Cauliflower Nuggets with vegan cheese sauce
Crispy cauliflower baked in the oven with a creamy, hot cheese sauce of almonds – the ultimate comfort food, but healthy & vegan!
Servings: 4 small portions for a snack
Ingredients
Cauliflower Nuggets
- 1 cauliflower
- 150 g flour
- 300 ml plantbased milk
- 1 tsp salt
- pepper, ½ tsp paprika powder, ½ tsp garlic powder
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 100 g bread crumbs
Vegan Cheese Sauce
- 200 g peeled almonds or cashews
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- pepper
- ½ tsp paprika powder
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- 2 tbsp siracha sauce or more to make it spicier
- tabasco to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius or 392 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Cut the cauliflower into small florets.
- Prepare the breadcrumb coating: add 50g flour to the first plate; in the second plate whisk together vegan milk, 100g flour, salt, pepper, peppers, garlic powder, yeast flakes; in the third plate prepare the breadcrumbs.
- Roll the cauliflower florets at the beginning in the 1st plate with flour, then dip them into the milk mixture and finally roll them in the bread crumbs to coat them completely with the bread crust. Place the nuggets on a baking tray and bake them in the oven for 45 minutes.
- Boil the unpeeled almonds and the unused cauliflower stem in water for 5 minutes. Then blend it in a strong blender together with the other ingredients until a creamy sauce forms. Season again to taste with tabasco, if you like it spicier.
- Enjoy the cauliflower nuggets with the hot cheese sauce.