Cheese on Toast- aka Grilled Cheese- the Vegan Way (soya free)

Think this is cheese on toast? Think again...

If you are vegan you might miss the creamy, oozy crunchiness of a grilled cheese sandwich; the tangy Winter comfort snack that is cheese on toast- well here's how to enjoy something very close to that, only better because it has no animal ingredients. We ate this for lunch at the weekend, as the accompaniment to a hearty vegetable stew. The bread isn't even real yeasted bread, but a type of soda bread my husband taught me how to make. The recipe below should make enough "cheese" for 2 people to enjoy it grilled on toast.

The "cheese" does "melt", but without the stringiness of dairy cheese

100g ground cashews

1 level tab nutritional yeast

1/4 tsp seasalt

2-3 tabs lemon juice

30-50ml water (you'll have to play this one by ear)

• Simply whisk all the ingredients together into a paste.
• Leave in the fridge, uncovered, to firm up a little so that it spreads in bread or toast without dripping down the sides.
• Try topping toast, pizza, jacket potatoes and stuffed vegetables with it...