Vegan Parmesan Cheese Recipe: Magical ‘Fairy Dust’

Sprinkle this magical Fairy Dust – a flavorful, homemade vegan Parmesan cheese recipe – on everything! It’s a delight on pizza, pasta, veggies, salads, potatoes, and more.

Vegan Parmesan Cheese “Fairy Dust”

This “Fairy Dust” is a basic vegan Parmesan cheese recipe with a few bonus additions to make it great.

SPEAKING OF MAKING IT GREAT.

Y’all, my kid is obsessed with this one Pizza Hut training video from the 80s. My husband is a nostalgia blogger, so he spends time each week looking up old commercials and other vintage videos. For some reason, this one really resonated with my kid:

In case you don’t have time to watch, I’ll sum up: The training video walks you through how to make a Pizza Hut pizza, including sprinkling on “Fairy Dust.”

Obviously, the next time we made pizza at home, my kid wanted to sprinkle Fairy Dust on top. This beefed-up vegan Parmesan sprinkle is our vegan version of Fairy Dust, and we are obsessed with it.

How to Make Fairy Dust & How to Store It

What’s great about this recipe is that it’s really flexible. You can use any nuts and seeds that you like to make the base, so you can make it nut-free, if you need. We usually use pecans, like in the written recipe, but I’ve also made Fairy Dust with:

• cashews
• almonds
• sunflower seeds
• walnuts

The other great thing about this recipe is that it takes about three minutes to make in the blender. Just toss all of the ingredients into the blender, then pulse until you have a crumbly mix.

Your Fairy Dust will keep for a few weeks in your pantry in an airtight container. I like to store it in a half-pint wide-mouth mason jar with this cool shaker lid on top.

You can use a regular jar, but this way, my family doesn’t stick their gross fingers into the jar to grab a pinch of Fairy Dust 18 times a day.

Where to Use Fairy Dust

Use this simple vegan parm anywhere you’d sprinkle or grate dairy parmesan cheese. I love it….

• sprinkled onto my Macaroni and Cheese before baking.
• on pasta, like my Red Pepper Pesto Fettuccini.
• on a baked potato.
• over veggies, like roasted broccoli or sauteed kale.
• as a topping for Baked Ziti.
• on salads.

Any time you want to add a bit if texture and a burst of flavor to a savory dish, that jar of Fairy Dust is your friend. We try to always keep some in the pantry.

I tend to double or triple the recipe below, because I’m truly obsessed!

Ready to make some fairy dust? Let’s get down to the nitty gritty. Let’s get this show on the road!

Vegan Parmesan Cheese Fairy Dust

Sprinkle this magical Fairy Dust – a spin on homemade vegan Parmesan cheese – on everything! It’s a delight on pizza, pasta, veggies, salads, potatoes, and more.

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Course: Condiment

Cuisine: Vegan

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 61kcal

Author: Becky Striepe

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup nuts or seeds of your choice – (pecans, cashews, sunflower seeds, walnuts, almonds, etc.
• 1/2 cup nutritional yeast
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt

Instructions

• Put all of the ingredients into your blender, and pulse until you have a crumbly mix.
  
• Store in an airtight container. Will keep for up to 3 weeks, but I bet you’ll use it all before that.

Nutrition

Calories: 61kcal

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