Fav vegan comfort meal (wickedly easy)
Whole wheat pasta + Broccoli + Nooch Sauce
Roast or otherwise cook the broccoli, boil the pasta, smother in sauce, eat and be happy.
How I make my nooch sauce (aka the easiest vegan cheeze sauce ever):
Heat a little oil in a small saucepan on low/medium heat
Add some flour of choice and whisk it up together for a minute so it starts to cook (don’t burn it!)
Add spices: onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper, dash of turmeric for color, and a touch of dijon mustard (I never seem to have onion powder and it works out fine without it, but the mustard is important to the flavor profile)
Add a good splash of non-dairy milk and whisk it up. It should be looking like a sauce...
Add a generous amount of nooch (aka: nutritional yeast)
Add more non-dairy milk until it’s how you want it. Make sure to turn off the stove! Pour over food, dip food into it, eat it with a spoon, whatever.
Note that this thickens fast if the heat’s on under it. I often make it perfect consistency, put my pasta nad veggies on my plate, and come back 3 seconds later to find the sauce is now way too thick. No big deal, just whisk in another splash of milk until it’s good to go. I also don’t measure anything, so I can’t provide measurements. If it helps, this is just a bechamel sauce (aka white sauce) with some extra stuff added to make it cheezy-like.
