Cheese Blintzes (vegan)
A plant-based twist on a classic Jewish dish - thin pancakes rolled and filled with a faintly sweetened vegan cheese filling. Excellent served with fruit sauce and sour cream.
Equipment
- oven
- high speed blender
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 12 Healthy Vegan Crepes
- Cheese Filling recipe follows
- 2 cups Blueberry Sauce or Strawberry Sauce
- 1 cup Easy Vegan Sour Cream* optional
Cheese Filling Ingredients
- 8 oz Firm Tofu
- 1½ cup raw cashews soaked in hot water for 1 hour
- 10-12 ounces Non-dairy Yogurt
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar**
- ¼ cup raw sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1-2 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Make the cottage cheese. Layer a clean tea towel, paper towel, or cheesecloth over a bowl. Crumble the tofu with your hands over the towel until it resembles the texture of cottage cheese – be sure to have some smaller and larger pieces. Wrap the ends of the towel together and squeeze out any excess liquid.
- Drain and rinse the cashews in water. In a blender, process the soaked cashews, yogurt, lemon juice, white vinegar, sugar, vanilla, salt, and nutritional yeast until very smooth. Taste and adjust flavors (lemon, salt, sugar, vanilla, etc), if desired. It should taste good.
- Pour over the crumbled tofu and fold together until combined.
- Assemble the Cheese Blintzes by spooning the cottage cheese blend into the center of a crepe. Spread the mixture into a line and roll up the crepe to make a blintze.
- Place one crepe on a cutting board or plate at a time. Spoon 2 heaping tablespoons of the cheese filling on the bottom half, fold the edge of the crepe over the filling, tuck in the sides, and roll up into a little packet. Arrange the rolls side by side in a greased casserole dish.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 10 minutes before serving.
- Dust with powdered sugar or cinnamon, if desired, and serve with Strawberry Sauce or Blueberry Sauce and a dollop of sour cream.
Notes
* When making the Easy Vegan Sour Cream so serve with this recipe, do not add the garlic powder or onion powder.
** You can use either white vinegar or apple cider vinegar.
These blintzes are delicious served with Blueberry Sauce or Strawberry Sauce. But you can also serve with apple pie filling, cherry filling, or Vegan Lemon Curd.
Adapted from My Jewish Learning