Day 5: A (not-so) Cheesy Matter
Cheese is what I thought I’d miss most this lent. I don’t drink much milk, and I hardly ever buy any eggs, but I do like cheese. So I started looking around for alternatives straight away…
I did some research, and it turns out that vegan cheese is available in all kinds of colours and textures and even quite cheap – but quite a few people claimed the taste was rather unpleasant and simply ‘not the same’.
Then, however, I found out about nutritional yeast “cheese”. I read about it in all kinds of other blogs like here, here and here and they all reported tastiness, easy preparation and yummy cheesy texture and feel. I also like the idea of producing the stuff myself.
So, once again, went to Health Foods on Market Street and luckily found this:
The vegan margarine, on the left side, is also a valuable ingredient. I found it in Tesco after scanning all the other one’s ingedrient lists: Who knew even plant-based margarine had buttermilk or milk proteins in it? :S
So you will need:
- 2 tbs Vegan margarine
- 3 tbs Flour
- 50 ml Water
- 1 ts Mustard
- 1 ts Salt
- 4 tbs Nutritional yeast flakes
- 100 ml Water
Mix all the stuff together in a pan in the given order after melting margarine first.
Bring it to a quick boil and then you’re done.
Then, it will have the texture of a very thick cheese sauce, so you can do whatever you like with it. I chose to pour it over my potatoes and bake it in the oven for about 5 min.
Aaaand this is the end product:
Very happy with it. Incredibly tasty, the texture is very similar to that of cheese. As you can see in the picture, it melts nicely and even has a little brown crust on it. Yum.
Believe it or not but one day you’ll get over your beloved cheese (I never, never, never though I’d say this because before I started living vegan almost my whole diet was based on cheese
).
There’s also some decent fake-cheese’s you can buy in health food stores (at least in Germany – I don’t know about Scotland) or online. Some are better than others, of but for pizza etc. most of them work pretty well.
However, what I wanted to tell you above all: check out http://www.veganwiz.com/category/vegan-cheeses/ !! They have some great recipies for homemade cheese on the base of soy milk & soy joghurt.
Ok, so I shall try to believe you that I will be over cheese at some point.
The yeast stuff is definitely helping! How do you think it took you to get ‘over it’?
And thanks so much for the link – as I said, one thing I like about the Hefeschmelz is that I can produce it myself, so that sounds like a cool idea. Dankeschön
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