No dairy needed in this Creamy Nut-Free Vegan Nacho Cheese Sauce! Low-fat, gluten-free, paleo, and allergy-free; everyone can enjoy some healthy dipping! A tummy-friendly recipe, made quick & easy in a blender. You’ll be using this queso sauce for more than just chips!
We are about to get saucy up in here! Creamy, luscious, and a whole lot of cheesiness! What you won’t see is any dairy or nuts. This vegan nacho cheese sauce is super healthy, low-fat, and the perfect substitute to fool any dairy eater! So many vegan cheese sauces use nuts. Not so food allergy friendly, plus it’s super high fat and calories for something like a simple dip. When you dip…you want to dip A LOT (not some small tablespoon serving!)
You know I always have you back in these food-crisis situations. Everyone should be able to enjoy some nacho cheese sauce, aka queso. From traditional nachos to burrito bowls, and tacos. It’s not only a staple Mexican condiment, but a good ‘ole essential party party dip! Corn chips were made for dipping into some cheese sauce, regardless of them being nachos or not.
The cheese sauce/dip I grew up with was THIS bad boy. I think I’ve mentioned these childhood memories before, but I get all nostalgic thinking about this queso dip anytime I see it in the store. My dad and I used to LOVE eating it. It was “our thing” (my mom and brother never cared for it). When my dad was finally home from work on the weekends and liked to chill out in-front of the TV, sometimes I’d find him with a jar of that queso and some corn chips. I’d snuggle up next to him, sitting on the floor in-front of the coach, and join in on the dipping and munching.
The thing about that store-bought queso cheese dip was that is had zero-health benefit whatsoever. Just a bunch of processed liquid “cheese”. So what’s a girl to do in the present day? Make her own! And while she’s at it, make it totally vegan, paleo, gluten-free, and allergy-free. Right in this snazzy new blender from GoWISE so there’s no fuss involved and only one blender to clean.
You guys know I’m the least likely person to get excited about a blender, but wait! This is NOT you typical blender in any way, shape, or form. By its official name, the “GoWISE USA High Performance Professional Heating Blender (Premiere)”, this blender actually heats things (i.e. it cooks stuff!). Say you want to make a blended soup, but don’t want to heat it in a pot, well now you don’t have to! Say you want to make queso dip and have it hot and ready right on the spot, well my friends, you can do just that!
My nacho cheese dip is POTATO based and that means you’d typically have to boil the potatoes separately before blending them up. Not any more! All you have to do is chop them up throw them in the blender with some non-dairy milk and let the magic heating blender do its cooking magic. In the end you have nice hot, steamy, creamy, nacho cheese sauce ready to devour! Let me show you just how easy it is…
Creamy Nut-Free Vegan Nacho Cheese Sauce
- 3 Cups Cubed Red Skinned Potatoes
- 1 Cup Unsweetened Non-Dairy Milk
- ¼ Cup Pimentos
- 3 TB Nutritional Yeast
- 2 TB Green Chiles (optional)
- 2 TB Arrowroot Starch
- ½ Tsp Turmeric
- ½ Tsp Onion Powder
- ½ Tsp Garlic Powder
- ¼ Tsp Mustard Powder
- ¼ Tsp Paprika
- Place the cubed potatoes and milk in the GoWISE blender and allow the contents to heat on the "soup" function for 5 minutes.
- Then press the "chop" function, while the contents are still heating, to pulse the mixture until the potatoes have mostly blended up into the milk.
- Turn the blender off and add the rest of the cheese sauce ingredients to the blender.
- Use the "pulse" function and allow the sauce to blend together for 20 seconds.
- Pour into a bowl to serve or allow to cool and store in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days.
Isn’t that awesome? I had previously been making this vegan nacho cheese sauce the old boring way, but then this magic blender graced the presence of the Strength and Sunshine kitchen and nothing will ever be the same. You can cooking sliced up meat in this blender if you’re making some “meaty” soup. It’s that powerful! Lucky for you, this professional blender is pretty affordable in terms of blenders and you guys get a special 15% off discount with my code GWStrength and free shipping on Amazon!
So tell me:
+ What’s your favorite dip for chips?
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Oh I love nachos and these would go perfectly with them, delicious.
Gotta have that “cheeze” sauce!
Great looking nacho cheese, Rebecca – I make mine with potatoes too, they work so well, don’t they? xx
All the creaminess without any nuts 🙂
OMG! This is amazing. It was sure a treat for a cheese loving family. We enjoyed it with nachos, french fries and bread sticks. Thank you for sharing this.
I am so glad you made it and loved it!
Mmmmmm! That looks good.
Lol, thanks.
Mmmmmm, nachos! I just love these little babies! Your nacho sauce sounds and looks delish!
They are always great.
This sounds amazing! I can’t wait to make it!!!
Sure, thanks.
This recipe looks delicious!
Thanks!
This looks good! Nacho Cheese is so good!
Always needed, right!?
Love a vegan cheese dip!
I bet you do.
I love nacho cheese!! I am living a dairy free diet now!! Thanks for this recipe!!!
Great!
What a cheesy looking nacho dip – I’d dunk my corn chips in that any day! Love how many ‘cheesy’ vegan recipes are out there these days making it easier and easier for people to eat food they are familiar with. Sharing!
Exactly! Vegan cheeses are 10000x better anyway in my opinion!
I’ll definitely be making this! Looks soooo yummy. My vegan friends will definitely appreciate!
Awesome! Thanks!
Wow, this looks so delicious. We are trying to eat less animal products but we love cheese so it’s difficult to give it up. So I’ve been thinking about trying some vegan cheese substitutes. We’ll have to try this out.
Haha, no so difficult now!
This sounds fantastic!
Thanks!
Oh thank you! I could easily devour a bowl of this myself!
Looking for ways to cut cholesterol and unhealthy junk food.
I can’t wait to try it!
Dip and pour it on everything!
Sounds delicious! What a creative solution!
Thank you!
I think I want to dive into a bowl of this. It would be a healthy swim. 😉 Thanks so much
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I totally support diving right in 😉
This sounds delicious!
Sure is!
I was wondering how you were going to get a cheese sauce together without using nuts as you mentioned at the start of your post. Very intrigued that you used potatoes. Pretty ingenious I’d have to say! Oh, and I do have a blender so this IS something I would be able to try, as opposed to not yet having an air fryer and not yet being able to try any of your amazing air fryer recipes. Maybe Christmas for those recipes eh Rebecca? 😉
Ah, but you’ll have to stay in the dark ages and boil the potatoes and heat the sauce separately 😉
I can’t wait to try this recipe on Taco Tuesday!
Yes, ma’am!
This recipe sounds interesting. I don’t usually cook vegan but you are so right the amount of calories in dips is insane. I’ll have to try this.
Angela
This can be a healthy addition to any party!
Sounds super good! I’m always down for some nacho cheese!
Perfect for dipping and pouring!
Made with potatoes. Wow, that is so cool!
The greatest food on this Earth!
That looks so tasty!!! Way healthier than the alternative!
And you’d never know 😉
Can I come over? That looks good.
We’re waiting for you!
This nacho sauce is so creative and looks really tasty! I love how healthy it is! I know my vegan friends will love this.
Super healthy! Thanks!
This sounds really tasty and a perfect snack for entertaining guests! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Yes! An essential party dip!
I think all I’m missing is the arrowroot starch but seems simple enough! Thanks for sharing 🙂
You can use corn starch or potato starch, whatever you have depending on your dietary preferences!
Can’t go wrong with queso!
No you can’t!
Oh gosh this looks so good!
Thank you!
This looks delicious and I would have never thought of adding arrowroot starch!
It’s just a thickener.
Yum!! This looks so good! I absolutely love nutritional yeast and need to remember to use it more often for that cheesy flavor I often miss.
I literally could just drink nooch straight up 😉
Looks great.. with 2 vegans 2 veggies and me the coeliac … this will go down well with everyone … Thanks for sharing 🙂
ALL the queso for you 😉
This looks SO good! Love that it is suited to anyone I wanted to serve it to as well. Perfect to pour on tacos for taco Tuesday tomorrow :-).
That’s a great idea 😉
We don’t need to eat gluten free but this wouldn’t stop me from making this great looking creamy dish. Plus always like to have recipes on hand for my gluten free friends.
Ugh, okay?
You’re making me hungry… Very good post!
Enjoy!