Rich Cheddar Sauce

Carmella · #1 04-26-2007, 01:07 PM

This is hands down my favorite cheese! Delicious in sandwiches, pizza, lasagna and served over zucchini pasta. Or try it on marinated broccoli and dehydrate the casserole at 110 for a few hours.

Rich Cheddar Sauce
Adapted from "Rejuvenate Your Life" by Serene Allison

1/2 large red bell pepper
¼ c water
1 c raw cashews, sunflower seeds, and/or almonds (I use a mixture of these and soak them overnite)
1 T tahini
2 T nutritional yeast
1 ½ teaspoon sea salt
2 teaspoons onion powder (or a small slice of onion or 1 tbs or so of green onions)
1 clove garlic
2 T lemon juice

Blend until creamy. Add more water if it is too thick.

Simply the best nut cheese ever!

SchoolOfRAWk · #2 05-21-2007, 04:30 PM

I love the cheddar cheeze spread!

Fairygirl · #3 06-10-2007, 07:21 PM

yesterday i made a white macadamia nut cheese to go on pizza....and now thanks to this recipe and leftovers, ill change it to cheddar cheez! yummy!

Fairygirl · #4 06-20-2007, 10:26 PM

so i made my white cheese into the cheddar, mixed with marinated chopped mushrooms, and made eggplant ravioli with it (added some pesto too). Boy, where they ever yummy!
Topped with a balsamic sundried tomato sauce. Mmm! have a pic to post soon, but doesnt look near as good as it tasted.

thanks for posting the recipe carmi....and i will be making this cheese again tomorrow for the base of pizza crusts that are int he dehydrator right now

Carmella · #5 06-21-2007, 09:52 AM

Glad you enjoyed it too. So yum, eh?

OK, you gotta tell me how you make raviolis out of eggplants!!! Do you marinate them first?

Coonlie · #6 06-21-2007, 07:06 PM

Yes, do tell us, please!

I tried Alissa's turnip ravioli but the turnips never got completely soft and I didn't care for crunchy ravioli.

SchoolOfRAWk · #7 06-22-2007, 02:24 PM

I want to see, too!
I was thinking eggplant could work as a ravioli, totally...

Carmella · #8 06-22-2007, 02:50 PM

Coonlie,
I've made the turnip raviolis lots of time and mine aren't crunchy... Could it be that your turnip slices aren't quite thin enough?

I do mine on my spiral slicer as the mandoline won't give me the proper thickness. What are you using?

Fairygirl · #9 06-23-2007, 04:42 PM

I made this for my pizza 2 nights ago - divine! its really good as a creamy salad dressing too!

Coonlie · #10 06-24-2007, 05:51 PM

I was using my mandolin, Carmella. Maybe that was the problem - my slices need to be thinner? My husband didn't mind them but I really didn't care for the crunch.

Carmella · #11 06-24-2007, 07:53 PM

Ahhhhh! That's probably it! They need to be super thin. I find that it also helps in terms of the taste as turnip is rather strong.

Danny_banany · #12 06-26-2007, 09:48 PM

Teehehehe, I just gave this to my hubby with some organic corn chips and he said "my taste buds are completely fooled!"
In other words, taste's just like chedder cheese dip/sauce!
I used half a orange pepper and the color was very cheesy looking, he asked for more

Thanks Carmella for posting another winner!

*my husband has a HUGE cheese addiction, so this is really something!*

Audry · #13 06-27-2007, 11:45 AM

A friend of mine sent me this raw eggplant ravioli tutorial link:

http://www.postpunkkitchen.com/forum...c.php?id=27002

Its very nice.

Carmella · #14 06-27-2007, 12:14 PM

Hi Audry!

So nice to see you come out of lurking mode! Yay!

Well we sure are on the same wave lenght! Someone brought that tutorial to my attention yesterday and I was totally stoked about it! Isn't it just awesome?

Man, I love step-by-step, visual tutorials! I can have such a hard time visualising how certain things need to be done!

Tracy · #15 07-31-2007, 03:15 PM

This is probably my absolutely favorite raw recipe. So much so, that I only make it once in awhile because I make an absolute pig of myself when I make it.