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Very addicting and very creamy vegan queso sauce recipe ♥︎
Velvety, cheesy and slightly spicy vegan queso sauce is just everything you can wish for. It’s a wonderful savory dip that happens to be super versatile: perfect for dipping tortilla chips, potato wedges and veggie sticks, great as a pasta sauce, burrito filling or you know, to eat it with a spoon…just as it is.
There are just about 1000 amazing vegan cheesy sauce recipes which I like or which I have pinned and wanna try, but this one is one of my favorites. I love cauliflower sauces, potato sauces (especially since I discovered this great trick to use sweet potatoes) and milk+tapioca flour ones. They are all great low fat options and easy to make, but you still have to cook them a little bit (and peel the potatoes, etc.). However, cashew sauces take just about 5 minutes to make, if have soaked the nuts or have a good blender. And even if you forget to do so, you can just cook the cashews for 5-10 minutes and they are perfectly soft – I do this all the time.
I have to tell you that I won the lottery with my boyfriend. When we met about 5 years ago, he was a crazy meat fan, all he ate was frozen pizza, weird canned food and everything from McDonald’s or Burger King. Though he always says he wasn’t as crazy as I say, I definitely haven’t met anybody else before who ate that much junk food. I remember I told him once I want a salad and I was totally shocked when he was able to make one. Wow, he knew what were vegetables! Then as time went by and we moved together he slowly changed. He started to eat more and more veggies, he appreciated home cooked meals and he even started to cook vegan meals. Nowadays he cooks very well, drinks his spirulina smoothies every morning, looks for great vegan restaurants and meals, and talks about quinoa and dairy alternatives with his family. And he loves plant cheeses! Though he is sometimes raising eyebrows when I say zucchini or cauliflower cheese, cashew cheese sauce is something he looooves (who doesn’t, right?). I really did not plan to post this recipe. But then I realized that this is such a staple recipe in our lives. I have to share it. Such a boyfriend pleaser.
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Easy Vegan Queso Sauce
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 3 cups 1x
Ingredients
- 1 can of black beans
- 1 onion
- 1/2 bell pepper
- 1 tbsp olive oil (optional)
- 1 cup of cashews
- 1/3 cup of nutritional yeast
- 2–4 tbsp of pickled jalapenos + a little of the juice
- 1 cup of vegetable broth or water or plant milk
- 1/2 lemon, juice
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- salt, pepper
Instructions
- Drain black beans, and dice onion and bell pepper. Warm olive oil (or 2 tablespoons of water) in a skillet over medium heat and add onion, bell pepper, beans and a pinch of salt. Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring often.
- In a blender, combine the rest of the ingredients with half of the cooked bean mixture. Blend until completely smooth.
- Transfer mixture to a pot with the other half of the bean mixture, mix well and cook on medium-low heat until warmed through. Pour it into a bowl to serve. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: Dip
- Cuisine: Vegan
That Gif!! Haha! The best dipping action 😉
Hahaha, left hand on the tortilla, right on the shutter button 😉
VEGAN queso??! Sounds too good to be true!! And it looks perfect! What a fun recipe! Being dairy free… I love that I can eat this! Looks perfect <3
Thanks, Cailee 🙂
I think your boyfriend hit the lotto when he met you! 🙂
Thanks for sharing my queso recipe. I can’t wait to try yours, it looks delicious and it has lots of protein.
You are too nice, Linda 🙂
The sauce really looks great, I’d love to try it! You are lucky with your boyfriend, we have some friends, a couple, he’s a vegan and she likes her meat every day. This kind of situation would make me crazy!
Thanks, Adina!
It’s also very hard for me to imagine such a situation right now. However I grew up being the only vegetarian in my family, I didn’t even know any vegetarians or vegans until I was about 20, so it used to be perfectly normal for me to have meat lovers around me all the time 🙂
This vegan quesco looks stunning, Evi. And love that beautiful GIF too! 🙂
Thanks, Anu 🙂
This looks so delicious! And I love the gif. Yum yum. 🙂
Thanks, Kristen!
ahhh i just found your blog and i’m obsessed! definitely going to be checking out ALL your recipes.
also love the GIF of the queso sauce haha. i watched it a good 10x before reading the rest of the post.
Thank you so much, Beverley! 🙂
I just searched the entire Pinterest for a quest cheese for something, I am making tonight for dinner, and ended up giving up – only to log onto bloglovin and discovering this! Note to self: always check bloglovin and Evi’s blog before cooking 😉 This recipe sounds so delicious and easy. Pinned for next time!
And oh, that story about your boyfriend is amazing. You truly won the lottery!
Yes I did! 😀
How was your dinner? What cheese recipe you made?
Wow I never thought I would ever be able to have queso again! These look absolutely delicious! Love the power of nutritional yeast hahaha.
Thanks, Linda 🙂
It works!!! Yay! So glad I could help. And I LOVE the little action pic at the beginning of this yummy recipe!
Thanks so much again for your help, Sophia 🙂
Ok he totally lucked out with you! Look how healthy he started eating! This queso sauce look fantastic! YUM! <3
Thanks, Rakhee 😉
Mmmmm! I love cashew based cheese sauces and with the addition of the beans, this one is a great source of protein and looks extra delicious! Love the gif too!
Thanks, Melissa 🙂
Evi, how did I almost miss this post?? That woulda just been sad. 1. I’m IN LOVE with your queso dipping GIF. Wow. It is just AMAZING. I have to pin this immediately on Pinterest. 2. I loved hearing about your boyfriend. Goodness knows we all kinda of go through an evolution in our eating habits with our partners. Erik and I went through the same thing… except we were both eating the stuff your BF did. LOL. Don’t judge us! But that’s the beautiful thing about growing with your partner, you know? You get to change not only in your careers or emotionally, but also in your habits with food and everything else. 🙂 Great post Evi. Can’t wait to see more of your AMAZING GIFs and learn more about you. <3
Hahaha, lovely! I also ate a lot of weird stuff, I changed a lot too (though compare to my boyfriend I still ate healthy :D). Actually I used to hate cooking too, it was the worst nightmare for me….then I don’t know what happened, now I love it!
You said it so well, growing with your partner. In so many things. Love it! ♥︎