This incredible mac & cheese recipe is one that I included in my new ebook called nothing but noods! It contains 5 epic recipes for pasta and noodles and you’re going to want to get your hands on it. The ONLY way you can is by purchasing The Plant Based Bundle—available for a limited time only until November 28, 2022.
To get you drooling over the 200+ recipes contained in The Plant Based Bundle I'm giving you this recipe for my vegan smoked gouda mac and cheese for FREE! Watch a step-by-step demo of the recipe in the video below.
If you haven't heard of The Plant Based Bundle before, it's the hottest deal you’ve ever seen and can help those who are veg-curious, mostly plant-based already, or are wanting to start 2023 with a fresh vegan start! It contains over 200 vegan recipe ebooks, programs, and guides to help you on your vegan journey. In fact, I have included 3 hot for food ebooks in the bundle! In addition to nothing but noods, you'll also get even more vegan comfort classics as well as hot for holidays. That's a total of 25 epic vegan recipes just from me!
But there's even more! Do you want comprehensive meal plans? Fitness motivation and routines? Raw vegan recipes, juicing ideas, and vegan comfort food eats? Well, this is your chance to get this bundle while it’s available for only 10 days. It’s $50 (USD) but worth over $8500 (USD) in material! That's a 99% discount just for you!
Let's get into this mac and cheese, shall we? You know I'm a self-proclaimed mac and cheese connoisseur, right? So trust me when I say, this smoked gouda mac and cheese is ridiculously good! It uses a store-bought vegan smoked cheese product, which I wholeheartedly approve of. I particularly like the Good Planet Foods smoked gouda or cheddar block. You can use slices too and Violife makes smoked provolone slices. The name of the cheese really doesn't matter when we're dealing with vegan cheeses. As long as this cheese is smokey! It all gets blended together with some raw cashews and other seasonings as well.
Guess what? There's also a super crunchy, salty potato chip crumb topping. And yes, I have made this using flavored potato chips too like bbq and salt & vinegar! I highly recommend you give that a try.
Ingredients
potato chip topping
- 2 C salted kettle chips
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- ¼ teaspoon chili powder
smoked gouda mac and cheese (makes 2¼ cups of sauce)
- 2 C elbow macaroni
- ½ C raw cashews (soaked for 20 minutes in hot water)
- 1 C nondairy milk
- 200 g vegan smoked gouda, cut into cubes (1 block or stack of slices)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- To make the potato chip topping, crush the potato chips in a large bowl with the bottom of a measuring cup or use a mortar and pestle. The crumbs should be fairly small and crushed, but don’t need to be uniform. Stir the crushed chips with the garlic salt and chili powder and set aside.
- To make the smoked gouda sauce, rinse and drain the cashews from the soaking water and add to a high-powered blender with nondairy milk, vegan smoked gouda, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, garlic powder, onion powder and ground pepper. Blend on high until very very smooth.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil to cook the elbow macaroni. Once at a rolling boil generously salt the water and cook pasta for 6 to 7 minutes just before the al dente stage. If you want to add any greens to this dish you can add broccoli, peas, or other greens to the pasta water at the last minute to blanch them. Drain the pasta but do not rinse.
- Add the pasta back to the pot you cooked it in and combine it with all the sauce from the blender. Stir to combine well. Add this to a baking dish and top with an even layer of potato chip topping.
- Bake uncovered on the middle rack of the oven for 15 minutes. Then broil on high for 4 to 5 minutes to get a darker browning on the topping if you want. Watch closely so it doesn’t burn. Serve immediately.
Leave a Reply