Vegan Walnut Parmesan

Name: Vegan Walnut Parmesan
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: ¾ cup walnuts (raw, unsalted, chopped); ¼ cup sunflower seeds (raw, unsalted); ¼ tsp garlic powder; ¼ tsp onion powder; 2 tbsp nutritional yeast; ¼ tsp salt (optional)

Nichole Dandrea-Russert, MS, RDN

4 years ago

Yields4 ServingsPrep Time5 minsTotal Time5 mins

Ingredients

¾ cup walnuts (raw, unsalted, chopped)

¼ cup sunflower seeds (raw, unsalted)

¼ tsp garlic powder

¼ tsp onion powder

2 tbsp nutritional yeast

¼ tsp salt (optional)

Directions

Add all ingredients to a food processor and blend until the walnuts and sunflower seeds are mealy. Important: Don’t over blend or you’ll end up with parmezan butter!

Taste for additional flavors of your choice (more onion, garlic, or nutritional yeast).

Top on veggies, grain bowls, and pasta.

Chef's Notes

Substitutions
Instead of walnuts, try almonds or cashews.

Use all walnuts in place of the sunflower seeds.

Use onion granules and/or garlic granules in place of onion and garlic powder, but know that you might need to use a little more of the granules to reach the same flavor.

Nut-free
Replace the walnuts with more sunflower seeds.