An easy vegan alfredo sauce recipe with no cashews, instead creating a creamy and garlicky alfredo sauce using white beans instead of nuts.
Author: The Edgy Veg
Recipe type: Sauce
Cuisine: Vegan
Serves: 2
Ingredients
1 cup green peas
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
½ small cooking onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced garlic
½ - 19oz can of white beans, drained
¼ cup unsweetened soy milk, as needed
½ tsp white miso
juice of 1 lemon
1 tbsp nutritional yeast
sea salt, to taste
black pepper, to taste
Instructions
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, and cook pasta as instructed on the box or bag. Add peas to the pasta water, during the last minute of cooking. Reserve the pasta water.
Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a medium-sized deep skillet over medium-high heat.
Add onions, garlic, and a pinch of salt and cook until translucent, about 3 mins, stirring constantly.
Stir in beans, and cook until heated, about 3 mins.
Transfer everything to a blender along with soy milk, miso, lemon juice, and nutritional yeast. Blend until smooth and creamy. Add more soy milk if required to get a thick but pourable sauce. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
Transfer the sauce back into the skillet, and add pasta, peas, and a bit of the pasta water.
Cook stirring constantly, until the sauce clings to the pasta, and everything is evenly coated, adding more starchy water as required.
Recipe by The Edgy Veg at https://www.theedgyveg.com/2023/09/05/vegan-alfredo-sauce-no-cashews/