This is a great recipe for homemade date and walnut vegan cheese that can be made with just a few simple ingredients.
Quick and easy to make, this is great to serve with a fresh fruit platter or as part of a vegan cheese platter with crackers and nuts.
Date and Walnut Vegan Cheese
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Plant Milk I used coconut and rice milk blend
- 1/2 cup Walnuts
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
- 2 tsps Sea Salt (Celtic or Himalayan)
- 1 tbsp Agar agar powder
- 2 tbsp Tapioca Starch
- 1/2 cup Hot boiled water
- 1/3 cup Walnuts roughly chopped
- 5 pitted Medjool Dates roughly chopped
Servings: cheese blocks
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Instructions
- Firstly, you're going to need a medium sized saucepan, a blender and some cheese molds (I used mini spring form cake tins)
- Add all the ingredients into the blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into a medium size saucepan and gradually bring to the boil before reducing heat to a simmer.
- After 5-10 minutes the mixture will become thick and creamy (see video). Quickly pour the mixture into your cheese molds.
- Place the cheese molds into the fridge for about 1 hour or until set.
- Remove from molds and serve.
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Hi Anja, This recipe looks wonderful, I can’t wait to try it. I take it your tablespoon is 20ml. I had trial and error with your Smoked Paprika cheese as my tablespoon (being NZ) is 15ml so we ended up with some very nice cream cheese. I have since had successful results with the recipe and just love the taste and it does grate nicely too. I’ve also made your cheese sauce recipe several times, just love it and it’s so easy. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, 20ml 🙂
I am a nut free vegan. Is the half cup walnuts a necessity for this cheese sauce to work ? Could it be left out and maybe more milk added instead? Thanks.
You can use cooked quinoa instead 🙂
Awesome. Thanks.
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Anja – thanks for generously sharing your recipe – its so easy to make!!
Glad you like it 🙂
Hi Anja, I have agar agar flakes. Could you provide an equivalent amount to use in place of the agar agar powder. thank you
About 3 to 4 times the amount.
Hi Anja, Thanks for the equivalent agar powder/flakes amounts. I just made the recipe but didn’t re-watch your video – just followed the written instructions. I ended up blending all of the ingredients as #2 in the instructions states. I didn’t keep the additional walnuts and dates out to add in later. I hope it still sets up and tastes good. I didn’t want to waste it.
Oh no, hopefully it still turns out ok.
Hi Anja, i just made your Herb and garlic cheese. It smells good but i haven’t tasted it yet as it’s still cooling off in the fridge. I have made way too much of it so i need to know how long it will last in the fridge and if i can freeze some of it. Will it still be ok once thawed?….Thank so much Anja, bye…
It will last about a week in the fridge. You can freeze it but it may thaw a little softer. Definitely best eaten fresh 🙂
How long will it keep refrigerated if you don’t use both at once?
thanks
About a week 🙂
Do they taste like cheese.
Many years ago, my husband’s friend in Japan gave us soybean cheese, but need to add soya sauce and spring onions particles. It tastes wonderful, creamy and just like cheese.
Instead of coconut milk and rice water can I use plain water.
Can coconut milk are not 100%genuine, moreover taste do not resemble cheesy.simply coconut milk flavours.
Yes, it tastes like cheese. You can use any plant milk that you like.
As SOON as I watched your video, I ordered the little springform pans, tapioca starch, and agar agar powder from amazon! Just put them in the fridge to set. The only difference I see in my cheese is that the color is more brown. I must have mixed mine in the blender longer.
Glad you like it and have made it 🙂 Enjoy!
How long can this be kept refrigerated? Can it be frozen? How long?
It will last about a week in the fridge. You can freeze it but it may thaw a little softer. Definitely best eaten fresh 🙂
Anja I tried your recipe – however after leaving overnight in the refrigerator it did not get to point of which I was able to cut it – it bassically stayed too creammy – what possibly could have gone wrong? Thanks in advance
Did you use agar powder or flakes. If using flakes you need to use 3 to 4 times the amount. Also, did you use metric measurements as stated or convert to imperial?
Anja I used agar powder and used metric measurments but as I am in Brasil and the metrics are a bit different (we dont use tbsp for instance) so this may have had an impact…… 🙁
Oh no. I use 1 tbs = 20ml | 1 tsp = 5ml. Also, you need to cook it long enough to activate.
Hi Anja, I love your recipes. I want to try this Date and Walnut Vegan Cheese recipe, which sounds amazing! Do you think I could use corn starch instead of tapioca starch? Will it still work? Thanks in advance… 🙂
It should be ok, but tapioca is great because it adds to the overall texture of the finished product.
What is the reason to use tapica starch? Ive seen it in other of your recipes. What can I replace it with? How about rice flour?
It adds stretch to the texture. Rice flour won’t work the same. Try arrowroot.
Hi anya 🙂 Thanks for sharing this recipe I tried it today and it only filled one lil cake tin instead of two. 🙂 any ideas why? what size are yours?
Mine are about the size of my palm.
I tried this today adding a pinch of chilli powder to it. Yum!! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Anja: I will try this with using kappa carrageenan vic agar agar. Interesting recipe.
Anja This recipe should have stated add all the ingredients into the blender except the roughly chopped walnuts and dates. Then adjust the instructions accordingly. I used crznberries instead of dates and cut back on the salt to 1 tsp. But forgot to add the hot water. Will let you know how it turns out soon