When becoming vegan, one is always afraid of missing to eat cheese in all kind of forms: in sandwiches, roasted, as a spread, dipping sauces, … However, and to my surprise as well, there are substitutes that work perfectly well and I would say that they are even better than the real cheeses.
Recently I have made several different recipes that required cheese however following some recipes and reading in different blogs, I made an awesome “cheese” banana cake, a “cheese” dipping sauce and what it is posted here a “cheese” for crackers. All the recipes are soy free and if you want to be a bit more inventive and create alternatives for cheese without soy products, I really recommend you this book: “The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook“. There are a lot of different recipes with cheese alternatives and the author gives you the alternative to cook with soy or be soy free. A heads-up with respect to the key ingredients, you will have to fill up your cupboards with nutritional yeast, white kidney beans, cashew nuts and agar agar.
The uncheese from the photo resembles “Colby cheese” and really believe me it is awesome! For those of you with more curiosity and wonder who is the guy of the sack, he is a traditional character in the Netherlands that helps to distribute the presents to the children with Sinterklaas. His name is Zwarte Piet.
Ooh, I love the Colby recipe from The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook! Yours looks beautiful!