Easy recipe for a vegan Mozzarella Cheese made out of cashews. You’ll only need 7 ingredients! This Cashew Mozzarella is perfect for pizza, quesadillas, or grilled cheese sandwiches!
Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with vegan cheeses and this vegan Cashew Mozzarella cheese was one of my favorites! It’s quick and easy to make (if you have the cashews already soaked). Did you know that you can store cashews soaking in water in the fridge for months? It’s really useful if you plan on making vegan cheeses but you don’t know when exactly.
For this Cashew Mozzarella Cheese, you’ll only need 7 ingredients:
- cashews
- tapioca starch (makes it stretchy!)
- garlic clove
- nutritional yeast (makes it cheesy)
- salt
- lemon juice
- and water
Uses for the Cashew Mozzarella …
- pizza (I like to make a minimalistic Margherita pizza with only tomato sauce, cashew mozzarella, and fresh basil (after baking), but feel free to add more toppings if you like!)
- lasagne (this cashew mozzarella makes a creamy top layer!)
- grilled cheese sandwiches (you can also make your own sandwich bread!)
- quesadillas (spread it onto 2 tortillas, add the fillings, fold the cheesy sides together, heat in a pan until crispy – yumm!)
- mozzarella sticks (cut the mozzarella in sticks, coat in breadcrumbs, and fry)
- caprese salad (sliced mozzarella, sliced tomatoes, and basil)
As you can see, I’ve made a delicious Margherita Pizza with the cashew mozzarella. It was absolutely divine! I also sprinkled crushed pepper onto the mozzarella before baking.
Cashew Mozzarella
Ingredients
- 1 cup cashews (raw, unsalted, soaked see step 1)
- 4 teaspoons tapioca starch
- 2 small garlic clove
- 4 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- Soak the cashews in water overnight. The next day, rinse and drain the cashews.
- Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until completely smooth. You might have to scrape down the sides a few times.
- Transfer half of the cheese mixture into a saucepan and bring to medium heat. Keep stirring until it gets stretchy and comes together in a ball. Repeat for the other half. Then transfer the cheese balls into a container, let them cool off, close the lid and let it chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
- You can slice it and use it on pizza, in quesadillas, in grilled cheese sandwiches or however you would use regular mozzarella!
Notes
Estimated Nutrition Info
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The nutritional facts on the mozzarella cash you what is the amount serving size for the calories?
The estimated nutritional facts are for the whole cashew mozzarella ball. :)
Thanks for this recipe. Does it melt/shred?
I haven’t tried shredding it because it’s quite soft, but you can slice it. It does melt only slightly.
Why do you only do the “cooking” part of this on half of the mixture at a time? Can you do it all at once?
Yep, you can make one giant mozzarella ball as well! I just wanted to make two smaller ones :)
Can you elaborate on what you mean by stretchy. I made this, the color is not like yours, it’s yellow. It did form a ball but never became what I would consider to be stretchy.