Creamy Cashew Mac with Crunchy Topping
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.
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
Cover the cashews with boiling water and let them soak until soft.
⏱ 10 minBring 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.
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.
Toast the panko with the olive oil in a dry skillet over medium until golden. Season with a pinch of salt.
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.
Serve topped with the toasted panko.
Recipe by @kai.spooned · original post