Gluten Free Vegan Cheese & Crackers
What could be better as a tasty any-time Nutritarian snack than Cheese and Crackers? Both of these recipes are whole food based and fully qualify as Vegan SOS (No animal products, salt, sugar, or oil), Vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free.
Ingredients
Onion Crackers
- 2 cups almond flour
- 3 Tbsp onion powder
- 3 Tbsp water
- 1 tsp Braggs liquid aminos
- 1 Tbsp poppy seeds
Vegan Cheese
- 5 tsp powdered agar agar
- 1 ½ cups water
- ½ cup cashews
- ⅓ cup nutritional yeast
- ½ cup red pepper chopped
- 4 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp onion powder
- ½ tsp mustard
Instructions
- Mix cracker ingredients together
- Spread onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper
- Lay another piece of parchment on top
- Roll with a rolling pin until it is an even thickness
- Bake at 350° for about 15 minutes
- Put agar agar and water into a small saucepan and bring to a boil
- Cook until thick like yogurt
- Add this mixture and remaining cheese ingredients to blender and blend until smooth
- Pour into a bread pan and place it in the fridge for 30 min.
Nutrition
Calories: 231kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 9gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 10mgPotassium: 157mgFiber: 5gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 292IUVitamin C: 16mgCalcium: 93mgIron: 2mg
I couldn’t find agar agar, only vege gel. Do you have approximate measurements for vege gel as an alternate please?
Sorry, I don’t have any experience with vege gel.
Can you list where you buy your ingredients please. This would help so your users patronize good suppliers/seller as there are many bad products online. Thanks
I buy my cashews from http://www.tierrafarm.com/
I buy Frontier nutritional yeast from https://www.iherb.com/
And I get almond meal from Tader Joes.
That is a great tip. Thank you,
Jill
Have you tried the cheese recipe as a topping on pizza or on other dishes as a topping?
I haven’t but I think it would work =)
I just made this. I have made several different vegan cheeses. This one does taste great when first made but it was bland with a nasty undertone after a few hours in a sealed glass container in the fridge. The bad flavor was unfamiliar. Am wondering if it might be the agar and if there is a substitute?
Jill,
We just discovered your cooking show. The crackers are spectacular. Would like to test the cheese next. Any replacement for bell peppers? We’re avoiding night shade. I can use turmeric for color, but have been disappointed in the past with the lack of flavor of vegan cheeses. Thank you so much for your peaceful, concise presentation. And congratulations on your successful health journey.
Hmmm a replacement for the red pepper. You could use a couple olives. That would give it a punch of flavor.
This is the most bland vegan cheez i have ever made. To fix the taste ad 1 tsp salt, pepper to taste a touch more dried mustard (get a box of Keens prepared from Amazon) and a tablespon of white miso paste ( I used chickpea not white) Also if your a canner and canned tomatoes this year save the skins you blanched off, put them in your dehydrator and when thoroughly dry grind into tomato powder. Add to your cheezes for both colour and deep flavour. For a less cheedery flavour add a wee bit less of what I have suggested and maybe skip the miso. Your choice. Now it tastes like real cheez.
I am getting ready to make it. I can’t find agar agar. Can I use cornstarch instead?
Alycia
Agar agar is what makes the cheese set up like a hard cheese. I don’t think cornstarch will do that. You will end up with something more like a cheese spread.
agar agar can be gotten from amazon
Hi Jill, I am not sure if you tried it. Can you use xanthan gum instead of Agar Agar for the cheese?
I haven’t tried using xanthan gum. If I understand correctly it is used as a binder like flax so I’m not sure if it will make the cheese set up like the agar agar does. I think it would just create a spreadable cheese.
Ok. Thank you Jill. 🙂
Made the cheese and added some smoked paprika, crushed red pepper and just a dash of sea salt and it came out great! Awesome on crackers
Hi! the red peppers you are using. do you use actual hot red peppers or red bell peppers? When I translate it, it can be either.
red bell peppers