Vegan goat cheese
This is a vegan version of goat cheese. Also feels like requeson if you are Mexican!
Servings: 4
Calories: 180kcal
Equipment
- High speed bullet blender or food processor
Ingredients
- 4/5 cup Sunflower seeds
- 2 tbsp Lime juice
- 2 tbsp White vinegar Cider vinegar will also work, it'll make it a bit more "sweet", though!
- 1 tbsp White miso paste For a cultured flavor. Skip for Whole30
- 1/3 cup Water Or just enough to blend the seeds, you'll need much less if you use coconut oil and psyllium husk
To make it solid:
- 1.5 tablespoon Psyllium husks Optional, for a more gelatinous consistency
- 4/5 cup Refined coconut oil Optional, to make it solid to form blocks
Instructions
- Make sure you have all the ingredients
- Soak the sunflower seeds for about 6 hours or boil them for 20 minutes
- Melt the coconut oil
- Put all the ingredients but the psyllium husks and blend at high speed for 1 minute, then blend again until it is smooth (Note! you can blend first the seeds with the water and then add the rest of the ingredients if you want to use the creamy sunflower seed for other purposes and make less of this recipe)
- If you are making the solid version, you'll need much less water due to the coconut oil! make sure to add just enough to get your blender going, I use about 1/5 cup, but this depends on the blender!
- Add the psyllium husks and blend for another minute
- If you added psyllium husks and coconut oil, I recommend you to leave it in the fridge for about 30 minutes so it gets the proper consistency! put it into molds immediately after blending or it'll start to set!
- Also, if you want to make the classig log version, you can use parchment paper to give it form, and your hands with some drops of water to smooth the surface of the cheese :P
- If you added the psyllium husk and the coconut oil, you will get this result :)
- Enjoy
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Notes
- You can substitute the sunflower seeds with cashews, but, in my opinion, sunflower seeds have a more adequate flavor for this recipe
- I love adding some basil leaves to decorate the cheese! it also gives it a great flavor
- This goes great with crackers, spreading it on bread, adding it to soups, with sweet potato rounds!
- Soaking the sunflower seeds can work better if you don't. have a powerful blender, also, I find that my Ninja bullet blender works wonders to make it very smooth! if you have one, definitely use the bullet blender
- This is a very cheap, nut-free, dairy-free, agar agar free, probiotic free vegan goat cheese!
- If you don't add the psyllium husks or the coconut oil, this will feel like creamy goat cheese, if you add them it will be more solid and characteristic of "normal" goat cheese
- Calories area approximate, depends on how much water you need to get your blender going, if you actually use the coconut oil, it will certainly have more!