Gluten Free Vegan Living

I love White Sauce — do you like Gluten Free Vegan White Sauce?  There are so many things you can do with it …

• Use it as a base for veggie casserole
• Add mushrooms and make a wonderful gravy
• Add basil and make another wonderful gravy
• Add leftover vegan “meat” balls/patties and serve over Gluten Free biscuits
• Make a cream soup with it
• Serve over Gluten Free noodles

The list is endless.  Gluten Free Vegan White/Cream Sauce is truly a comfort food …. as you will read in the article.

Quick Creamy Sauce for Anything

Easy. Gluten-free. Vegan. Free of all allergens. Versatile. And really darn good.

1 1/4 cups nondairy milk (I used flax milk, but would use any unsweetened, thicker nondairy milk)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
2 tablespoons almond meal* (optional, I believe… see below)
1 tablespoon coconut flour

Whisk together the milk, nutritional yeast, onion and garlic powders, salt and pepper. Here I added the almond meal, but when I added it to the pan with the veggies, it didn’t thicken enough, so then I stirred in the coconut flour. It was perfect thickness, which I think was with no help from the almond meal. I reckon you can just use the coconut flour and omit the almond flour, unless you wanted to include it for a bit of taste and nutrients.

READ FULL RECIPE … and story!

There are lots of different vegan milks you can use in this recipe.  Try any of the ones listed below:

This multi-step Vegan Pasta with Special ‘Cream’ Sauce sounds almost too good to be true.  Contains gluten free pasta, broccoli with dorito style bread crumb topping.  If you love and miss the taste of Doritos, this may be the ticket for you.  The same great taste without all the chemicals!  And the crumb recipe can be used on other dishes!

No store bought Doritos were used in this recipe. Just some spices and flavors together and voila! And why did I make this? Well, the big food corps, apart from putting in humongous amounts of money into creating shelf stable products with weird amounts of chemicals, they Also put the money into finding tastes and combinations that tickle your tastebuds, make you addicted to things and keep you coming back to the product!

Penne and Broccoli in Doritos cream sauce, topped with Doritos spiced bread crumbs. Vegan

Ingredients:

1.5-2 cups cooked Whole grain Penne or any pasto of choice

1.5 cups broccoli florets(blanched)

For the cream sauce:

1/3+ cup raw cashews, soaked for at least half an hour

1/3 cup water

1+ teaspoon lemon juice

1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste

few teaspoons evoo

Doritos Spice Mix:

1-1.5 Tablespoon nutritional Yeast

2 teaspoons dried onion flakes or 1 teaspoon onion powder

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 to 1 teaspoon cayenne

1+ teaspoons paprika(to taste/color)

a generous pinch of salt

a generous pinch Rock salt(optional)

You can add Daiya cheddar, yellow mustard powder, lemon zest, red chili/black pepper for the cheddar/ranch/ spicy etc variations.