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:
- Prepare Thermomix bowl with enough water for steaming (usually 2 cups)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Taste the sauce. If it lacks a ‘bite’, try adding another squeeze of lemon or ½ teaspoon of salt
- Use sauce immediately or store in fridge for up to a week
Source: Thermomix