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These Nachos come together in 30 minutes. Make the nut-free Vegan Nacho cheese sauce in 10 mins, spice up beans, prepare the toppings, layer and serve. Vegan Nachos Recipe. Soy-free Nut-free Gluten-free Recipe
I had been meaning to make some Nachos with a sauce version of my Nut-Free Agar-free Nacho Cheese Slices and what better day than today. Today is National Nachos day  🙂
Make some Nachos. I made these around Lunch, quickly took some pictures with the winds howling away outside, and ate the whole bowl! Ok I lie. Ate a bit more than half of it. I eat small meals 🙂
These Nachos practically come together within 30 minutes, if you have pre-made salsa and guacamole on hand. Spice up some beans, make the cheese sauce. Warm up the Tortilla chips, layer and serve.Â
The Nacho cheese Sauce is very addictive. I make some to serve up with crackers, veggies or tortilla chips. Not keen on chickpea flour? Make my cashew based Nacho cheese sauce from this post. Bring the sauce to boil to thicken. Or this 10 Minute regular flour sauce.Â
There can never be enough Vegan Nachos!
More Nacho things from the blog.Â
Nut-Free Agar-free Nacho Cheese Slices
Cashew Millet Nacho Cheese Sauce
Nacho Mac and cheese Casserole.
Spice up the beans, make the Nacho cheese sauce, warm the nachos, gather salsa guacamole and other toppings. Ready to layer.
Layer it up and serve immediately.Â
Gimme!
Vegan Nachos with Nut-free Nacho Cheese
Ingredients Â
For the Black Beans
- 1 tsp organic canola , or safflower oil
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped tomato
- 1/2 tsp chipotle pepper powder
- 1/4 tsp cumin powder
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp salt
- 15 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed ot 1.5 cups cooked black or pinto beans
- 2 Tbsp water
For the Nut-free Nacho Cheese sauce
- 1.5 cups non dairy milk
- 2 Tbsp chickpea flour , or other flour like unbleached white
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch , or arrowroot starch
- 1/2 tsp mustard powder
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder or paste , or 1 small clove
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp chipotle pepper powder
- 1/2 tsp paprika or smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp cumin powder
- 1 Tbsp pickled jalapeno , or 1 tsp fresh jalapeno
- 3 Tbsp nutritional yeast
- 2 -3 tsp lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp chopped tomato , or chunky salsa
- 1/4 tsp turmeric, optional for color
- 1/2 tsp salt or to taste
For the Nachos
- Tortilla Chips
- Spiced Black Beans, Recipe Above or Refried Pinto Beans
- Nacho Cheese Sauce, Recipe Above
- pico de gallo or any chunky salsa
- guacamole , or mashed avocado mixed with lime juice and salt
- fresh or pickled jalapeno slices, cilantro and hot sauce (optional)
InstructionsÂ
Make The Beans
- Heat oil in a skillet at medium heat. Add garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients, cover and cook for 10 minutes. Mash some of the beans. Taste and adjust salt and spice.
Make the Nacho Cheese Sauce
- Blend everything in a blender until smooth. Pour into skillet at medium heat. Keep stirring and cook for 5 to 6 minutes so the flour gets cooked through. The mixture will thicken to smooth sauce.
- Carefully taste. Add more salt or spice(chipotle pepper), or lemon juice or vinegar for sour. Use immediately on Nachos.
Make the Nachos
- Warm the tortilla chips in the oven for 5 minutes.
- Layer the chips, beans, nacho cheese sauce, salsa/pico de gallo, another layer of chips, cheese sauce, salsa, then guacamole or mashed avocado, fresh or pickled jalapeno and serve. Add a drizzle of vegan sour cream (optional).
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I made these today (omitting the nutritional yeast) and it was delicious! I’m unable to eat nuts right misfortune my breastfed baby. This hit the spot for cheesy comfort food that was easy to throw together with a new baby around. Thanks!
thats Awesome!!
Nutritional Yeast
Just an fyi – I can not eat Nutritional Yeast – out of the bins – or most sold.
Sensitive to the synthetic vitamins on it – I only can eat UNFORTIFIED Nutritional Yeast – get it on Amazon.
god that is soooo happening….. Mac and cheese………. It will be like chilimac just not……
Awesome!
Absolutely love the cheese sauce
It’s a super hit!
I’ve added onions n coriander n used it as a dip as well!! Thank you.
Awesome!
Thank you!!! I haven’t eaten cheese in six months and I miss it. I had great success using rice flour instead of arrowroot, and rice milk as the non-dairy milk (I’m allergic to everything else). Next time I might add less chipotle and more vinegar, as it’s a little too sweet and smoky coupled with rice milk, which is naturally sweet.
I just discovered nutritional yeast today and I think it’s going to make meals a whole lot better, as long as I don’t develop an allergy to that!
Thanks again.
yay awesome!!
Please read my comment about Nutritional yeast – it might help you.
Ok this is the first I tried and it was a hit! The sauce was easy enough to make. Quite a lot for a cheese sauce I know I can make with 3 ingredients… but its vegan and its delicious!! My 1 1/2, 4 and 5 year old loved it and even my chef husband who is not vegan, and probably never would be. I added fresh spinach, fresh shredded red cabbage, diced broccoli, shredded carrots and diced fresh bell peppers! We make rainbow nachos! 🙂 You should try it! Thank you this was great 🙂
awesome! sounds like one fabulous nacho plate! yumm!
oh my goodness!! this sauce is unbelievable and the nachos were fabulous. we added a lot more fixins for a loaded dinner!
i used the cheese sauce for cauliflower cheese – so good!
Richa…the sauce BLEW US AWAY! We had been buying Heidi Ho Chia Cheez because we don’t like the way Daiya or Follow Your Heart melt for nacho night (that’s Saturday in our house!) and it’s very $$$ here in Hawaii. We followed exactly, used unbleached flour, maybe a touch extra lemon at the end as suggested, and it is by far the most creative, amazing thing ever! Thank you thank you!
I made this recipe today and I don’t know why the cheese sauce didn’t taste good at all. I had to dump it. Everything else turned out great.
oh no, maybe the chickpea flour didnt cook through. chickpea flour can give an aftertaste if not cooked well. try white flour or some cashew cream instead.
This looks like a great recipe, but I do have one teensy question: At what oven temperature do you warm the tortilla chips?
at 325 or 350 degrees F for 4 to 5 minutes.