Vegan Alfredo Sauce
Ginny McMeans
Published:
January 2, 2024
Last Modified:
June 24, 2024
Roasted Garlic Alfredo Sauce turns fabulous with a super easy and delicious sauce made from scratch. It can be made ahead of time too so that dinner can be served in about 15 minutes.
Doesn’t this look like perfect comfort food to you?
I picked this cashew Alfredo sauce because, first, it’s Alfredo Pasta and, second, because the sauce has lots of garlic added.
The sauce is so simple, and the garlic blends effortlessly into the creamy sauce.
I took some pictures of the sauce ingredients so you can see they are very accessible. Everything is included except the garlic. They are roasting at the moment.
You have a choice of using almond flour or ground almonds and leave it to me I did half and half. The ground almonds are underneath the almond meal. You can see it in the food processor in the next photo.
Ah! There are those beautifully roasted garlic cloves. It is two whole heads. You wrap the garlic in a foil packet and then roast until they are soft. The cloves pop right out of the peelings with just a pinch.
Vegan Garlic Sauce
Roasting garlic is very simple, and it is also very rewarding. If you ever get your hands on elephant garlic you’re going to have to give those a try for spreading on crostini toasts. You’ll be very happy.
So follow these directions in the recipe card below for roasting garlic, and you’ll also be on your way to an absolutely rewarding comfort food dinner.
Vegan alfredo sauce
Ingredients
- 2 cups non-dairy milk
- 3 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp Vegan butter
- 5 tbsp nutritional yeast
- Cooked pasta to serve with
Instructions
- Whisk non-dairy milk and cornstarch in a saucepot.
- Set over medium heat.
- Add salt, garlic powder, and Vegan butter. Simmer over medium heat until gently thickened, for 3 minutes.
- Stir in nutritional yeast.
- Cook stirring for 1 minute.
- Remove from the heat and serve over pasta.
Video
Notes
- Milk of choice – free to use any milk you want. I recommend using unsweetened varieties, such as almond or soy. Almon milk is universal and can be used in a variety of sweet and savory dishes. Soy milk provides a certain thickness to the sauce, but if you want it extra creamy use coconut milk.
- For garlic – for this recipe I used garlic powder, but if you want you can use roasted garlic. The roasted garlic will give more flavorful and complex notes. To make the roasted garlic, cut the top of the garlic and wrap it in aluminum foil with some olive oil. Roast the garlic for 40-60 minutes at 350F.
- For the cheese flavor – I went with simple nutritional yeast, but you can use Vegan parmesan.
- Top your favorite pasta with Alfredo sauce
- Stir into oven-baked spaghetti squash or zucchini
- Pour over steamed broccoli or cauliflower
- Use as a creamy base for different casseroles
