Holiday Vegan Cheese Log

A creamy vegan cheese log coated in crunchy pecans and recent herbs is ideal for vacation events served with crackers and veggies. This recipe is tremendous straightforward, scrumptious, and versatile! (gluten-free, soy-free and nut-free choices)

This is a wow-worthy, tremendous straightforward vegan cheese log that you could whip up for any get together, potluck, or vacation gathering. It’s scrumptious, tacky, and creamy with a improbable pecan-herb crumb which provides great texture and taste. 

The vacation cheese log pairs fantastically with all types of veggies, crudites, crackers, fruit, and even spicy jams and chutneys. It’s excellent on a charcuterie board served with mango chutney and paired with one in all my cheese balls, like my Jalapeno popper cheese ball.

You can even use this creamy cheese as a ramification for baguettes or bagels and even to make grilled cheese, quesadillas, or mac and cheese. For mac and cheese, simply add some inventory to a pan, warmth it up with the cheese log to make a sauce, and toss in your cooked pasta of alternative. 

This vegan cheese log recipe is versatile and simple to adapt to your taste profile. Try including paprika and jerk seasoning, Cajun spices, or further pink pepper flakes for a spicy model.

Why You’ll Love this Vegan Cheese Log

• creamy vegan cheese log coated in crunchy toasted pecans and recent herbs
• excellent for events, potlucks, cheese boards, and charcuterie boards
• straightforward to make and versatile! Try completely different base and seasoning choices.
• straightforward to make gluten-free, soy-free, and/or, nut-free

Ingredients

• cashews – Soaked cashews are the bottom in your vegan cheese log. You could make a cashew-free model utilizing almond flour or a nut-free model utilizing tofu, should you choose.
• tapioca starch and flour – To thicken the vegan cheese base. For gluten-free, use further tapioca starch as a substitute of the common flour.
• salt, herbs, and spices – For the cheese base, you will have salt, garlic powder, onion powder, dietary yeast, sage, basil, and thyme. For the coating, we’re utilizing inexperienced onion, thyme and different recent herbs of alternative plus paprika and pink pepper flakes.
• lemon juice – Adds that tacky tang.
• white miso and tomato paste – Gives the cheese log a wealthy, tacky, umami taste. Use chickpea miso for soy-free.
• further virgin olive oil – Ups the decadence issue!
• pecans – To coat the cheese log. You can use pumpkin seeds for nut-free.

How to Make a Vegan Cheese Log

Soak the cashews, should you haven’t already. Drain the cashews and add them to a blender with all of the cheese log substances. Blend for one minute, then let the combination sit for 5 minutes. Blend once more for 30 seconds, and verify the feel. It needs to be creamy with no gritty cashew items. If it’s nonetheless grainy, mix once more for one more 30 seconds to a minute till fully easy.

Heat a medium to massive skillet over medium warmth, and add the blended cheese combination. Cook, stirring steadily, till it begins to bubble and thicken. It will get lumpy at first. Just preserve stirring, and it’ll easy out and thicken evenly. Once the combination has thickened evenly, flip off the warmth and let it cool for 10 to fifteen minutes within the skillet off of the range.

Scoop the cheese combination right into a bowl or form it in the course of the skillet right into a tough log form. Refrigerate for about half-hour to assist it agency up slightly bit.

Meanwhile, toast the pecans in a skillet over medium warmth for 3 to 4 minutes till they begin to odor roasted. Remove from the warmth and coarsely chop. Coarsely chop all of the recent herbs and inexperienced onions, as properly. Mix the pecans and herbs on the slicing board, and chop them collectively, so they’re evenly combined.Then, add the paprika, and pink pepper flakes and blend in.

Remove the chilled vegan cheese log from the fridge. Grease your fingers frivolously, take away the cheese from the skillet or bowl, and form it right into a easy log of your most well-liked measurement. Roll the log within the pecan-herb combination till all sides are evenly coated.

Transfer the vegan cheese log to a serving tray or board.

What to Serve with a Vegan Cheese Log

Serve with crackers, crisps, carrots, celery, apple slices, cucumber, or different greens. It additionally pairs fantastically with nuts, spicy jams, or chutneys, if you wish to use it in a vegan cheese board.