Eco-Friendly Vegan Mac and Cheese Recipes

10-Minute Vegan Mac and Cheese (Madeleine Olivia)

Mac and cheese is one of the favourite comfort food dishes for both Europe and North America. Combining macaroni pasta with a rich melte cheese sauce, some versions use cauliflower instead of pasta, for a carb-free version. The recipe dates back hundreds of years. You can also make the dish with pasta shells. Choose plastic-free pasta and top with vegan Parmesan!

If used, choose vegan butter with no palm oil.

Keep this dish away from pets due to garlic/onion/leeks/shallots (some dishes also use nutmeg). 

Unless you have a food waste bin (made into biogas), it’s best to just bin onion/garlic/leeks/shallot scraps as acids could harm compost creatures.

For tinned ingredients, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on the can to pinch the inner rims together, to avoid wildlife getting trapped at recycling points.

Creamy vegan mac and cheese recipe

This creamy mac and cheese (Vegan Yumminess) uses soaked cashews and cheesy-tasting nutritional yeast for best flavour.

Vegan mac and cheese mix

This vegan mac and cheese mix (School Night Vegan) can be made up, then just mixed to produce a mac and cheese meal when you need one. The recipe uses onion/garlic powder, tapioca flour and cheesy-tasting nutritional yeast (which is also high in vitamin B12).

Vegan cauliflower cheese recipe

This cauliflower cheese recipe (School Night Vegan) starts with a bechamel sauce, then flavours it up with nutritional yeast, white wine vinegar, English mustard and white miso paste. Contains tapioca starch to thicken the sauce.