4-minute Cheeze Sauce Mix: Your new plant-based pantry staple

This vegan cheese sauce mix is the ultimate plant-based pantry staple. It consists of 4 simple, all-natural ingredients: almond flour, tapioca starch, nutritional yeast, and salt. Store it in your pantry and when you want some cheese sauce, you just add water, blend for one minute, and then cook for about 3 minutes. That’s it! Unlike so many of the other vegan cheeze sauce recipes out there, this requires no soaking of nuts, or boiling of vegetables, or any other major preparation time.

Making 4-Minute Cheeze Sauce Mix

This is a very basic recipe, as it I wanted it to be versatile enough to work with lots of foods and different flavours.

The recipe is beyond simple. You literally just need to grab a big bowl, measure the ingredients into it and give it a good stir.

Now just transfer it to a resealable container and it’s ready when you are.

I store my 4-minute cheeze sauce mix in my pantry. It will keep well for at least a month if not longer. If you don’t think you will use it that frequently, you can store it in the fridge or even the freezer.

Making Cheeze Sauce From the Mix

Once you have your cheese sauce mix made it’s super simple to make the sauce. You combine the mix with water in a blender, and blend for a minute. Then you transfer it to a saucepan and heat and stir for a few minutes. The sauce will go through a stage where it looks a bit like it’s curdling. Don’t panic, this won’t last. Just keep stirring and it will be fine.

Using 4-Minute Cheeze Sauce Mix

You can enjoy this plant-based cheese sauce exactly as is, say, drizzled over veggies. Think asparagus, steamed broccoli, roasted cauliflower, pan-fried green beans, oven-roasted potatoes, grilled tomatoes, roasted peppers, zucchini.

Or, try one of my growing list of recipes that uses it, like Easy Cheezy Broccoli Soup. It’s literally just cheese sauce blended with steamed broccoli! How simple is that? Also check out the recipes for Quicky Spinach Basil Pasta,  Corn Chip Casserole: Two Ways,  Cheezy Roasted Cauliflower with Smoked Almonds and Dates, hot chili grilled cheeze, this awesome dairy-free spinach dip, and Stovetop Green Bean Casserole. And there’s many more to come!

Eating Together Made Easy

If you’ve been to not not nutritious before, you may have noticed my tagline: Eating Together Made Easy.” By “eating together,” I’m talking about vegans/plant-based peeps, vegetarians, and omnivores, and I try to make recipes so that no matter what your diet, you can follow my easy variations and therefore still eat meals together. And save plan and prep time in the process!

So for example, Quicky Spinach Basil Pasta starts out with a recipe based on 4-minute cheeze sauce and then gets topped with parmesan for the vegetarians, and some quick-fried prosciutto for the carnivores.

With Corn Chip Casserole: Two Ways, you can make a version with jackfruit if you’re vegan or plant-based, or a version with chicken if you’re not. They both use 4 minute cheeze sauce, but the omnivore version also includes some dairy-based cheese. Yes, this means you are eating both vegan cheeze sauce and dairy cheese together. It’s good! I promise.

Let’s Get this Cheeze-y Pantry Staple Made!

PIN It! Vegan 4 Minute Cheese Sauce Mix – Your new pantry staple!

Recipes That Use 4 Minute Cheeze Sauce

• Quicky Spinach Basil Pasta
• Corn Chip Casserole: Two Ways
• Cheezy Roasted Cauliflower with Smoked Almonds and Dates
• Hot Chili Hot Chili Grilled Cheeze,
• dairy-free Spinach Dip
• Vegan Broccoli Cheese Soup
• Stovetop Green Bean Casserole

And many more to come! And speaking of that….

Send Me Your Recipe Requests!

I’d love to know what you’d like to make with 4 minute cheese sauce. Post a pic of your creation on Instagram, #notnotnutritious or drop me a comment below or on the not not Facebook page.
And let me know if I can help you use this sauce to simplify making your favourite cheeze/cheese based recipe.