Thermomix Vegan Cheese Sauce

Thermomix Vegan Cheese Sauce

Serves: 3 cups

 

Ingredients:

  • ⅓ cup Lotus Savoury Yeast Flakes (or a touch more if you like the flavour)
  • 2 large white potatoes (peeled and diced into chunks)
  • 1 large carrot (peeled and diced into chunks)
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • ½ white onion
  • ⅓ cup of water
  • ¼ cup of olive oil + extra tablespoon for sautéing
  • Pinch of paprika (if desired)
  • 5 tsp salt
  • Pepper to taste
  • 1 Tbsp lemon juice

 

Method:

  1. Prepare Thermomix bowl with enough water for steaming (usually 2 cups)
  2. Place potato and carrot chunks into the Thermomix steamer and steam on Varoma setting for 15 minutes or until tender. Set aside and dry out the Thermomix bowl.
  3. Blitz the garlic glove by dropping into Thermomix bowl while running at Speed 8. Add onion and blitz further for a few seconds. Scrape down.
  4. Add one tablespoon of olive oil to the bowl and sauté garlic and onion with 100C, Speed 1 for 5 minutes. Onion should be transparent
  5. Add potato, carrot, water, olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika, yeast flake and lemon juice in bowl. Blitz content for 30 seconds on Speed 10 until mixture is super smooth
  6. Taste the sauce. If it lacks a ‘bite’, try adding another squeeze of lemon or ½ teaspoon of salt
  7. Use sauce immediately or store in fridge for up to a week

 

Source: Thermomix