Plant-Based Cashew Cheese Dip
This plant-based cashew-based cheese is great on everything from veggies to pizza.
Yield: 1 cup
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw cashews
- Juice of ½ lemon
- 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
- Salt (optional) and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
Instructions
- 1. Soak the cashews in 1 cup of water for at least 2 hours. Drain.
- 2. Place the cashews, lemon juice, and nutritional yeast in a blender and blend until smooth, adding 1 Tbsp of water at a time, or up to 1 cup, to make the cashew mixture creamy but not runny. Season to taste with salt (optional) and pepper.
- 3. Refrigerate until cool.
Cooking Tips
Cooking Tips
- 1. To make herbed cashew cheese, add 2 Tbsp of chopped fresh rosemary and 2 Tbsp of chopped fresh dill, stirring them in with a spoon.
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