Dairy Free Parmesan Cheese (Vegan)

Yum! This Dairy Free Parmesan Cheese is one of the quickest and easiest dairy free recipes that you can ever make. Just 5 ingredients and less than 5 minutes needed! It’s also a completely Top 8 free and vegan parmesan cheese recipe. 

Dairy free cheese is one of the most popular subjects when it comes to living a dairy free life. Many people who are considering going dairy free always say, “but what about cheese!”. Others, who are forced to be dairy free, whether from an allergy themselves or someone in their house, also say, “But I need cheese”. Regards of why you are dairy free, you likely miss cheese.  Many on the market dairy free cheese options leave little to be desired to the point many just forgo them altogether. Not to mention the price is much higher, so having to test a bunch of different ones in hopes you find one good one, is a bit pricey. 

Insert: Homemade Dairy Free Parmesan Cheese. 

This homemade Dairy Free Parmesan Cheese recipe is freakin’ amazing. Can I brag for a second? Let me brag for a second. This recipe is so dang good y’all. What’s even better is that this dairy free parmesan is just five ingredients. FIVE! And takes less than 5 minutes to come together. We are diving into exactly how it’s made and all the tips and tricks that you need. 

What ingredients do I need to make dairy free parmesan cheese?

Whether you are looking for a dairy free parmesan cheese, a nut free parmesan cheese, a vegan parmesan cheese, or a Top 8 Allergen Free parmesan cheese, we have you covered.  We made this dairy free parmesan cheese two different ways depending on your food needs/preferences.  We will explain each throughout the post. 

The ingredients that you need to make this dairy free parmesan cheese are: 

• Raw Cashews or Unsalted Sunflower Seeds (if nut free)
• Nutritional Yeast
• Garlic Powder
• Onion Powder
• Salt

Those are the only ingredients that you need in order to make these dairy free parmesan cheese recipe.  Seeing the ingredient list you know that’s it’s a plant based, vegan parmesan cheese recipe. Can you believe it’s that simple?

How do you make dairy free parmesan cheese?

Even more simple than the ingredients for this dairy free parmesan cheese is how you make it. All you do is combine all the ingredients at once into a food processor.  After your vegan parmesan cheese ingredients are inside of your processor, you will pulse it until it has turned into a fine crumble.  After it’s done, scoop it out and place in an air tight container in the fridge for up to 3 months, using as needed. 

When making with a food processor, this dairy free parmesan cheese is finely crumbled, having almost the same consistency that would make it resemble a dairy free grated parmesan cheese. Depending on the size and quality of your food processor you may need to continue to slowly pulse until it’s the desired consistency you need.  

If you want all of your dairy free parmesan cheese recipe to be a fine powder, the best thing you can do is to run it through a coffee grinder in small batches depending on the size of your grinder. 

I’m nut free, how can I make this a nut free Parmesan cheese or a Top 8 Free Parmesan cheese?

Good question! We made this dairy free parmesan cheese recipe two different ways.  When we were testing this recipe, we actually tried is with a variety of nuts, sunflower seeds, and hemp seeds. We came to the conclusion that our two favorite were cashews and sunflower seeds (trust me, the hemp seeds was no good). 

If you are looking for a nut free Parmesan cheese, you’ll want to make the recipe with the sunflower seeds and remaining 4 ingredients. Blend as direct and bam, all done. 

Similarly, if you are looking for a Top 8 allergy friendly parmesan cheese recipe, then you will just want to make sure to use the sunflower option and also that you double check that your nutritional yeast is free from allergens (we use this one and have had great results. 

What dairy free recipes can I use this dairy free parmesan cheese with?

Now that you’ve made your dairy free parmesan cheese recipe, you’re going to what to put it on everything. The taste of the this dairy free parmesan cheese recipe, is absolutely insanely delicious. We won’t even judge if you are just spooning it into your mouth. Either variety is amazing. 

Here’s some recipes that pair well with this vegan parmesan cheese recipe: 

• Roasted Baby Potatoes with Garlic and Parsley
• Zucchini Noodles
• Spaghetti Squash Noodles
• Healthy Turkey Salad (this one is not written as vegan, but can be made vegan by swapping vegan deli meat)

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