vegan chicken alfredo

Chicken Alfredo Pasta

Missing out on your favorite creamy Fettuccine Alfredo dish after going vegan? Don’t fret, plentiful options with what you can recreate with cashew nut cheese and a little almond (or coconut) milk! You can still indulge all you want, and not feel ‘as’ guilty with the caloric intake you’d experience with a heavier dairy-version. What’s better is you can further experiment with a plethora of pasta, and veggie, combinations. Try it out tonight for a hearty meal you can experience with a friend, or for the entire family.

Ingredients $16.00 (6 Servings)

  • Raw Cashews (soaked in water 3-4 hours, if possible) 1/2 cup
  • Lemon juice 1 tsp
  • water (bring to a boil) 3/4 cups
  • Almond (or coconut) milk unsweetened 1 cup
  • Garlic clove chopped 1 unit
  • Olive Oil extra-virgin 1 tbsp
  • Nutritional yeast 2 tbsps
  • Zucchini chopped fine 1 unit
  • Green Onions chopped fine 2 units
  • Pasta (any traditional pasta) 1 cup
  • Vegetable oil 1 tbsp
  • Sherry Cooking wine 2 tbsps
  • Shallots chopped fine 2 units
  • Parsley chopped fine 3 tbsps
  • Chik'n Strips MorningStar Farms Meal Starters 8 ozs

Instructions

  1. Drain raw cashews (keeping 3/4 water from soaking), and combine first seven ingredients in food processor (cashews, lemon juice, water, almond milk, garlic and olive oil) until creamy-smooth.
  2. Prepare pasta by cooking per packaged directions. (Happened to have gluten-free pasta on hand but would have preferred using fettuccine)
  3. Add vegetable oil to pan, heat and combine chicken, zucchini, carrots, shallots, green onions. Saute for 5 minutes.
  4. Add cooking wine to veggies and let simmer 1 minute longer.
  5. Finally, add cooked pasta to veggie/chicken. Mix, add cashew garlic-alfredo sauce.
  6. Garnish with parsley and serve warm.

(NOTE: Mixture of veggies can include peas, parsnip, cauliflower, etc. Any pasta can work, especially penne, fettuccine, or even zucchini pasta if using a spiral vegetable slicer.)

Paul Trusik

35 y/o web guru vegan enthusiast encouraging meat/dairy-free habits. Since college, reaping health benefits of clean eating. Diet is a lifestyle, not a fad.

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