Cheesy Vegan Noodles (with recipe for Vegan Cheese)
Tired or lazy or got not much time, and you’d want to have a simple yet tasty vegan meal? This cheesy vegan noodles is another meal you can quickly whip up if you have vegan cheese at home.
You can choose to buy vegan cheese or you can make it at home. There are many different varieties of vegan cheese. And there are many brands, too these days in the market. I prefer homemade vegan cheese simply because I’d like to avoid preservatives as much as I can. In this post, first, let me share the recipe for homemade garlic-flavoured vegan cheese.
Vegan cheese (garlic) recipe:
Ingredients required:
Sesame seeds — 1/3 of a cup
Garlic cloves — 1/3 of a cup, peeled
Potato — 1 small
water
Steps to Make (garlic) vegan cheese:
Step 1: Soak the sesame seeds in water for at least 1 hour.
Step 2: In the meanwhile, boil the potato and peel the garlic cloves.
Step 3: Add the peeled garlic cloves to the sesame seeds and let them remain soaked.
Step 4: Peel the boiled potato, squash it gently, or cut it into smaller pieces.
Step 5: Add the mashed potato to the mix as well. Let them soak in water for a while. (The longer they remain soaked, the smoother the cheese would be.)
Step 6: Filter out the water; you don’t need the water anymore. You can save this water for cooking the noodles. Transfer the content to a mixer and run the mixer.
Step 7: Refrigerate it overnight. Your vegan cheese is ready! From the next day, you can use this for a few days on the many different cheesy vegan foods you’d like to cook. 😊
One of the foods you can use this vegan cheese on would be cheesy vegan noodles, for which the recipe is as given below.
Cheesy Vegan Noodles:
Ingredients Needed: (serves 1 person)
You can use vegetables of your choice, whichever ones you like. I’ve used the following.
Onion — 1, small
Broccoli — 1/3 cup of broccoli florets
Baby corn — 3–4 kernels
(optional) Black Chickpeas — 1/4 cup, soaked the previous night and boiled
Salt — 1 teaspoon
Pepper — 1 teaspoon
Vegan cheese — 2 tablespoons
Vegan Noodles — 1 cake or the amount needed for 1 bowl *
Mix of Herbs — 1/3 of a cup
Cooking oil — 1.5 tablespoons
Water
Optional:
Chia seeds — 1 tablespoon
(I have used Maggi noodles.)
Steps to Make Cheesy Vegan Noodles:
Step 1: Chop the onion and the other vegetables into small pieces.
Step 2: Add the cooking oil to the pan and add the vegetables. Stir well and let them cook for 5 minutes on medium fire.
Step 3: In the meanwhile, add water to the noodles and let it cook for a few minutes on medium fire.
Step 4: Add the herbs, salt, pepper, and the other optional ingredients including chickpeas to the vegetable mix on the pan, and continue cooking for a few more minutes.
Step 5: Add vegan cheese to the mix of vegetables just before serving and mix well.
Step 6: Add the cooked noodles to the cooked vegetables, and sprinkle small amounts of other spices or herbs you’d want to add.
You can adjust the salt and spice content accordingly. Note that the vegan cheese by itself does not contain any cheese, so if you’d want, you can add more salt to your noodles.
This is just as easy as making a sandwich is. Since I prefer to not fully cook the vegetables (to save the nutrition content), it takes not much time to cook this. You can make this for breakfast, as you’d have the cheese ready and you’d also have soaked the chickpeas the previous night.
See, how easy this is to cook? For lazy people like me, it’s these easy-to-cook and tasty foods that make life fun!
Several tens of thousands of people try shifting to a vegan lifestyle in the month of January every year. Would you like to try going vegan, too? It’s a great day to start being kind to non-human animals and the planet, too. Give it a go!
If you have questions, you can contact anyone vegan online. There are so many animal rights activists and groups willing to help those who are new to veganism.
