This Macadamia Nut Vegan Cheese recipe is a lactose-free cheese made with macadamia nuts, nutritional yeast, and other delicious flavors. The best part? It’s Ready in 5-minutes!

When Mauna Loa approached me to collaborate with them and their delicious macadamia nuts, I immediately knew what I was going to make!

I’m not vegan, but I’d been hearing about this cashew dip from Trader Joes’s all over Instagram. It made me really curious so I decided I wanted to make my own savory nut dip.

Most vegan cheeses are made from cashews. (I’m not sure why, but I love me some cashews so maybe it’s just a taste preference?)

The problem with using cashews for vegan cheese is that they have to soak before you can blend them up. Macadamia nuts are already a very soft nut, so they require no soaking which means you can go straight to whipping up this delicious 5-minute vegan cheese!

I might be a little bias, but I’m pretty sure this is the best vegan cheese recipe ever!

Okay so maybe I don’t have much to compare it to, but I did have a piece of delicious vegan ricotta cheese on a butternut squash pizza from True Food Kitchen that was absolutely incredible! However, I would still consider this macadamia nut cheese to be the best macadamia nut vegan cheese out there 😉

PLUS, it’s ready in 5 minutes!

This macadamia nut cheese is insanely flavorful and the perfect thickness for dipping, spreading or eating straight from the spoon. Which I may or may not have done all while I was making it.

This easy vegan cheese recipe gets its cheesy flavor from nutritional yeast.

You can read all about the benefits of nutritional yeast if you’ve never used it before, but if you follow this blog, I’m sure you’ve seen it used plenty of times before!

Buttery
Cheesy
Garlic-y
Delicious

Just a few of the words I would use to describe this macadamia nut vegan cheese recipe.

I chose to pair my nut cheese with roasted carrots, homemade sweet potato chips, cucumbers, pretzels, pita chips and whatever veggies I had in the fridge. (AKA not that many because as you all know, I like to save my money and buy frozen vegetables!

I also added this vegan cheese to a turkey sandwich (not very vegan of me) and it was amazing!

Ever had avocado toast with eggs? Then you would LOVE macadamia nut cheese toast with eggs.

For this Macadamia Nut Vegan Cheese you will need:

• Macadamia Nuts
• Nutritional Yeast
• Lemon
• Garlic Salt

Seriously, the opportunities are endless with this stuff. But watch out, because it’s insanely addictive.

Do you have a recipe for your favorite vegan cheese!? I wanna know!

This recipe was adapted from Minimalist Baker’s Recipe.

x, elizabeth

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Cuisine

american

Servings

People

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 Cup Raw Macadamia Nuts
• 2 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
• 1/2 Tsp Garlic Salt
• 1/4 Cup Water *add more as needed
• 1-2 Tbsp Lemon Juice
• Crushed Red Pepper Flakes *Optional! As desired

Cuisine american Servings People Ingredients 1 1/4 Cup Raw Macadamia Nuts 2 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast 1/2 Tsp Garlic Salt 1/4 Cup Water *add more as needed 1-2 Tbsp Lemon Juice Crushed Red Pepper Flakes *Optional! As desired

Instructions

1. Add all of your ingredients and 1/2 the water (saving the other half for later) to a food processor and blend on high.
2. Scrape down sides as needed, then slowly add more water until a thick paste forms.
3. Taste and adjust flavor as needed. Option to add crushed red pepper flakes during this step.
4. Blend again to get your desired texture. Top with crushed red pepper flakes for more heat and a little garnish!

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