2009/11/27

Creamy Soy Cheese

Creamy Vegan Soy Cheese Tutorial

For the vegan soy cheese you will need a good blender. I prefer a Vita-Mix (who doesn’t), but any good blender will do.

Add 2 cups of soy milk

soy milk in the ready

Next, get your ducks in a row: soy cheese ingredients

What we have:

3/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
1 tablespoon granulated garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
1 teaspoon vinegar
1/4 of a lemon
To take the cheese to another taste dimension & you like a little spice in your life like me, add 1 jalapeno

Add these ingredients into the blender with 1/2 tsp of sea salt:

Almost there!

Now, the fun part…pour 1 cup of vegetable oil in a separate cup and keep at the ready. As you blend the milk and ingredients together, you will slowly pour the oil in. Watch, as I demonstrate…

Start blending milk and ingredients. Start on a low speed and increase to high. Note: For this demonstration, the lid is off the blender. I do not recommend this for you…I’d hate to see all this yummy cheese on your cabinets and your finest kitchen outfit! Most blenders have a two part lid. Start with your complete lid on and then remove the center piece before you add the oil.

You will pour oil through this center opening

I started my blending with the lid on and took off for this demonstration.

Now that the milk, nutritional yeast and others are all happily liquefied, let’s add the 1 cup of vegetable oil. Begin pouring the oil SLOWLY in the center funnel.

Let the oil begin