Vegan parmesan alternative made with cashews. Dairy-free, soy-free and gluten-free. Pasta sprinkles for vegetarians and vegans. This is now the third brand of grated 'parmesan'-in-a-tub that we've reviewed, after Bellissimo and Parmazano. After soy flour and coconut flour, this time it's ground cashew nuts doing the cheesy thing:
The cashews are not finely ground, but have a little bit of texture and crunch. The cashews provide the body for this cheese, but it's our old friend nutritional yeast (nooch/yeshi) that provides the flavour. Salt is the only other ingredient.
If you're thinking 'Hey, I could make this stuff at home in 5 minutes', you'd be right.
As with Parmazano and Bellissimo, this stuff is nothing at all like parmesan. What it does do, is provide an alternative that does a similar job. If you're looking for a cheesy/salty topping for your pasta, this will do just fine.
The cashews can't really be tasted, so the dominant flavour is the yeast and salt. It's possibly a bit too salty, but then you'll use very little of it. It's not unpleasant, but don't feed it to your non-vegan friends!
The Good: Simple, salty, tasty
The Not-so-good: It's just yeast and salt...
Veganoo Score: ★★★☆☆
Vegamigo - Parmezzo Cheese
Vegamigo - Parmezzo Cheese
Footnote: Ingredients
Here is the ingredients panel from the pack we reviewed.
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What kind of places sell these vegan parmesans? I looked in a health food shop today and couldn't see any. (They'd also sold out of spray cream - most disappointing!)
ReplyDeleteWe bought ours online from Alternative Stores. Hopefully they will get a distributor.
DeleteNormally Vx (Kings Cross, London) sells it.
ReplyDeleteYou'll get all vegan foods in Bio Organix store in London
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