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Vegan Mac and Cheese

Creamy cashew-and-carrot sauce makes this mac genuinely cheesy.

Prep
15 min
Cook
20 min
Total
35 min
Active
20 min
Serves
4
Difficulty
Easy
Cuisine
american
Servings4

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Boil the potato and carrot in water for 12 minutes until fork-tender, then drain, keeping a little cooking water.

  2. Meanwhile, cook the macaroni in salted water until tender and drain.

  3. Blend the potato, carrot, cashews, plant milk, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, garlic powder, and salt until smooth and creamy.

  4. Thin the sauce with a splash of the reserved cooking water if needed.

  5. Toss the sauce with the hot macaroni and serve right away.