This recipe for a fast and easy vegan parmesan cheese replacement uses almonds, garlic, and nutritional yeast.

In three minutes you can make a flavourful and tasty dairy free cheese substitute – a recommended staple in any milk and lactose free kitchen. This recipe calls for almonds as the nuts because they are hard and don’t turn into a butter very easily.

My favourite nutritional yeast is one that doesn’t have a lot of extra B12 added. Too much B12 can give it a vitamin/supplement taste and I find I have trouble sleeping – I wake up in the night – if I eat nutritional yeast with really high levels of B12.

Vegan Parmesan Cheese Substitute

Makes 1/4 cup.

Use this cheesy, and satisfying, dairy free, vegan, substitute - instead of parmesan cheese.

Shake it on anything that would benefit from a rich cheesy flavour, and a boost of health.

It is a key ingredient in my super fast Vegan Pizza Crust.

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Prep Time 3

Total Time 3

Course Seasoning

Cuisine American, French, Italian

Servings teaspoons

Calories 25 kcal

Instructions and Ingredients

2 tbsp (30 mL) almonds
2 tbsp (30 mL) nutritional yeast US
nutritional yeast Canada
1 tsp (5 mL) garlic powder
1 tsp (5 mL) soy sauce or salt

Optional Substitutions

Place the nuts, nutritional yeast, and soy sauce in a small high-speed blender.
I use a magic bullet or this one in Canada
Blend until the nuts are finely ground.
I still blend this if I use almond flour, I find it distributes the soy sauce better and makes it less clumpy, but with almond flour, you can also just stir it with a fork instead of blending.

Notes

Sub Cashews for Almonds for a different flavour. Sub Hemp Seeds for Almonds to make nut free. Tamari coated almonds work really well - skip the soy sauce if you use these.

Store in a shaker jar and keep on your dinner table for sprinkling on meals.

Vegan Parmesan Cheese goes great with any italian dishes - like Lasagna, Pasta Primavera, and Spaghetti.

I've made a batch and used it for the next couple weeks, not sure how long it can last. Depends on the nuts I would guess.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Vegan Parmesan Cheese Substitute

Amount Per Serving

Calories 25 Calories from Fat 9

% Daily Value*

Fat 1g2%

Sodium 23mg1%

Potassium 71mg2%

Carbohydrates 1g0%

Protein 1g2%

Calcium 7mg1%

Iron 0.3mg2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Vegan Parmesan Cheese