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Cashew Ricotta, Cream, Mozzarella, and Garlic Cheese Recipe

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The problem with vegan cheese (and a lot of allergy free food) is that the manufacturers ignore that their ingredients start with a slightly different taste profile than the originals. Instead of working with those different tastes to create a unique foodstuff you can use as a “cheese”, they just bodge right through and declare that the finished product is tastes just like cheddar cheese when at its best it tastes like plastic and at its worst it tastes like cardboard. I had given up on dairy free cheese until I learned about cashew “cheese.” The thing that makes this dairy free vegan cheese recipe work is that it plays into the flavor of the cashews, adds a hint of nutty cheese flavor with nutritional yeast and the slight cheese tang with lemon juice. Cashew cheese doesn’t taste like a traditional dairy cheese (or plastic sawdust vegan cheese) but a unique flavor that allows you to do cheesy things with it. This cashew cheese recipe is very versatile. You can use it to make
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Avenger’s Shwarma Turkey Burgers

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Husband and I watched The Avengers movie and got a hankering for shwarma. The movie was our splurge because Husband’s inner child has been waiting for this movie since he was 12 year old then comic book connoisseur.

Dinner at a shwarma restaurant was not in the afternoon date plans. That’s OK. Husband and I made our own version of Avenger’s shwarma for dinner featuring ground turkey instead of chicken, lamb, or ground beef.

Why?

Because I like ground turkey and that’s what we had on hand.

 HULK LIKE TURKEY TOO!
Like my Avengers Assemble sign? Learn how to make it on Condo Blues.



If you are a vegetarian, give my Shwarma Black Bean burger recipe a try instead.

Shwarma Burger Recipe

You will need:

3 tablespoons Shwarma spices - I buy my shwarma spices premixed at a local international grocery store. Most of those little local shops have better price and selection on spices than my traditional chain grocery store. If you can’t find premixed shwarma spices for sale, use this shwarma spice recipe to mix your own.
3. Cloves (or 3 teaspoons) minced garlic
2 teaspoons salt
1 Teaspoon pepper
½ cup lemon juice
1 pound of ground turkey
Make it:

1. Mix the shwarma spices, garlic, salt, pepper, lemon juice, and ground turkey in a bowl.
2. Allow the mixture to marinade for an hour to overnight in the refrigerator. This allows the Shwarma spices to marinate for better flavor.

3. Roll the mixture into ball and flatten it to make a patty.
4. Broil or grill the burgers until completely cooked through. I chose the grill.

5. Shwarma time!



Shwarma is traditionally sliced into strips and either served in a pita or wrap with shredded lettuce, tomato and topped with taziki sauce.  Taziki sauce isn’t difficult or expensive to make. Learn how to make my  Taziki sauce recipe right here. 
 
 I often use leftover Taziki sauce as salad dressing.

If you have picky eaters, it is OK to serve your shwarma on a hamburger bun with or without the taziki sauce. Feel free to invoke the old, “Thor and Captain America eat their shwarma with vegetables on it” if need be.
 
Sometimes you have to think like SHIELD agent to get a kid to try something you know they will like. Nick Fury would approve.



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Comments

Michelle said…
Yum. Like as in I need to go buy some schwarma spices today. This is a great complement to my kefta kebabs. I'm curious though about what you served with it. It looks like rice with veggies?
May 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Lisa Nelsen-Woods said…
Yes. We are doing an eat from the freezer and pantry month to save money for Blitzkrieg's chemo treatments. My husband cooked brown rice in homemade chicken stock and broccoli because that's what we had on hand.
May 18, 2012 at 10:19 AM

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