Homemade (vegan) Cauliflower and Macaroni Cheese Recipes

Cauliflower or macaroni cheese is one of your childhood comfort dishes, likely. Yet surprisingly you will rarely find this in restaurants or even much ready-made versions, let alone vegan ones. So master one or more of these delicious recipes, and you’ll always have an animal-kind feast, served with green veggies!

This vegan cauliflower cheese (The Veg Space) uses just a few simple affordable everyday ingredients, you’ll master this in no time.

Before cooking, read our post on food safety for people and pets (many foods including leeks, onion, garlic and spices are unsafe near animal friends). It’s best to just bin allium scraps (leeks, onion, garlic, shallots, chives) as like tomato/citrus/rhubarb scraps, acids could harm compost creatures.

For tinned ingredients, pop lids inside cans (or pop ring-pulls back over holes) to avoid wildlife getting trapped).

Vegan Macaroni Cheese (with peas)

This recipe for vegan macaroni cheese (The Simple Veganista) is a cholesterol-free and plant-based version of everyone’s favourite comfort food! And for added bang for your buck, it adds peas (if you don’t have fresh, look in stores for Pack’d frozen petit pois – organic and in paper packaging).

Also look in stores for Biona macaroni pasta (this also organic and in sustainable packaging – the brand is gradually going plastic-free).

This recipe uses soaked cashew nuts (very good results, but takes a bit of while and not good if you’re forgetful!) If you want to ‘cheat’, you can make vegan cheese sauce (or even buy it), which greatly simplifies this recipe.

If making the homemade cheese sauce with nuts and cheesy nutritional yeast (rich in vitamin B12), avoid miso (unpasteurised) for pregnancy/nursing or weak immune systems).

You can also vary this recipe with Julie’s other recipes: