Creamy Vegan Sauce

This top-notch Creamy Vegan Sauce is the perfect thing for everything. From pasta to snack dip, spread for your sandwiches and arepas, topping for your artichokes, or even salad dressing.

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You can instantly decide the needed texture without changing the flavor profile of this plant-based veggie dip. For instance, we make a little bit runnier when we use it as a dipping sauce on this artichokes' appetizer recipe.

This easy-to-make vegan sauce for vegetables can be used for anything vegan.

It is a vegan alternative for anything that you want to do with a creamy sauce. So, let's just start this vegan saucy journey...

This Basil and Parsley Creamy Sauce is OUR kind of sauce. That kind that I can rest assured that if I have some in the fridge, I can make a lunch or dinner in minutes, or turn any bland-flavored rice, pasta, or salad into something full of flavor, with a good punch and still delicate.

This plant-based veggie dip works for any given pasta, Falafels. Sometimes we use Hummus and sometimes this Creamy Sauce. It's magical, you can thicken it up or thin it, to your liking, simply adding or taking some of the dairy-free plant milk, such as almond milk.

This is the sauce we use for our artichokes with dipping sauce, we love it. MAkes an excellent vegan side dish.

It also makes a great non-dairy pasta sauce. We love using this sauce for any given pasta and then topping it with our 5-minutes vegan parmesan cheese recipe.

We also love using this vegan dipping sauce to make Vegan Arepas (one of our favorite comfort food). It takes them to the next level!

Last but not least, you can even use the sauce to dip in tortilla chips, or add it on top of veggie burgers, to bring the flavors to the next level!

Sauce recipe ingredients

• Spring onion
• Parsley
• Lemon juice (or lime juice)
• Basil
• Peanuts (or cashews)
• Olive oil
• Plant milk
• Salt and black pepper

Make Sure you use fresh Basil and Parsley.

Optional: add a teaspoon of maple syrup to add a sweet note.

See quantities and full instructions in the recipe card.

I hope this preparation sneaks into your Kick-Ass Easy Recipes Book! Let me know how it goes!

Instructions

This Sauce takes only 5 minutes to make.

Just put the ingredients inside a hand blender, table blender, or Food Processor, and blend until creamy. Then, adjust the consistency with oil or vegetable milk.

Storing

You can use it immediately on hot pasta and serve or give it any other use. You can refrigerate for up to 3 days.

Variations and substitutions

If you don't have shallots, you can add a teaspoon of adobo sauce.

Sweet notes can be added using a teaspoon of maple syrup.

You can also replace the peanuts with a half-cup of peanut sauce, peanut butter, or tahini sauce.

A tablespoon of Nutritional yeast can be added if you are looking for an extra cheese flavor.

My Inspiration to develop the recipe

When in Rome... We had lots of this sauce! Everyone fell in love with it!

I started making this sauce on our recent trip to Rome, where we spent the holidays.

My friend Tommy welcomed us to his apartment in the middle of the city, and as soon as we arrived, he showed us some beautiful artichokes he had in a flowerpot and said: please make something with them! I love artichokes; get creative!

I have always liked artichokes but have never been a self-proclaimed fan of them. So, I didn’t have an artichokes recipe in mind, so I googled for inspiration.

I ended up cooking artichokes in some different ways, as you have already seen in my previous post: Carcioffi Alla Romana (Roman Style Artichoke). One of the recipes I stumbled with had a similar version of this sauce.

I tried it, liked it, and started changing some ingredients until I got to this basil and parsley version, which we completely fell in love with.

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Food safety

We sometimes take for granted that we have years (or decades) of cooking experience that the average visitor may not. Add to, or remove from, the list below with health and safety tips.

• Cook to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
• Do not use the same utensils on cooked food that previously touched raw meat
• Wash hands after touching raw meat
• Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
• Never leave cooking food unattended
• Use oils with high smoking points to avoid harmful compounds
• Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove

See more guidelines at USDA.gov.

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