Posted by Seedy on McDougall Board
I thought this turned out rather well. The nacho cheaze was a dead-on ringer for the real thing (at least to someone who hasn’t eaten cheese in a long while LOL). I think DH’s and DS’s would like this sort of thing – my omni brother liked it.
Bottom Layer:
Beans and corn
Mix together and layer in bottom of 9X13 baking pan:
1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)
1 can dark red kidney beans (drained and rinsed)
1 can sweet corn with peppers (drained and rinsed)
1 can chili beans in sauce (hot or mild)
1 TBS dehydrated onion flakes (or finely diced fresh)
Middle Layer:
Nacho Cheaze (based on recipe from Healthy Heart Foundation)
Combine in food processer or blender:
1 can great northern beans (drained and rinsed)
6 TBS nutritional yeast (not brewer’s yeast)
1/2 C salsa (hot or mild)
2 TBS lemon juice
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp any type of prepared mustard
Blend until very smooth and creamy; pour over beans.
Top Layer:
1 bag of Hashbrown potatoes
I used Simply Potatoes Southwestern Hashbrowns but you can use regular hashbrowns mixed with 1 TBS chili powder
Spinkle hashbrowns over cheaze sauce
Bake at 375 F for 45 minutes or until hashbrowns are brown and cheaze is bubbly.
Makes 8 large serving (and would definitely max out your bean servings for the day if you’re doing MWL).
Fatfreevegan Note: The bean layer came out quite dry for a number of us on the fatfree_vegan email list. We suggest adding at least a cup of a tomato-based sauce to the bean ingredients. Otherwise, the recipe’s terrific, and the Nacho Cheaze is one of the best fake cheese sauces we’ve tasted.
March 25th, 2019 at 8:10 pm
This was great! Thank you for this yummy recipe, I’ll be making it again!
I made a few additions:
ADDED to Bean Layer: 1 cups salsa, 1 can chopped black olives, 1 4oz can diced green chilies.
CHEAZE SAUCE in Blender: Needed to add some water, maybe 1/4 cup, to the Cheaze Sauce in the blender because it was not a sauce or smooth. The water helped it thin out and because a sauce.
Used Simply Potatoes Hash Browns, followed your suggestion but added only 1 teaspoon of chili powder to the potatoes & mixed it throughly then topped the casserole with it.
For US we are doing 12 oz servings, so we got 6 servings not 8.