Add the cooked macaroni into the pot of sauce and toss it up with the sauce. Then transfer the macaroni and sauce to a 9×13 baking dish and smooth down. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Prepare the crumb topping by breaking up the 3 thick slices of toasted white bread and placing into the blender. This delicious, creamy sauce is a great dairy-free alternative to the classic recipe for Macaroni and Cheese. Adults will love this recipe, just as much as children will! Serve over your choice of gluten-free, grain-free, or spiralized vegetable noodles! However this recipe for quick mac and cheese, which also happens to be lactose-free, is fairly easy to make in less than 10 minutes or so. This particular recipe. And, bonus, it’s totally dairy-free and nut-free. Yes, we're talking vegan mac and cheese. We all know they make a great creamy sauce, but I want this recipe to be accessible to everyone. This means that as well as being dairy-free and nut-free the recipe can easily be made gluten-free too just by using gluten-free macaroni. Add the non-dairy creamer and the almond/rice milk. Continue to whisk to blend well on medium heat. You should have a nice white sauce. Add the Daiya cheese. Stir until completely melted (no lumps). This may take longer than expected-Daiya cheese takes much longer to melt entirely than real cheese.

Baked Mac And Cheese

Between my dog and myself, we have a host of dietary hurdles to overcome. He can’t digest protein or citrus; I can’t have gluten or dairy. We’re a hot mess, he and I, yet we make it work. I diligently make him banana and potato biscuits every week, and for myself, I indulge in the most verboten dish of all for the lactose and gluten-averse: mac ‘n cheese.

I like this recipe for a lot of reasons. It’s super easy, fast, cheap, and allows for endless customization. But best of all, it reminds me of the blue-box version my mom used to make when I was young. We all know this box. Delicious when you’re age 8, but tastes more like chalky nostalgia in your 20s.

Best Dairy Free Mac And Cheese Recipe

The process is exactly the same for this recipe, only I’ve substituted high quality, diet-friendly ingredients for stuff in the box. The starchy pasta water helps everything bind together without the need for milk. I can usually tolerate a small amount of butter without my body staging a coup d’etat, but if your dietary sensitivities are more severe, a substitute like Earth Balance works fine. I like using Daiya vegan cheese and use a combination of 60:40 cheddar to mozzarella to add a clingy thickness to the sauce, plus gluten-free noodles, but the recipe is essentially a template. Modify however you see fit — regular pasta, different varieties of vegan cheese, add blanched peas or sautéed kale…the world is yours.