INSTANT POT CHEEZ SAUCE - Weight Watchers 2pts

Описание: INSTANT POT CHEEZ SAUCE - Weight Watchers 2pts

Gathering your ingredients before cooking will save you so much time. The culinary term for preparing your ingredients is “mise en place”. It sounds fancy and means “putting in place”. Take your recipe, pull all of your ingredients from your cupboards/refrigerator, and measure them out. Assembling the recipe will be a breeze.

This is a sauce that I’ve made over and over. And I know some of you have also made it. It’s #glutenfree #cholesterolfree #vegan #dairyfree and #wholefoodplantbased with #noaddedoil.

It’s a great recipe. It makes enough that you can freeze it and just reblend it on thawing. We like it on pasta, #instantpot “baked” potatoes, veggies and as a dip. You can spice it anyway you like after it’s made. It does contain optional #nuts.

Cheez Sauce - Instant Pot

Cook Time: 20 min Servings: Servings: 11 Source: Littleblueplates.com

2 cups water
1/2 yellow or white onion, peeled and quartered
2 cloves garlic, peeled
1 cup carrots, peeled and sliced
1 1/2 cups peeled and chopped Yukon Gold potatoes
1/2 cup raw cashews (optional, but recommended for maximum creaminess.)
1/2 cup nutritional yeast (Different from baking yeast)
2 Tablespoons mellow white miso
1 teaspoon smoked or sweet paprika
1 1/2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1 1/2 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons sea salt (optional, but recommended to achieve a true cheese-like taste.

Place all ingredients in the Instant Pot. (No need to soak the cashews- the Instant Pot will soften them.)

Put the lid on the Instant Pot and twist it to the lock position. (Listen for the tone indicating it’s locked.) Select MANUAL with HIGH pressure, then set the cook time to 5 MINUTES. (After 10 seconds, the Instant Pot will beep to let you know it has started.)

When the Instant Pot has finished cooking, manually release the pressure and open the lid.

Using hot pads and avoiding the steam, lift the stainless steel pot out of the cooker. Carefully pour the entire contents of the pot into a high speed blender. Puree in batches if your blender isn’t large enough. Use the highest speed setting for about 2 minutes, until sauce is super smooth, thick and creamy. (If sauce is too thick, add 1/4** to 1/2 cup plant milk and blend again to thin. Sauce will continue to thicken as it cools, so you may want to make it a little thinner to start.) Alternately, you can use a hand-held immersion blender directly in the Instant Pot to blend all ingredients together for 2-3 minutes, or until cheese sauce is super smooth, thinning with a little additional plant milk as needed.

Serve hot cheese sauce immediately by pouring over cooked macaroni, steamed broccoli, baked potatoes, or stir in spices and serve over baked corn tortilla chips as nachos.

If not serving right away, allow cheese sauce to cool completely and then store covered in the refrigerator for up to one week, or in the freezer for up to three months. (Sauce will thicken when chilled, so you may need to thin it down again before serving, by adding a bit of plant milk or water while re-heating) [*after cooling I added 1/4 cup oatmilk to thin)

When ready to serve the previously refrigerated or frozen sauce, heat in the microwave till super hot, stirring every 2-3 minutes. Continue heating and stirring until all the cold clumps have melted, and the sauce once again has a super smooth consistency.) Alternately, you can heat the thawed sauce in a saucepan on the stovetop, stirring constantly, until very hot and no lumps remain, and thinning with a bit of plant milk as needed (The heating process will thicken the sauce, so you may need to add even more plant milk to thin it out again before serving.)

On Satuday I’ll upload the video to YouTube and you can cut/paste the recipe there. Yield is 5-1/2 cups of cheez sauce. One-half cup serving is 2pts.

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-Nutritional yeast isdenatured/deactivated yeast
-Miso is a soybean paste
-Smoked pimentos is smoked paprika
-You can find these at most grocery stores, Amazon or Ethnic grocery stores.





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