cheese recipe

August 2, 2001

I found this recipe on a page yesterday and thought that I might try it. (Thanks

to everyone who posted links for Luke, I found them very useful).

This recipe calls for oats - what should I substitute instead?

Has anyone tried making their own cheese? I can only buy a cheese spread from

shops in my city and I would really like a cheese that I could use on pizza and

grilled sandwiches.

LESSARELLA CHEEZ (From " Country Life Vegetarian Cookbook " )

2 cups water

3 Tbs lemon juice

1/2 cup Nutritional Yeast

1/3 cup quick oats

1/4 cup arrowroot or cornstarch

1 Tbs onion powder

1/4 cup tahini (if you don't have tahini, you can use sesame seeds - tahini is

sesame seed paste)

1 1/2 tsp salt

Optional: You can also add 1/2 chopped red bell pepper if you want to make the

cheese more orange coloured. I like to do this. Also, if you are not going to

set the cheese, you can leave out the cornstarch. The oats are enough to thicken

the cheese for pizzas and other savoury cheese dishes.

Blend all ingredients on high for one minute. Pour into saucepan and cook on

medium, stirring constantly until thickened. Put into loaf pan or other mold.

Chill overnight. Remove from mold and slice. Delicious on crackers, pizza or in

sandwiches. For pizza or fondue, use half the amount of arrowroot.You can use

this cheese on pizzas, to make lasagna, macaroni cheese, on the top of mashed

potatoes when making a beanshepherd's pie, on toast with tomatoes. You can make

it thick and set it and cut it the next day or you can make it thinner and pour

it over vegetables as a cheese sauce. I use this recipe most frequently as it

has no nuts or seeds which makes it cheaper. However, if you can afford them,

the recipes with nuts and seeds are so good for nutritional value.N.B.

Nutritional Yeast which is used in most of these cheese recipes is also called

Food Yeast or Savoury Yeast. It is not Brewers Yeast. It can be purchased at

most Health shops.

Marita

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