Vegan Oil-Free Pesto & Cheeseless Parmesan | Easy, Healthy & Delicious | Whole Foods Plant Based

Today I'm bringing you a easy vegan parmesan and a quick oil-free pesto, both of which are delicious, inexpensive, simple, healthy, and whole foods plant based. Blog posts with printable recipe cards below. Enjoy!

Cheeseless Vegan Parmesan:

- 1 cup raw cashews; sub with walnuts or hemp seeds
- 1 tbsp oat flour
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tbsp dried parsley
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- salt & pepper to taste

Easy Oil-Free Pesto:

- 2 cups basil leaves *packed, sub spinach or other green*
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 4-6 tbsp water
- 2 tbsp vegan parmesan cheese substitute (i.e. my Cheeseless Vegan Parm)

Timestamps:
Intro: (0:00)
Parmesan Ingredients: (1:10)
Parmesan Instructions: (2:08)
Pesto Ingredients: (3:13)
Pesto Instructions: (3:59)
Taste Test: (5:02)
Nutrition: (5:50)

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The Starch Solution, John McDougall
The China Study, T. Colin Campbell
How Not to Die, Michael Greger
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Meatonomics, David Robinson Simon
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Research:
The BROAD Study

Type of vegetarian diet, body weight, and prevalence of type 2 diabetes. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Reference

A multicenter randomized controlled trial of plant-based nutrition program to reduce body weight and cardiovascular risk in the corporate setting: the GEICO study

Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets

A systematic review and meta-analysis of changes in body weight in clinical trials of vegetarian diets.

Vegetarian diets: what do we know of their effects on common chronic diseases?

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[PlantsNotPlastic]

OBLITERATE IT! Hope you enjoy these recipes!

[JamesKing]

So glad you shared these recipes. I've been trying to find a decent vegan parm. Now I know how to make it. Bonus I now know how to make an oil free pesto too! Thank you so much.

[SummerSunset]

Great recipes! I want try the vegan parm with the hemp seeds for sure🙂

[lightdark]

Hmmm, how can it taste like parmesan with so little nooch? I can't eat cashews, so if that's the key, oh well.

[cnau]

I can’t have yeast of any kind, what’s a good substitute?