Easy Vegan Parmesan Cheese with Garlic & Herbs

The most delicious and easy vegan parmesan cheese flavoured with garlic and herbs. You'll be sprinkling this on everything!

This stuff is seriously addictive. I'm on my second batch.

I could have just made a plain vegan parmesan cheese, but I wanted to boost the flavour, so I played about and created a delicious vegan parmesan with garlic and herbs.

It's lush!

Sprinkling it on everything right now!

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• ⭐ Reader's comment
• 💭 Is there such a thing as vegan parmesan?
• 🧀 What you need to make dairy-free parmesan
• 🥜 Plain or salted cashews?
• 💭 What is nooch?
• 📖 Variations
• 🥣 Simple vegan parmesan
• 🍕 How to serve this vegan substitute for parmesan cheese
• 🥫 Storing cashew parmesan
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• 🧀 Vegan Parmesan Cheese FAQ
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⭐ Reader's comment

💭 Is there such a thing as vegan parmesan?

Officially no, there can't be a vegan parmesan.

Parmesan cheese is covered by PDO which stands for Protected Designation of Origin.

A cheese can only be called Parmesan if it is made from milk taken from the cows that graze in Parma in Modena in Italy.

Vegan parmesan is often known vegan hard cheese or vegan pasta cheese.

For the purpose of explaining the style and flavour profile, I'm using the name vegan parmesan, so you can know the flavours to expect.

Of course, I've taken those basic flavours and run with them.

🧀 What you need to make dairy-free parmesan

Here are the simple ingredients you need to make this gorgeous parmesan alternative.

• Cashews
• Nooch
• Garlic Powder
• Dried Oregano
• Dried Parsley
• Salt & pepper

🥜 Plain or salted cashews?

You can use plain or salted cashews to make this cashew parmesan.

However, if you use salted cashews make sure you don't add any extra salt as there will be enough salt on the nuts to season the cashew parm.

📋 Can you use different nuts to make vegan parmesan?

I've not tried this with different nuts yet.

Cashew nuts are perfect as they have a creamy texture that works well to impersonate dairy cheese.

If I was trying this recipe for vegan parmesan with another type of nut I would probably try either almonds or peanuts first.

💭 What is nooch?

If you've not been a vegan for long or are just trying out a few dishes, you may not know the fabulous thing that is nooch!

Nooch is an affectionate nickname for Nutritional Yeast.

Nutritional yeast is a deactivated yeast that is sold in flake form in tubs.

It has that umami cheesy flavour, which is why so many vegans add it to dishes.

⭐ What is Nooch's superpower?

Nooch is full of vitamins and minerals.

It actually has all 9 amino acids making it a complete protein and it also includes Vitamin B12, which is really important but can be hard to include in a vegan diet.

📖 Variations

This plant-based parmesan, has already been tweaked with the addition of garlic and herbs, but here are a few more ideas to change it up.

• Herbs - change the dried herbs, try dried basil instead of parsley
• Spice it up - why not add some chilli flavours to add some heat
• For a smoky flavour - add some paprika

🥣 Simple vegan parmesan

For a plainer vegan parm. you could leave out the herbs, but I would still recommend adding the garlic as it gives it a wonderful round flavour.

Do try it my way first, you won't be disappointed!

🍕 How to serve this vegan substitute for parmesan cheese

Here are a few serving ideas.

We've been sprinkling this parmesan on everything.

Sprinkle vegan parmesan over ....

• Pasta - a must
• Pizza - for extra flavour, try it on these bagel pizzas or these pizza twists
• Cheese on toast - so, so good
• Cheesy Noodles - sprinkle some on these quick cheese & onion noodles
• toastie fillings - add a pop of flavour
• Salad - works well
• Stuffed mushrooms - the perfect topping
• Stuffed peppers - tasty on these too
• Pan con tomate - Spanish tomato tapas (like a Spanish Bruschetta)
• Soup - just a sprinkle
• Potato wedges - the perfect coating

🥫 Storing cashew parmesan

The ingredients in this vegan cashew parmesan are all dried ingredients so they have a long shelf life.

This parmesan will keep quite happily in a jar for a few weeks

Try this easy homemade pizza seasoning next.

🧀 Vegan Parmesan Cheese FAQ

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👩🏻‍🍳 How to make easy vegan parmesan cheese with garlic & herbs

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Step 1

• In a food processor or blender jug add cashew nuts and nutritional yeast.
• Then add the garlic powder and the dried oregano.

Step 2

• Now add the dried parsley, salt and pepper.
• Blend to a fairly fine texture.
• Don't keep blending or you will end up with savoury nut butter!
• Spoon into a completely clean and dry, airtight jar.
• Start sprinkling over everything!
• Enjoy!