{"id":222,"date":"2016-08-05T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2017-03-08T20:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T01:09:53","slug":"home-made-vegan-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/home-made-vegan-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Home made vegan cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try our recipe for vegan cheese with garlic &amp; herbs, best served with fresh home baked bread and a carpaccio of beetroot and carrots.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Ingredients:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bd cup raw cashew nuts<\/p>\n<p>1 clove of garlic<\/p>\n<p>1 level teaspoon sea salt<\/p>\n<p>1 teaspoon of fresh herbs of your choice (or use dried herbs if you don\u2019t have any fresh ones)<\/p>\n<p>1 \u00bd teaspoons of corn starch<\/p>\n<p>1 tablespoon of fresh lemon or lime juice<\/p>\n<p>water<\/p>\n<p>1 1\/2 teaspoon of Kuzu (Japanese mountain root starch)<\/p>\n<p>Chopped Pecan nuts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Method:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soak the cashew nuts for around one hour in water. Strain and put the nuts into the blender with the garlic, salt, herbs, corn starch, lemon or lime and half a cup of water.\u00a0 Mix all the ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>Dissolve the kuzu in a little water and mix with \u00bd cup of water in a saucepan. Add the cashew cream and bring to the boil stirring the mix constantly until it thickens.<\/p>\n<p>Grease some porcelain molds with a little olive oil and pour the thickened mass into them. Allow for them to cool down and then refrigerate for at least two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Empty the molds onto plates, sprinkle freshly cut Pecan nuts on top and decorate with fresh parsley.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the size of your molds you will get two to three cheeses. There are many variations of this dish, feel free to experiment!<\/p>\n<p>Bon appetit!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try our recipe for vegan cheese with garlic &amp; herbs, best served with fresh home baked bread and a carpaccio of beetroot and carrots. Ingredients: \u00bd cup raw cashew nuts 1 clove of garlic 1 level teaspoon sea salt 1 teaspoon of fresh herbs of your choice (or use dried herbs if you don\u2019t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/home-made-vegan-cheese\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home made vegan cheese<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,111],"tags":[25,23,29,27],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegetarian-peru-adventures-blog","category-vegetarian-recipes","tag-cashew-cheese","tag-vegan-cheese","tag-vegan-recipes","tag-vegetarian-recipes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veggieperu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}