Delicious & simple, this Vegan Cauliflower Alfredo Recipe is just what you’ve been looking for!
This Vegan Cauliflower Alfredo Recipe makes the perfectly creamy pasta sauce – and when it comes with a healthy touch, who could resist? I love pairing this delicious vegan pasta sauce with plant-powered tortellini, but any type of pasta is great – also gluten free! Ideally, pick a shape that holds sauce well such as Fusilli.
Made from cauliflower and additions such as nutritional yeast and white miso paste, this vegan cauliflower Alfredo holds a delicious load full of healthy nutrients. Indulgence plus nutrition – a perfect combo, if you ask me 😉
What you need to make this Vegan Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce
Ingredients
- Medium head of cauliflower
- Yellow onion
- Garlic
- Sea salt
- Black pepper
- Nutritional Yeast
- Vegetable stock cube
- Drained pasta water
- Soy milk
- Smoked paprika powder
- Sweet white miso paste
- Coconut oil
Equipment
- Steamer
- Large serving spoon to preserve the pasta water
- High-speed blender
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Alternatively, you can also use a stick blender to blend up the sauce ingredients, though the result might not be quite as smooth as using a high-speed blender (I haven’t tested a stick blender myself, so I can’t vouch for it).
How to make this Vegan Alfredo Pasta
The base for the Vegan Cauliflower Alfredo Recipe
To prepare the cauliflower for the sauce, you can either cook, steam or roast it in the oven. I prefer the steaming process as it treats the cauliflower a little more gentle then the other options, but if you don’t have a steamer or simply prefer the roasted cauliflower version, of course, feel free to go that way.
This recipe calls for half the head of a medium-sized cauliflower – that should be between 300-400g of cauli florets in case you’d like some help with sizing the right portion. The full recipe creates enough sauce to cover 2-4 portions, depending on how saucy you like it.
Once you’ve steamed (or roasted) your cauliflower, move it all over to the blender along with your other ingredients and blend until smooth. All you have to do now is heat it through in a medium-size saucepan and pour it over the pasta of your choice!
Feel free to add a little salt and pepper to season and enjoy!
The perfect vegan pasta
You can easily pick your favourite pasta to go along with this Vegan Cauliflower Alfredo Pasta Sauce – you can even go gluten-free or use spaghetti. However, to bring out the full flavour of the sauce, I think it’s important to pick pasta that holds the sauce well, such as Fusilli, Conchiglie, Orecchiette, Tortellini, Campanelle or Farfalle.
I hope you enjoy this recipe just as much as I did – make sure to tag @romylondonuk if you happen to re-create it!
This recipe is:
- Vegan
- Easily made gluten-free (simply use gf pasta!)
- Dairy free
- Super creamy
- moreish & delicious
- quick to make
- easy to follow
- full of nutrients!
- simply amazing!
Vegan Cauliflower Alfredo
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 20
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 2-4 1x
- Category: Pasta Sauce
- Method: Blender
- Cuisine: Italian
- Diet: Vegan
Description
Deliciously creamy vegan cauliflower Alfredo pasta sauce – ready in minutes and full of delicious plant goodness!
Ingredients
- 1/2 medium head of cauliflower
- 1 small yellow onion, roughly chopped & cooked until translucent
- 2 large cloves garlic, roughly chopped & cooked until translucent
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 3 tablespoons Nutritional Yeast
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 100ml drained pasta water
- 70ml soy milk
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika powder
- 1 Tbsp sweet white miso paste
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
Instructions
- Prepare your pasta according to packaging instructions. In the meantime prepare the rest of your ingredients.
- Steam the cauliflower until soft, then transfer to a blender with the remainder of the ingredients. Blend until smooth.
- Transfer the sauce to a medium size saucepan to heat through, combine with your pasta, season to taste with salt & pepper and serve hot.
- Enjoy!
Notes
This recipe makes enough sauce to cover around 250g pasta.
Ensure to cook your onions & garlic in a little oil until translucent before adding them to the blender with the rest of the ingredients. Alternatively replace them with onion & garlic powder.
Keywords: pasta sauce, cauliflower alfredo, vegan cauliflower alfredo, vegan pasta sauce
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Not sure if I missed a step or there is a step missing from the method. I was left with an aftertaste of raw onion and garlic. There doesn’t seem to be a step where these ingredients are cooked other than when the sauce is heated which doesn’t do the job, especially if you’re doubling up the recipe which I did. I think it would be a different dish altogether if the onions, garlic, miso etc were cooked together before the blending step.
Author
Hi Geordie! Oh no, so sorry about that, I had indeed forgotten to add this step in when I was putting this recipe together. Thank you so much for pointing it out! I’ve now updated it on the post and it will hopefully save others the misery 😉 Have a lovely day! 💚