pimento cheese brick/sauce

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Pimento Cheese brick/sauce

source: country life vegetarian cookbook

 

1 1/2 cups water

5TBS Agar Flakes

3/4 cup cashew pieces or tahini

1 1/4 tsp salt

2 tsp onion powder

1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes

1/2 cup pimentos ( or red pepper)

2 1/2 tbs. lemon juice

 

Put first two ingredients into small sauce pan and bring to boil.

Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 5 min., stirring frequently. Place

remaining ingredients in blender. Add agar mixture when cooked. Blend

all ingredients on high 1-2 minutes until creamy, stopping blender once

or twice to stir contents. pour into mold and chill over night.

FOR SAUCE: leave out agar. makes a wonderful sauce for baked potatos

and veggies

 

VARIATIONS: to make different flavours, fold in one of the folllowing

before pouring cheese into mold:

1) olive- 3/4 finely chopped olives

2) Toasted Sesame- 2 TBS tasted sesame seeds

3) Caraway- 1 1/2 TBS caraway seeds

4) Dill- 2 TBS dill weed powder

5) onion-Dill- 1 TBS onion flakes and 2 1/4 tsp dill seed or dill weed