
Add one cup each of non-dairy milk and veggie broth and whisk until well-combined. Add 3 cloves of garlic and a pinch of red pepper flakes and sauté for 1 minute until fragrant. Here’s how I make my White Bean Alfredo Cheese Sauce: In a saucepan, heat a bit of olive oil over medium-high heat Saute minced red onion until softened, about 5 minutes. By adding nooch to this Great Northern Bean Dip, you can have a thick, creamy cheese sauce that tastes great. Simply blend cannellini or Northern beans with nutritional yeast, seeds or nut-free, soy-free vegan cheese. You can also use white beans to make a cheese sauce. Try making your own potato-and-carrot cheese sauce as in this Healthy Mac n’ Cheese, Life-Changing Cheese Sauce, and Extra-Creamy Mac and Cheese. Add in your cheesy flavors and you have a cheese sauce that tastes like the real thing. Just boil or steam the potatoes and carrots and purée them. This combo is one of the most popular healthy vegan cheese sauce choices around. You don’t need to use turmeric for color when you make cheese sauce out of carrots mixed with potatoes. Butternut squash is also used to make this Smoky Butternut Squash Mac n’ Cheese and Super Creamy Mac n’ Cheese. These Autumn Nachos with Pumpkin Queso Dip have a cheese sauce made with butternut squash, miso, cashews and nutritional yeast. Butternut squash is not only the perfect slightly sweet taste for making cheese sauce but it’s already the right color. Pumpkin purée is used to make the cheese sauce in this Mac ‘N Squash as well as this Cheesy Seasonal Pumpkin Mac. Alternatively, you could use canned pumpkin or squash purée – just be sure to buy the plain purée that has no seasoning since you’ll add your own cheesy flavors. Again, just cook the pumpkin by boiling or steaming, and purée it until it’s smooth. SquashĪll types of squash, including pumpkin, can be used to make cheese sauce. Try this Spaghetti Squash With Basil and Creamy Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce and this Cauliflower Alfredo for your next Italian night at home. Creamy Alfredo-type cheesy sauces can be even healthier when made with cauliflower.

When you want comfort food without the guilt, these Cauliflower Cheese-Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are just the thing. This Hot n’ Bubbly Cauliflower Cheese is super-creamy with a combination of cauliflower and cashews. This Super Creamy Mac and Cheese (No Nuts, No Soy, No Problem!) has a cheese sauce made with cauliflower and butternut squash along with hemp seeds and rice milk.

Then add in the ingredients that will give it a cheesy flavor such as nutritional yeast, garlic, cayenne, miso, Dijon mustard, and/or lemon juice. To make cauliflower cheese sauce, all you have to do is cook the cauliflower, either by steaming or boiling, and then purée it until it’s smooth. Try These Recipes! to learn all the different ways to use this vegetable. By now, we all know that cauliflower is a magical vegetable that can be turned into rice, purées, and even pizza crust.
