This easy Green Bean Casserole recipe is vegan-friendly and the perfect side dish for a holiday meal.
Course Main
Cuisine Vegan
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 50 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour
Servings 5-6
Author Maria Koutsogiannis
Ingredients
1 1/4cupraw cashewssoaked in water for up to at least 3 hours
1 3/4cupwater
1cloveof garlic
2tsplemon juice
1tbsp.nutritional yeast
season to taste
1tbsp.olive oil
3cupscremini mushroomsthinly cut
2shallotsfinely chopped
6cupsgreen beans
1 1/2cupsof Original Trisciutroughly chopped to form a breading
1/2cupvegan parmesan cheese
Instructions
Soak cashews for at least 3 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 350F.
Into a blender add your cashews, water, garlic, lemon, seasoning and nutritional yeast. This will need to blend for around 1-2 minutes or until perfectly smooth, like cream!
Into a medium pan add olive oil and heat for a few seconds on medium before adding your mushrooms, shallots and garlic. Season to taste and cook down till the mushrooms have reduced by nearly half. Add your green beans to the pan and stir till everything is well mixed. Pour your cashew cream into the beans and stir once again till everything is well coated. Transfer the beans in sauce into a 12 X 8 inch casserole dish. Top with your crushed Triscuit Crackers and vegan parm.
Cover casserole dish in tin foil and bake for 30 minutes at 350F. Remove tin foil and finish cooking for 10 more minutes.
Serve hot as the perfect side this holiday season!