Vegan Parmesan Cheese with Hemp Seeds

Make your own vegan parmesan cheese with hemp seeds and nutritional yeast. It’s the perfect dairy-free topping for pizza, pasta, veggies, salads, popcorn and more. 

Heyo! We’re on our way home from Portland, ME this morning, but I wanted to pop in with a quick recipe I’ve been absolutely loving lately. It’s a homemade parmesan cheese made with just four ingredients — hemp seeds, nutritional yeast, garlic and salt. It’s cheesy, salty and tastes remarkably similar to grated Parmigiano-Reggiano.

Maria and I came up with this recipe on a whim one day while making this lemony rice salad. We wanted to make some sort of cheesy topping for the salad so we used this recipe from Minimalist Baker as a guide and came up with a nut-free vegan parmesan cheese with hemp seeds as the base.

We ultimately decided to keep things simple and use plain hemp seeds as a topping for the salad, but I’m so glad we experimented because the vegan parmesan is so good! Even Isaac, who is a diary-loving cheese man likes this vegan parm. He was skeptical at first, but now he’s a convert.

We’ve been sprinkling this little mixture on just about everything — pasta, spaghetti squash, steamed veggies, salads, popcorn and more. The options are pretty much endless — almost everything tastes better topped with this cheesy, salty vegan parm. And added bonus, each tablespoon has 6 grams of protein!!

This recipe is super simple. Just pulse everything in your food processor or blender for less than a minute to combine or simply stir everything together in a small bowl. Each batch makes over a cup (and a little goes a long way) so just store the mixture in your fridge and use it over a few weeks.

Vegan Parmesan Cheese

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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
Amount Per Serving
Calories 76 Calories from fat 39
Total Fat 4g	6%
Saturated Fat 0g	0%
Sodium 35	1%
Carbohydrate 4g	1%
Dietary Fiber 4g	16%
Sugars 0g
Protein 5g

Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:

	Calories	2000
Total Fat	Less than	65g
Sat Fat	Less than	25g
Cholesterol	Less than	300mg
Sodium	Less than	2,400mg
Total Carbohydrate		300g
Dietary Fiber		25g

Serves 20     adjust servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup hemp seeds
• 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients to a food processor or blender and pulse a couple times until everything is combined. If you don't have a processor or blender, simply place all ingredients bowl and stir to combine.
2. Place mixture in a sealed container and store in the fridge.

by Brittany Mullins

Recipe Notes

Adapted from Minimalist Baker's recipe.

4 2

2 reviews

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
Amount Per Serving
Calories 76 Calories from fat 39
Total Fat 4g	6%
Saturated Fat 0g	0%
Sodium 35	1%
Carbohydrate 4g	1%
Dietary Fiber 4g	16%
Sugars 0g
Protein 5g

Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:

	Calories	2000
Total Fat	Less than	65g
Sat Fat	Less than	25g
Cholesterol	Less than	300mg
Sodium	Less than	2,400mg
Total Carbohydrate		300g
Dietary Fiber		25g

One quick note, you definitely need nutritional yeast for this recipe. It’s what gives the vegan parmesan that cheesy, nutty flavor you want! If you can’t find it at your local grocery store, you can grab it on Amazon. It’s worth it!

PS – I just realized I’m giving you all two hemp recipes this week, but I’m totally okay with it because hemp seeds are where it’s at. Plus, I have a recipe coming soon that uses this vegan parmesan cheese so it had to be shared ASAP. Get excited because the upcoming recipe is a good one!