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Creamy Cashew Mac with Crunchy Topping

Serves 4 · 35 min · 13 ingredients

A silky sauce of blended cashews, nutritional yeast and lemon coats elbow macaroni, finished with browned garlic breadcrumbs. Orange, glossy and very hard to leave alone.

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Shared by @kai.spooned

Ingredients

  • 1 cupraw cashews
  • 12 ozelbow macaroni
  • ¾ cupoat milk, unsweetened
  • ⅓ cupnutritional yeast
  • 2 tbsplemon juice
  • 1 tspgarlic powder
  • 1 tsponion powder
  • 1 tspDijon mustard
  • ½ tspsmoked paprika
  • 1 tbspwhite miso
  • ½ cuppanko breadcrumbs
  • 1 tbspolive oil
  • salt

Method

  1. Cover the cashews with boiling water and let them soak until soft.

    ⏱ 10 min
  2. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the macaroni until just tender. Save 1 cup of the pasta water, then drain.

  3. Drain the cashews and blend them with the oat milk, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, garlic powder, onion powder, mustard, paprika, miso and 1 tsp salt until completely smooth.

  4. Toast the panko with the olive oil in a dry skillet over medium until golden. Season with a pinch of salt.

  5. Pour the sauce over the hot macaroni in the pot and stir over low heat until it thickens and coats every noodle. Loosen with pasta water a splash at a time.

  6. Serve topped with the toasted panko.

Recipe by @kai.spooned · original post

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