Vegan Cashew Queso

This creamy, smokey, and slightly spicy vegan cashew queso is a great dairy free addition to any savory meal where you would normally use a queso!

Vegan cashew queso - how cool is it that we live in a time where we can play around with food enough to make a dairy free queso out of cashews that tastes - phenomenal. This is by far a fan favorite of mine, people love the richness and flavor of this queso.

This queso uses my vegan parmesan cashew cheese as its base and its super easy to make. Simply add water and canned chipotle peppers to my vegan parm, and stir! It's smoky, salty, and oh-so queso-y!

This stuff goes really well on a lot of things, including my:

• Quinoa Meat Tacos
• Black Bean Tacos
• Vegan Breakfast Egg Cups
• Vegan Tofu Scramble Breakfast Tacos

Please Note: Depending on what diced chipotle peppers you get (usually you can find these in a jar/tin next to other Mexican food ingredients), you may want to taste the mixture prior to starting this recipe. In my experience, a lot of canned chipotle peppers can be pretty salty, so you may want to skip the salt when blending, and add salt to taste after so you don't end up with a super salty product. If you are not into spicy foods, go easy on the canned peppers and add them bit by bit.

Cashew Queso

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• Author: Emily Marrs
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Total Time: 5 minutes
• Yield: 15 tablespoons 1x

Ingredients

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• 1 cup cashews (I use raw)
• 2.5 tbsp diced chipotle peppers (*)
• 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
• 10 tbsp hot water
• 1 ½ tsp garlic powder
• ½ tsp onion powder
• ¼ tsp smoked paprika
• ¼ tsp chili powder
• ½ tsp kosher salt (to taste)

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients to a high speed blender and blend about 10-15 seconds until smooth.
2. Lasts in fridge at least two weeks. Goes great on... everything!

Notes

*Depending on what diced chipotle peppers you get (usually you can find these in a jar/tin next to other Mexican food ingredients), you may want to taste the mixture prior to starting this recipe. In my experience, a lot of canned chipotle peppers can be pretty salty, so you may want to skip the salt when blending, and add salt to taste after so you don't end up with a super salty product.