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This cauliflower sauce tastes incredibly creamy, contains only plant-based ingredients and is healthy. It is also very quick and easy to prepare. It goes perfectly with pasta, but also with potatoes, rice, vegan fritters, vegetables or flatbread. You can find a detailed cauliflower sauce recipe with the exact quantities and step-by-step instructions below.
Season to taste
Just like to the vegan tomato soup or the Uzbek plov, you can add any spices to the cauliflower sauce to suit your taste. You can also add fresh herbs. Freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice is also suitable for refining the sauce.
Achieve the desired consistency
You can adjust the consistency of the sauce, similar to the basil pesto or the vegan sour cream, to suit your taste. If you like it thicker, use less plant milk. If you want the sauce to be more liquid, dilute it with more soy milk or vegetable stock.
Cauliflower sauce not just for pasta
This vegan cauliflower sauce is ideal with pasta. But it also tastes delicious with other side dishes. Serve it with the following, for example
- potatoes,
- rice,
- buckwheat,
- falafel bowl,
- vegan pelmeni,
- gnocchi,
- “Palchiki”.
The sauce is also great as a dip for fresh vegetable sticks, vegan patties or flatbread. Try it with
- lentil patties,
- oatmeal patties,
- red lentil patties,
- kidney bean fritters,
- carrot fritters,
- mountain lentil fritters,
- falafel,
- naan bread,
- Russian flatbread,
- kebab bread.
This cauliflower pasta sauce is
- creamy,
- spicy,
- fine,
- very tasty,
- vegan,
- healthy,
- light,
- with lots of vegetables,
- quick and easy to make,
- ideal with pasta and other side dishes,
- perfect as a dip.
Vegan cauliflower sauce recipe
You only need plant-based ingredients for the cauliflower sauce recipe, which you can find in the recipe box at the end of this post. It is very easy to prepare. This makes the vegan sauce ideal for a quick lunch or dinner.
Step 1:
First, cook cauliflower florets in vegetable stock until soft. In the meantime, fry onion and garlic in vegetable oil until translucent.
Step 2:
Now add the cooked cauliflower, the fried onion and garlic, soy milk and yeast flakes to a blender and puree to a creamy sauce. Then season to taste with spices if necessary.
How to make cauliflower sauce: tips and tricks
- Instead of cooking the cauliflower in vegetable stock, you can also cook it in salted water. Then use more different spices to season the sauce itself.
- Instead of soy milk, you can use another plant-based milk alternative, for example coconut milk, almond milk or oat milk.
- Adjust the amount of soy milk depending on the desired consistency of the sauce.
- Yeast flakes give the sauce a cheesy flavor.
- You can flavor the sauce with any herbs, spices or lemon juice.
Have you made the vegan cauliflower sauce using this recipe? I look forward to your results, your star rating and your comment below on how it turned out and how you liked it. Did you serve the sauce with pasta or another side dish?
Also try these recipes with cauliflower:
- Pumpkin lentil soup – with coconut milk and cauliflower
- Cauliflower curry – vegan recipe with coconut milk for Indian dish
- How to make vegan Russian solyanka: best recipe with mushrooms
Cauliflower sauce vegan
Ingredients
- 300 g cauliflower florets
- approx. 150 ml soy milk (or other plant milk)
- 2 tbsp yeast flakes
- 1 onion medium
- 2 cloves of garlic
- salt
- black pepper
- vegetable stock for cooking cauliflower
- vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- Cook cauliflower florets in plenty of vegetable stock for approx. 10 minutes until soft.
- Peel and finely chop onion and garlic.
- Pour some vegetable oil into a pan and fry the onion and garlic until translucent.
- Remove the cauliflower florets from the vegetable stock with a slotted spoon and put them in a blender.
- Add soy milk, yeast flakes and the onion and garlic mixture to the cauliflower in the blender and puree everything to a creamy sauce.
- Season the cauliflower sauce to taste with salt and black pepper.
- If necessary, you can thin the cauliflower sauce to the desired consistency with more soy milk or the leftover vegetable stock.
- Serve the cauliflower sauce with cooked noodles of your choice.
Notes
- Instead of cooking the cauliflower in vegetable stock, you can also cook it in salted water. Then use more different spices to season the sauce itself.
- Adjust the amount of soy milk depending on the desired consistency of the sauce.
- You can flavor the sauce with any herbs, spices or lemon juice.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for preparing the cauliflower sauce at the top of the article.
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