Vegan Alfredo Sauce Recipe

This vegan Alfredo sauce recipe is easy to make, filled with healthy ingredients and tastes incredible! It’s the perfect addition to dinner.

I love a good rich creamy Alfredo pasta but I don’t like the bloated heavy feeling it usually leaves me, which is why this dairy free version is perfect!

Ingredients

In order to make this dairy free alfredo sauce you’ll need the following items:

• Broth
• Raw cashews 
• Cooked potato
• Cooked white beans
• Seasonings

How To Make Vegan Alfredo Sauce

Pasta sauces can be quite the undertaking, luckily this is not the case for this Alfredo sauce recipe! Here’s the simple steps to make this delicious sauce:

1. Blend all ingredients.
2. Mix into your favorite pasta.
3. Serve and devour!

Serving suggestions

Try hard to resist slurping up this creamy Alfredo sauce with a straw, and try it one of these ways instead:

• Mix with pasta like fettuccine, spaghetti, angel hair, or gnocchi.
• Top a stuffed baked potato or mashed potatoes.
• Drizzle over hash browns for a creative brunch.
• Use as a dipping sauce for asparagus fries or broccoli cauliflower tots.

Tips and tricks

Make sure to keep the following in mind when making this vegan Alfredo sauce recipe:

• If you’re not using a high speed blender, soak the cashews overnight or boil them for 20-25 minutes to soften them. Another method is using a coffee or spice grinder to grind them dry (not soaking) into a very fine powder.
• I used red potatoes but any starchy potato will work, just don’t use sweet.
• If you reheat this on the stove, it will thicken a bit. Heat slowly over low heat and add more broth if needed.
• You can store this sauce in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to four days.
• Add spinach or mushrooms to the sauce for an extra veggie boost.
• There is some protein in this sauce, but if you’d like to add more, mix in nutritional yeast, or serve over quinoa.

Common Questions

More Pasta Recipes

If carbs are your thing, (let’s be real, if we could, wouldn’t we eat them ALL the time?) check out these other recipes:

• Vegan Pasta Bake
• Roasted Red Pepper Pasta
• Pasta Fagioli
• Roasted Vegetable Pasta
• Broccoli Pesto Pasta
• Healthy Vegan Chili Mac

Vegan Alfredo Sauce Recipe

Sophia DeSantis

This vegan Alfredo sauce recipe is easy to make, filled with healthy ingredients and tastes incredible! It's the perfect addition to dinner.

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 5 mins

Total Time 15 mins

Course Sauce

Cuisine Italian

Servings 6

Calories 146 kcal

Equipment

• Blender

Ingredients

 

US CustomaryMetric

 

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• 1 ½ cups broth , you can use water but it won’t be as flavorful
• 1 cup raw cashews , see note
• ½ cup cooked potato , see note
• ½ cup cooked white beans , rinsed and drained (I use great northern beans)
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper

Instructions

 

• Place all ingredients, except pepper, into a high speed blender. I like to pulse that in at the end.
• Blend on high until nice and smooth. The heat from the blender will heat it up but you can also heat over the stove a little if you prefer. Heat over low because it will thicken a bit. Add more broth as needed.
• Serve over your favorite pasta or any other way you want!

Notes

• If you don’t have a high speed blender, soak the cashews overnight to soften them. You can also boil them for 20-25 minutes if you forget. Another method is using a coffee or spice grinder to grind them dry (not soaking) into a very fine powder.
• I used red potatoes but any starchy potato will work, just don’t use sweet.
• If you reheat this on the stove, it will thicken a bit. Heat slowly over low heat and add more broth if needed.
• This makes 3 cups, serving size is 1/2 cup.

Recipe by Veggies Don’t Bite, visit our site for more great plant-based recipes.

Nutrition

Calories: 146kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 5gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 386mgPotassium: 222mgFiber: 2gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 1IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 18mgIron: 2mg

Nutrition and metric information should be considered an estimate.

Keyword easy alfredo sauce, healthy alfredo sauce

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