Healthy Cheese-Like Sauce

Healthy Cheese-Like Sauce

Ingredients

• 2 3/4 cups water - divided
• 1/3 cup raw cashews
• 1/3 cup sliced raw carrots (3/8 cup shredded carrots)
• 2 1/2 teaspoons granulated onion
• 1/4 teaspoon granulated garlic
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
• 1/2 tablespoon ground tumeric 
• 1 tablespoon tahini
• 1/4 cup olive oil or coconut oil
• 3 tablespoons tapioca starch or corn starch

Instructions

1. Place 1 cup water and next 9 ingredients (cashews through tahini) in blender and blend until very, very smooth. (A high-powered blender works best for this.)
2. Add oil and blend well.
3. Add tapioca starch or corn starch. Blend until well mixed.
4. Pour into medium/large sauce pan. Rinse blender with remaining 1 3/4 cups water and add to sauce pan.  
5. Bring to boil over medium/high heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is thick and bubbly.
6. Remove from heat.
7. Serve warm or chilled.

The original recipe for this can be found here http://jenniferskitchen.com/2014/04/healthy-cheese-sauce.html . I made a few changes to suit my tastes.  I added the nutritional yeast for a more cheesy flavor, cut back on the salt (because the nutritional yeast is salty) and added the tumeric for color.  I am going to try this the next time without the oil, I am not sure it needs it.