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    Dairy-Free Grilled Cheese Sandwiches are Easy to Make from Scratch

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    By Alisa Fleming on September 1, 2020 Dairy-Free Recipes, Kids Can Cook, Sandwiches

    Many years ago, holistic nutritionist and cookbook author jae steele shared her favorite recipe for dairy-free grilled cheese sandwiches with us. It’s a naturally vegan, nut-free, and plant-based recipe that comes together in minutes, uses basic ingredients, and doesn’t require any store-bought cheese alternatives! The “cheese” is simple, but homemade.

    Dairy-Free Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Recipe - vegan, nut-free, soy-free, and plant-based. From scratch and easy to make with basic pantry ingredients!

    Dairy-Free Grilled Cheese Sandwiches are Easy to Make from Scratch

    Like many cheesy recipes, this one uses nutritional yeast. It’s an inactive yeast that’s often fortified with B vitamins, and has the umami vibe of cheddar. It is often sold in natural food stores, but you can easily buy it online. It’s shelf-stable, and stores well in the pantry for a very long time. It’s also very lightweight, so a pound of nutritional yeast is a lot.

    If you want a fortified nutritional yeast, Anthony’s, Kal, and Bob’s Red Mill are good, affordable brands. Red Star is also a brand that we’ve enjoyed, but it isn’t as readily available as it used to be.

    Dairy-Free Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Recipe - vegan, nut-free, soy-free, and plant-based. From scratch and easy to make with basic pantry ingredients!

    Special Diet Notes: Vegan Grilled Cheese

    By ingredients, this recipe is dairy-free / non-dairy, egg-free, peanut-free, nut-free, soy-free, vegan, plant-based, and vegetarian.

    If you need gluten-free, dairy-free grilled cheese sandwiches, use my Grilled Cheeze Sandwiches recipe in the 2nd edition of Go Dairy Free: The Guide and Cookbook.

    4.5 from 2 reviews
    Dairy-Free Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
     
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    Prep time
    10 mins
    Cook time
    10 mins
    Total time
    20 mins
     
    Jae likes to serve these sandwiches with ketchup and pickles, but we think they are great with dairy-free tomato soup!
    Author: Adapted from jae steele
    Recipe type: Entree
    Cuisine: American
    Serves: 4 sandwiches
    Ingredients
    • ½ cup water, plus additional if needed
    • ⅓ cup nutritional yeast flakes
    • ¼ cup flour
    • 1 garlic clove, crushed or grated
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ¼ teaspoon mustard powder
    • Fresh ground black pepper, to taste
    • 1 tablespoon olive oil
    • Dairy-free buttery spread (can sub oil or mayonnaise)
    • 8 slices whole grain bread
    Instructions
    1. In a small pan or skillet, whisk together the water, nutritional yeast, flour, garlic, salt, mustard, and pepper.
    2. Place the pan over low heat, and whisk constantly, like you are making gravy.
    3. Once the mixture gets pasty, whisk in the oil. Turn off the heat and whisk in a little more water if the mixture is too dry.
    4. Spread the buttery spread on one side of each slice of bread (or use mayonnaise or brush with olive oil).
    5. Take four of the slices, and slather the non-buttered side with the dairy-free "cheese." Top with the other four slices of bread, buttered side out. You should have four dairy-free grilled cheese sandwiches that are buttered on the outsides.
    6. Pan fry the sandwiches in a skillet until golden brown on each side.
    7. Slice the sandwiches in half and serve.
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    8 Comments

    1. Purna Rodman on March 27, 2022 5:46 pm

      I added some hot sauce, which was perfect.

      Reply
      • Alisa Fleming on March 28, 2022 10:06 am

        Ooh, yes, a little spice does sound perfect. Thank you for sharing.

        Reply
    2. Hannah on March 27, 2021 6:10 am

      Just made this for my two kids trialling a dairy free diet and they are loving it! Its more like a thick cheese sauce than melted cheese but they don’t seem to mind and are demolishing them as I type.

      Reply
      • Alisa Fleming on March 28, 2021 5:52 pm

        That’s so great! Thank you for the feedback Hannah.

        Reply
      • Margo on December 30, 2022 11:46 am

        I like to put tomatoes on mine.. the tiny tomatoes are good too.
        Thanks for sharing

        Reply
        • Alisa Fleming on December 30, 2022 1:29 pm

          Delicious addition!

          Reply
    3. Sara on December 22, 2020 11:44 am

      Yum!!! I didn’t have mustard powder, so I used ‘regular’ mustard. I also added tomato, it was delicious!!

      Reply
      • Alisa Fleming on December 22, 2020 1:38 pm

        That’s fantastic! Thank you for sharing this Sara.

        Reply

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