chili powder (optional)
- 1.5 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2.5 tbsp tapioca
- 1 pinch sea salt to taste
- 2 cups water
Pasta
- 3/4 lb whole wheat elbow macaroni pasta
- 3 cups broccoli florets + more
Instructions
Make the Cheese Sauce:
Rinse and soak the cashews in hot water for 3 hours or in cold water overnight.
Drain and rinse again then add them to a powerful blender together with the roasted potato, nutritional yeast, all the spice and water. Process until silky smooth.
Transfer the cheese sauce to a medium pot and bring to a simmer. Stir well for a few minutes until thick and creamy. Remove from flame, taste and adjust seasonings with sea salt and black pepper to taste.
Cook the Pasta:
Meanwhile bring a large pot of water to a boil and add a good pinch of salt (the water should taste like the ocean). Add the macaroni and cook for 2 minutes less than the instructions on the box say.
Add the broccoli florets to the pot with the pasta and simmer together for 2 minutes. The pasta and broccoli should be perfectly cooked al dente at this point but give it a taste anyways. You don’t want overcook them.
Drain the pasta and broccoli in a colander then add them to the pot with the cheese sauce.
Toss everything to coat well in the cheese sauce and serve hot.
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Roasted Red Pepper Pasta
Vegan Alfredo Sauce
Italian Veggie Pasta Salad
Hi. I really want to make this but I simply cannot afford to buy nuts as it is too expensive here. Anything else I can substitute for the nuts?
Try replacing the nuts with cooked white beans instead, I think that would work nice.
This Mac and cheese was incredible, the picky eaters approve and I got them to eat all their broccoli too. Can’t wait to try more of your recipes Florentina, thank you for sharing this.