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Our Best Dairy Free Mac & Cheese
Our dairy free mac & cheese recipe uses our old starchy friend the potato as a thickener, which results in the secret to this sauce. It’s equally delicious made with your favorite gluten free pasta and breadcrumbs. Add this recipe to your file of vegetarian recipes, including our Vegan Cashew Cheese Sauce & Vegan Chipotle Cream Sauce to spice up your favorite Buddha Bowl. Our Macaroni Salad is another great dairy free recipe.
Ingredients For Creamy Dairy Free Mac & Cheese
Fresh: russet potatoes, lemon
Seasoning: nutritional yeast, garlic powder, onion powder, kosher salt, turmeric, paprika
Pantry Ingredients: elbow pasta, chicken or veggie stock, panko bread crumbs
Vegan Dairy: vegan cheese shreds, vegan butter
How To Make Dairy Free Mac & Cheese
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Boil the potatoes in a large pot of salted water.
Drain the potatoes and transfer to a blender.
Make the pasta in a second large pot of salted water.
Drain the pasta and transfer to a 9 x 13-inch baking dish.
Make the cheese sauce by adding the seasoning, lemon juice, vegan butter to the blender. Blend until smooth.
Pour cheese sauce over the pasta and stir until combined.
Make the panko breadcrumbs in a small bowl. Sprinkle the breadcrumbs over the top of the pasta and bake for approximately 20 minutes.
How To Store Leftovers + Tips
Leftovers will keep for 3-4 days in the fridge. If you plan to freeze this recipe, we recommend working through step four, and stopping before you bake the mac & cheese. At this point, let the pasta cool before wrapping tightly and freezing for up to 3 months.
Gluten free version: This recipe is easy to turn into a gluten and dairy mac & cheese, because it doesn’t use a flour-based base to thicken the cheese sauce. Just use your favorite gluten free pasta and breadcrumbs.
If you have regular bread crumbs on hand, you can use them in place of panko bread crumbs. We call for panko in this recipe, because we prefer their light and airy structure, but any breadcrumbs will work.
Make sure to season the water for your potatoes and pasta as this will have an important impact on how well the end dish is seasoned. Under-seasoned mac & cheese is no good!
Plenty more mac and cheese recipes from The Modern Proper: Mushroom Mac and Cheese, Instant Pot Mac and Cheese, Classic Baked Macaroni and Cheese, 4-Ingredient Stovetop Macaroni and Cheese
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