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Home » Simple Vegan Recipes » 10-Minute Easy Vegan Cheese Sauce

10-Minute Easy Vegan Cheese Sauce

by Becky Striepe

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jar of vegan cheese sauce on a table next to The Veginner's Cookbook

Easy Vegan Cheese sauce is soy free, nut free, and decadently delicious. Drizzle it over chips for instant nachos or use anywhere you want a little dairy-free cheesy goodness.

Serving vegan cheese sauce with sauce dripping off of the spoon.

Vegan Cheese Sauce Recipe Notes

The method for making this sauce is basically the same as a bechamel. Don’t let the word “bechamel” send you into a panic, though! It sounds fancy, but it’s super easy to make one.

In fact, my four-year-old helps me make the vegan bechamel we use as a base for our homemade mac and cheese. If he can do it, so can you!

This recipe is actually a lot quicker and easier than a bechamel. You only have to whisk for a minute or so after you add ingredients, so it’s a snap to make. Here’s how this super easy sauce comes together (and check out the video for a visual).

  1. Melt a bit of coconut oil, then cook with flour and spices.
  2. Add nutritional yeast.
  3. Add water, and stir, stir, stir.
Jar of vegan cheese sauce with Veginner's Cookbook and bowl of cheesy broccoli in the background. Serving spoon on the table next to it.
If you love nutritional yeast, you are going to love this creamy, noochy Simple Vegan Cheese Sauce!

That’s it! If you can pour and stir, you can do this.

How to Use Your Vegan Cheese Sauce

Use this sauce anywhere you want to add a cheesy punch.

  • Drizzle it over a grain bowl.
  • Pour it over chips for instant nachos.
  • Use it as a vegan queso dip.
  • Spoon it on in place of the sriracha mayo in your avocado tacos.

The Veginner’s Cookbook Review

Y’all, I am so excited to share this easy recipe for Vegan Cheese Sauce from my friend, Bianca Haun’s cookbook: The Veginner’s Cookbook. You may know Bianca from her website, Elephantastic Vegan.

The book is a helpful guide for anyone who wants to give veganism a spin. The first section walks you through everything you need to know about going vegan:

  • kitchen tools and ingredients
  • basic grain cooking
  • vegan substitutes for non-vegan ingredients
  • how to talk to skeptics (or get them to leave you alone)

From there, Bianca and her partner, Sascha Naderer, arm you with recipes for everything from kitchen staples and entrees to baked goods and desserts.

Jar of easy vegan cheese sauce with cheesy broccoli and Veginner's Cookbook in the background.

I chose their Basic Vegan Cheese Sauce to showcase, because it’s so versatile. For a new vegan, I think having some go-to staples like this sauce can be a real gamechanger. I hear so often that cooking vegan food is time consuming, and having go-tos like this speed things up considerably.

The other thing I love about this Basic Vegan Cheese Sauce is that it’s nut free. We have a few friends with peanut and tree nut allergies, and now we have a cheesy sauce that we can share with them!

Jar of vegan cheese sauce with Veginner's Cookbook and bowl of cheesy broccoli in the background. Serving spoon on the table next to it.

Easy Vegan Cheese Sauce

Easy vegan cheese sauce is soy free, nut free, and decadently delicious. Drizzle it over chips for instant nachos or use anywhere you want a little dairy-free cheesy goodness.
5 from 7 votes
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Course: Sauces and Dressings
Cuisine: Vegan
Keyword: easy vegan cheese sauce, simple vegan cheese sauce, vegan cheese sauce
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 3
Calories: 165kcal
Author: Bianca Haun & Sascha Naderer

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil
  • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon paprika powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon curry powder
  • 1/3 cup nutritional yeast
  • 1/2 cup water

Instructions

  • Heat the coconut oil in a small pot on low heat.
  • Once the oil is a complete liquid, add in the flour and whisk.
  • Add the salt, paprika powder, and curry powder and whisk again.
  • Then, add the nutritional yeast and whisk again. It should be clumpy – that’s normal, don’t worry.
  • Add the water and whisk on the lowest heat setting for about 1 minute until the sauce thickens nicely. If it gets too thick (or if you want to reheat at a later time) you can add a little bit more water and whisk again and it should be good as new.
  • Use it as a dip, pour it over some lasagna or pizza or whatever you like, and enjoy!

Notes

Recipe from The Veginner’s Cookbook, Copyright 2018 by Bianca Haun and Sascha Naderer, reprinted here with permission.

Nutrition

Calories: 165kcal
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About Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe (rhymes with “sleepy”) is a vegan food writer and cookbook author. She been vegan since 2006 and developing simple vegan recipes since 2008.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Jernika

    November 02, 2019 at 9:32 pm

    Soooo good and easy af to make. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      November 04, 2019 at 7:26 am

      Thank you, Jernika! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply
  2. Ashley

    April 11, 2019 at 1:25 pm

    This actually looks a ton like normal nacho sauce, so intriguing! The curry powder sounds unsettling, but there’s so many positive comments about it, I just have to give it a shot. Has anyone tried it with any gluten-free flours? Do you know if I would need to make any adjustments?

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      April 12, 2019 at 8:49 am

      I hear ya – I wasn’t sure about the curry at first either, but it’s delightful. I haven’t tried with gluten-free flour, but Serious Eats says that you can make a roux with rice flour, so that might work!

      Reply
  3. Jaime woodruff

    January 14, 2019 at 5:54 pm

    So good!! At first I didn’t think the curry was going to work, but I was wrong!! Best vegan cheese sauce recipe I have ever tried!!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      January 15, 2019 at 9:33 am

      I went through that exact experience! Curry in cheese sauce seemed odd, but it is shockingly good!

      Reply
  4. jenna

    March 15, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    This stuff is so good! I admit I had doubts… I was expecting it to just be gravy, but it is seriously cheesy! The curry powder really kicks it off! Loving it!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      March 15, 2018 at 6:01 pm

      Yes I was so intrigued by the curry powder and am so glad I chose this recipe to share. It’s a delight!

      Reply
  5. Bianca / Elephantastic Vegan

    March 15, 2018 at 11:57 am

    Thank you so much for the amazing review, Becky!
    I’m so glad you enjoyed the vegan cheese sauce! It’s really good on pizza and lasagna too 🙂

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      March 15, 2018 at 12:36 pm

      You are so welcome!

      Reply
  6. Katie

    March 13, 2018 at 8:03 pm

    This was very easy to make and was great on tacos. Thank you for posting! Very very good!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      March 13, 2018 at 8:09 pm

      Awesome! Glad that you enjoyed it.

      Reply
  7. Sarah

    February 27, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    I need to check out this book. And that cheese sauce looks incredible!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      February 27, 2018 at 6:27 pm

      You’ll love it!

      Reply
  8. Sarah De la Cruz

    February 27, 2018 at 1:11 am

    Love a simple queso sauce!!!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      February 27, 2018 at 6:42 am

      Me too!

      Reply
  9. Amy Katz from Veggies Save The Day

    February 27, 2018 at 12:36 am

    This is such a fun cookbook! I’ll definitely need to try this sauce!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      February 27, 2018 at 6:42 am

      You will love it!

      Reply
  10. Dianne

    February 26, 2018 at 11:53 am

    I love this book! I haven’t made this recipe yet, but now I want to. I want to drizzle this cheesy sauce all over everything!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      February 26, 2018 at 1:35 pm

      When it’s cold, it’s even spreadable! I used it on toast.

      Reply
  11. Mary Ellen | VNutrition

    February 26, 2018 at 8:45 am

    I love trying all new cheesy sauces! This one looks gooood! Totally going to check out The Veginner’s Cookbook!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      February 26, 2018 at 8:52 am

      It’s a great book!

      Reply

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