Plant-Based Swissy Cheese 🧀
Recipe is on a card in the last photo.
Here's a version of plant-based Swiss-style cheese that's not quite as hard or pungent as its dairy-based cousin. I feel it's a good version to play with and iterate.
It's actually really just a modified version of @eatplantbased.com14's vegan mozzarella that I rather enjoy. Her steps to thicken with agar don't make sense to me (like, you don't heat the mix with cornstarch, so that would never properly thicken, and you don't adjust for the additional water) so I did my own thing after pawing thru some of the cheesy recipe books I have.
Basically I just split the use of the existing water then brought the agar mix back to the rest of the ingredients, blended, and brought that to a saucepan to finish thickening the cornstarch, and finally poured that into a glass dish to chill for several hours. It's a little soft, next time I will increase the cornstarch by 1/2-1 tbsp, or better yet maybe I'll add some rice or oat flour.. and I might reduce the vinegar by 1/2 tbsp. Even as is, I was happy with it, especially because I haven't cooked with agar in many years!
#plantbased #plantcheese #oilfree #kitchenfun