Easy Dairy-Free, Soy-Free Alfredo Sauce
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I don’t generally make 20-minute meals. I tend to opt for dishes that have me working in the kitchen for an hour plus. But today’s recipe—a dairy-free, soy-free Alfredo sauce—made for one quick lunch yesterday. I put asparagus in the oven to roast, and I put a covered, large pot of salted water on to boil for gluten-free pasta. While I waited on the water to boil, I washed spinach, peeled an orange, sliced an avocado, and made a mustard-citrus dressing for the salad. When the water was boiling hard, I put the pasta in and stirred it around. I flipped the roasting asparagus and then put the ingredients for the pasta sauce in the food processor. When the pasta was cooked, I scooped out the pasta water I wanted for my sauce, I set the food processor running, and I drained and rinsed the pasta. I tossed the pasta with the sauce, pulled the asparagus out of the oven, put tongs in the salad, and voila! Lunch in less than half an hour.
Oh, and this easy sauce was tasty enough that my non-gluten-free, non-allergic friend who was over for lunch got seconds.
Easy Dairy-Free, Soy-Free Alfredo Sauce
Serves 6-8.
Ingredients
6-8 servings of dried gf pasta
salted water for boiling
1 cup cashews, soaked at least 2 hours (I left mine on the counter in water overnight)
1/4 cup grated onion
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon chickpea miso
1 clove garlic, peeled
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
3/4 to 1 cup hot pasta water
Directions
Put pasta in salted water that has come to a hard boil. Meanwhile, combine in the food processor or strong blender (e.g., Vitamix) all of the ingredients except the pasta water. Pulse to finely chop the ingredients, scraping down the sides of the processor with a spatula as necessary.
When the pasta has reached al dente, scoop out 1 cup of hot pasta water. Drain and rinse the pasta. Add 3/4 cup of the hot pasta water to the food processor, and process the sauce for several minutes, until nearly entirely smooth. Taste, and adjust seasonings or add additional water as desired. Reheat gently if sauce is no longer warm. Toss with pasta, and serve immediately.
Inspiring recipes:
Super Quick Tomato Basil Cream Pasta
Raw Food Alfredo Sauce
Cashew Garlic Alfredo Sauce
This sounds really good! And I do love that it is a ‘quick’ recipe.
Suggestion for recipe: enchiladas?
P.S. Thanks for the sorghum subbing suggestions.
Sally, I can’t really think of a time that people *haven’t* wanted seconds at your house.
I can tell I’d want seconds, too! Sounds fabulous. Can you think of anything even vaguely similar as a sub for the nutritional yeast? For now, I’m still not allowed it. . .
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Shirley–Adding enchiladas to my list. Any particular kind of enchiladas?
Nik–Thanks. You’re always very supportive, and I appreciate it.
Ricki–To make it without nooch, I would cut the water down (maybe to 1/2 cup?) and try a tablespoon of tahini added to it. I bet it will still work.
Hi Sally! This is a great project! Thanks for posting a 20 minute meal! I’ve been drooling over your other recipes but don’t have the time to cook more involved meals. Also, love that this is dairy free. I’ve never bought chickpea miso. Is this something I’d be able to find at a “regular” grocery store?
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Hey, Linh. You can find chickpea miso at some health foods stores, Whole Foods, and online. But if there isn’t any where you are, I would increase the salt by 1/2 teaspoon and add 2 teaspoons tahini and maybe 1 teaspoon brown mustard.
I miss being the guinea pig for your recipes. Sigh.
I am so excited about this blog. I’m hoping it will become the impetus for Caleb to want to try to go GF for 2 months. (I’ve told him I’d support him in doing that, but I won’t force him, because he has to want to…so we haven’t yet).
Chicken enchiladas…or veggie.
Made the Alfredo sauce tonight and enjoyed it
I blogged about the experience if you’re interested in the down and dirty details.
http://1year4seasonsgfcf.blogspot.com/2010/03/alfredo-sauce.html
Thanks!
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Hi, this sound fabulous. I’m new to your both your blogs (I love ithem!! very inspiring) and have been starting to question more and more how food affects me and my family. So it was great to stumble upon your blogs. I have already cut out lactose and for the moment all processed foods (i’m on day 7!). Because I live in Australia and I’m noew to these kinds of foods I will probably be asking lots of questions about ingredients. So… what is nutritional yeast and chickpea miso?
Keep up the hard work.
How is this soy free if it has chickpea miso?
Because chickpea miso has no soy in it. “Miso” is the fermentation, not the ingredient.