Name: Easy Vegan Parmesan Cheese
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup hemp seeds; 1/4 cup nutritional yeast; 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder; 1/2 teaspoon onion powder; 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt, to taste

Make this simple vegan Parmesan cheese recipe and sprinkle it over your favorite Italian recipes! This vegan Parm is made with hemp seeds, so it's nut free. No food processor required—just stir together the ingredients and you're done. Recipe yields about 3/4 cup.

Easy Vegan Parmesan Cheese

hemp seeds

yeast

garlic powder

onion powder

fine sea salt,

Simply stir together the ingredients in a bowl or jar until they are evenly dispersed. Taste, and add more salt for more intense flavor (I usually add another pinch or so). You&#8217;re done!

Store this vegan Parmesan cheese in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 months.

Hemp seeds! What a great idea. I'm trying to cut back on dairy and I love making vegan Parmesan cheese. I've made it with cashews but it takes some planning ahead to soak, dry, and blend the nuts. This recipe looks easy and quick to whip up while making pasta. I can't wait to try!

I made the vegan Parmesan cheese tonight and sprinkled it over my spaghetti and marinara. It added so much extra flavor! Delicious!

Amazing! Cashews upset my tummy so was  thrilled to find this recipe. Thank you!

I just made this, and it’s really quite good! Thanks for a great cheese substitute, Kate. Thanks, too, for so many other great recipes. You’ve helped to move us toward delicious vegetarian eating!

Just made this. However, I blended it all so as not to have the whole hemp seeds. I added extra salt which has made it a bit too salty. It's good but a little too gritty I find. I'll be adding it to my pasta this lunchtime! Thanks for the recipe.

Excellent. I typically opt to make parmesan at home, since it's faster than running to the store!

This recipe is great!  SO easy and it tastes just like parmesan--and a perfect way to use up a bag of hemp seeds in the back of my pantry. Thanks for such a creative and tasty recipe!

I had no idea nutritional yeast was so rich in B’s! Also thrilled because the chunk of parm I usually buy ends up mummified in the cheese drawer before I finish it :-)

I may have exclaimed, "Kate!!!" after mixing this up and trying a bit - such a fabulous recipe!  It's so simple and so good.  The flavour is complex - much more so than nutritional yeast alone - and the texture of the hemp seeds is super satisfying.  This will be a pantry staple from now on and I'm so excited to sprinkle it over basically everything.

What a nice blend.  Can't wait to make it!  I have all the ingredients!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! I have a severe nut allergy and I can never eat vegan parmesan cheese recipes because they always involve nuts. This is going to be a staple recipe for me. Thank you for always posting nut alternatives in your recipes. Keep up the amazing work!

Looks delicious! . Can’t wait to try these!


Hi Kate,

I have been trying to ween myself off cheese (so hard!). This simple recipe is the best “faux” Parmesan I’ve ever tasted!  Not a fan of the fake cheeses in the stores as they seem to have so many ingredients that don’t seem natural. Your recipe is perfect on pizzas, pastas, salads-everything; plus, it’s heslthy and delicious. Thanks a TON!! :-)

Made this yesterday and love the taste, texture and ease of prep.  I've made other faux parms over the years, using ground almonds, white miso and nutritional yeast most recently, but this is definitely better, not to mention so much easier.  Thank you, thank you!  Oh, and since I didn't have fine sea salt on hand, just ground in some Himalayan pink salt, which I don't think appreciably changed the flavor profile.

Just what I've been looking for!  I've been trying to go dairy-free and had not found a good Parmesan substitute until this.  I tried it with pasta first and then when it passed that test, I tried using it on an entree for dinner for my husband who hates the smell and taste of real Parmesan cheese.  He loved this!  So excited to have this in my Vegan Wannabe arsenal!

I've tried another vegan parmesan recipe with cashews but never remade it because it was too much of a hassle. This recipe is easier and tastes better. Last night we used it on the Tuscan White Bean, Kale &amp; Farro Stew recipe from your cookbook and it was fantastic! That recipe gets 5 stars too! I'm excited to be able to keep vegan parmesan on hand at all times with no effort.

I made this and it was fantastic and everybody loved it. Because we're recommended to avoid too many oil seeds here in Finland (heavy metals), I made the second batch using almond meal instead of hemp seeds. Not as melt-in-your-mouth delicious but serviceable. 


finally made this tonight for my son &amp; I. very delicious &amp; I was afraid there would be a weird tang flavor from the nutritional yeast and there was not! I hope it’s OK to store in the fridge instead of room temperature because i already keep my Nutritional yeast in the fridge so i figured why not keep consistency

Love this easy and delicious recipe! Thank you!

Easy Vegan Parmesan Cheese

Prep Time: 3 minutes

Total: 3 minutes

Servings: 3

Author : Cookie and Kate

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