Vegan Lasagna and home made cheese sauce

This is the first time I've made vegan nut cheese sauce and I can not explain to you how satisfying it is to make your own vegan cheese. I felt like a god. Creating cheese from scratch was just so fun, and no animal saturated fat just protein and healthy oils and omega 3's. Cheese that makes your hair and skin glow, helps muscle repair and growth and a healthy brain? Yes-a-fucking-please. Plus nutritional yeast (the stuff that makes it taste cheesy) has a shit load of B12 in it which is essential for us non meat eater.

Now don't expect this to taste exactly like a meaty carbohydrate filled lasagna

it wont

it will taste fucking good though.   

Ingredients

Cheese sauce
1 1/2 cups of cashews (soaked for 4-6 hours)
1/3 cup nutritional yeast
1/2 tsp of salt
3tbsp of lemon juice
tsp each of powdered mustard, paprika and agave
1 tbsp of garlic Italian mixed herbs (or any combination of desired savory herbs, mixes with granulated onion and garlic add to the cheesy taste the best)
3/4 cup of water (may need more, depending on the desired consistency of the sauce)

This is what makes nuts cheesy

- After your nuts have soaked (eh eh eh) drain and place in a blender.
- Add the rest of your ingredients, and blitz. You may need to add more water for a smoother sauce.

Mmmmm creamy cheesy goodness

Tomato Sauce
1 can of chopped tomatoes
1 cup of grated carrot
1/2 cup of grated onion
2 bay leaves
hand full of fresh basil
tbsp of mixed garlic Italian herbs
1 tbsp of lemon juice

- In a pan add the chopped tomatoes, then fill up half the can the tomatoes came out of with water and add that to the pan.
- Add the lemon juice, carrot, onion, bay leaves and dried herb and place the pan over a medium heat. Bring to a gentle simmer and leave to reduce to a thick tomato sauce (20 mins)

3 of your 5 a day in this sauce..

- At the end remove from the heat tear up the basil and stir through the sauce.

Parmesan Topping
1/3 cup of nutritional yeast
1/3 cup of mixed raw seeds
1 tbsp of garlic Italian Herb mix
pinch of salt and pepper

- Clean up your blend and place in all ingredients
- Blitz into fine crumbly texture

Assembly
1 large eggplant
1 large courgette/zucchini
1 red onion
handful of fresh basil
handful of fresh parsley
2 large tomatoes

- Finely slice the eggplant and courgette into rounds, season and pat dry using a clean tea towel or kitchen roll.

-  Roughly chop your fresh herbs and slice your onion and tomato
- Place a layer of your courgette and eggplant on the bottom of a casserole dish. Sprinkle over some of the chopped herbs and onion slices.

-Then top with the tomato sauce

-Then spread on your 'cheese' sauce ( I forgot to take a picture of this layer sorry lads)
- Then repeat (vegetable, herbs and onion, tomato, cheese) till you have run out of courgette/eggplant
- Top of with slices of tomato, more cheese sauce and sprinkle with the seed Parmesan

Mighty fine lasagna

- Place in a 190 degree oven for 20 minutes or till cooked through and golden on top. VOILA

Greedy fuckers tucked in before I could take a picture!
 Hope you can still appreciate the beauty of it half eaten <3