VEGAN MAC CHEESE

In an attempt to be healthier, and because I already had all but one of the ingredients in my house, I made a vegan "mac cheese". I'm not vegan, I eat fish and eggs and dairy, but I can appreciate a tasty vegan meal, especially when it involves pasta.

It's really easy, all you do is blend up some butternut squash and sweet potato, then add in some fried onion, mustard powder, seasoning, paprika, stock, coconut milk, and soy sauce. Blend that all together and you're done! See the actual recipe on kitchentreaty.com.

Mine turned out a lot....browner than the one in the picture, which could be because I was naughty and used a red onion instead of a white onion, and the sauce was less creamy than the picture as well, but it was still nice. Maybe I should have used the Nutri Ninja instead of the food processor, but then I would have had to do it in batches and I didn't really want to do that. 

The sauce was delicious! It didn't taste like cheese, but I didn't really expect it to. It was a whole different kind of delicious. At first it was kinda sweet, I guess from the coconut milk, so about halfway through my massive bowl it started to get a bit sickly. I added some more soy sauce to make it more savoury, and it continued to be delicious.

The recipe states that it makes loads of sauce, and it's not wrong. I am only one person anyway (though I am one greedy person), but I found that the sauce lasted me another three fair size portions, and it kept well in the fridge for a couple of days.

I will definitely be making this again in the near future since it was so easy. The only part I didn't like was washing up the food processor at the end, but I suppose you can't have it all!