RECIPE: Vegan cheese - cashew based mozzarella or halloumi style - melts, stretches, pan fries well and it's 100% plant based, gluten free and so delicious!

Vegan cheese recipe! Make a protein filled, yummy fully plant based stretchy cheese in 15 minutes!

This is a super simple, easy, quick and interesting recipe to make. It can also be made with a firmer texture just by adding some corn starch.

Apologies for the 'not so great' photos - Full recipe below - enjoy xx

Air fryer 'pizza bread' - Stretchy mozzarella style, no corn starch on this one.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• 1/3 of a cup of raw cashews - pre soaked overnight (or soak you can them for 5 to 10 min in boiling water)

• 1 and 1/3 cups of filtered water (not the same water you used for soaking cashews)

• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (or 2 tbsp of lime juice)

• 1/2 tsp of salt

• 1 tbsp of nutritional yeast (optional)

• 4 tbsp full of tapioca flour

• 1 tbsp of corn starch (optional, for a halloumi style with firmer texture)

HOW TO MAKE IT:

Drain the cashews.

Blend all the ingredients really well.

Pour into a dry sauce pan (non stick is even better) and cook at medium heat. Keep on stirring it.

It will start to become clumpy.. then, it will become quite gooey and thick - like a big mass of stretchy 'cheese'. No more liquid - that's when it's ready!

Turn off the heat and pour it into glass container.

Let it cool down before storing it in the fridge.

If you are making pizza, toasties etc, - its ready to use!

If you want a firmer 'halloumi' type - just let it set in the fridge for a few hours before you use it. Once cold, cut some slices and pan fry them in Vutter :)

You can add onion, garlic powder, herbs, chili, cumin seeds, black pepper... whatever you wish to make it even more interesting and delicious!

It should last for 5 to 10 days in the fridge

You can watch a reels here  to see what the 'halloumi style' cheese looks like. It's firmer and great for pan frying.

Enjoy

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Cahsew based Halloumi style cheese pan fried with Vutter, on toast topped with onion weed :)

Stretchy mozzarella style, pan fried in Vutter for a crispy texture, on toast and topped with extra nutritional yeast :)