Description
Gluten Free, Vegan, Refined Sugar Free
This HEALTHY broccoli casserole is the perfect cozy side dish for your holiday dinners. It is made with a creamy, high protein, nut free vegan cheese sauce and topped with healthy cracker “breadcrumbs” so not only is it delicious, it is good for you too!
Ingredients
Scale
Cheese Sauce:
- 2 cans cannelini beans
- 3/4 cup nutritional yeast
- 1.5 cup cashew milk (or other dairy free milk)
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp garlic salt
Casserole:
- 6 cups broccoli florets
- 1 cup “breadcrumbs” (see notes for options)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Drain and rinse beans.
- Combine all sauce ingredients in your food processor and blend until smooth (if you want it thinner, add more milk). Set aside to prepare casserole.
- Fill a baking dish (I’ve used a 2.5 qt dish, you can also use a 9×13.) with your broccoli.
- Take the crackers or chips you are using for breadcrumbs (see notes for options) and put in a small food processor, pulse into small chunks (can also put in a bag and break with hands – this will leave you with larger pieces.
- Pour the cheese sauce over the broccoli, stir to make sure everything is evenly coated, and then top with breadcrumbs.
- Bake for 30 minutes, then broil until breadcrumbs start to turn golden brown.
Notes
Breadcrumb options – you can really use any cracker that you want for these. I have made these with Simple Mills, Iwon Organics, Bitsys, and most recently Kibo Foods chickpea chips. All of them have worked well for me. Some are gluten free, some are high protein, so it just depends what you are looking for!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/9 of pan