I would do it for cauliflower cheese or a pouring sauce if I had the time, but probably wouldn't bother if I was using it in a punchy-flavoured lasagne orĭairy-free milk Make sure you use an unsweetened milk, sweet cheese sauce is not a good thing. Onion, clove and bay leaf The first step of this recipe, infusing the milk with these fragrant and savoury flavours, is entirely optional, and probably depends on both how much time you have available and how you will be using your cheese sauce. What you need to make your Vegan Cheese Sauce Ingredients Aside from being prosecco-poppingly brilliant in its own right, that also means it is worthwhile for all food producers and supermarkets to wake up and make dairy-free alternatives taste fantastic, and be readily available everywhere, which they now are. Any that were readily available had an overwhelming smell and taste of coconut mingled with stinky socks, and I was loath to even put them in my fridge let alone in my cooking.īut this is 2020 and veganism is a proper THING that the masses are paying attention to and joining in with. Before then, my pasta bakes and vegetable dishes were limited to tomatoe-y sauces or just a slather of vegan margarine.īack in those days, the range of vegan cheeses available in supermarkets was totally dismal - both in number and quality. I was experimenting with veganism for quite a long time, (embarrassingly long, now I think of it), before realising that you could in fact just make a deliciously creamy cheese sauce out of dairy-free ingredients. A rich and creamy vegan cheese sauce that no-one will guess is dairy-free! Perfect for a lasagne, pasta bake, cauliflower cheese or just to pour over your roast dinner.

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