Creamy 30-minute Vegan Chicken Alfredo Recipe made with simple ingredients and easy methods. Add vegan parmesan cheese for a satisfying plant-based meal and meet all of your creamy Alfredo needs!
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💡 The recipe in a nutshell
- Vegan (eggless and dairy free)
- 30 minute recipe
- Nut free
- Simple Ingredients
- Creamy and rich
- The ultimate comfort meal
- Make it gluten free with GF Pasta!
👩🏽🍳 How to
Let's be honest, Alfredo Sauce is unbelievably delicious! Unfortunately due to the parmesan, it's usually not even a vegetarian sauce (yup, parmesan cheese is usually not vegetarian). However, when we go plant-based we sometimes crave those indulgent meals we grew up with or used to eat. I just had to create a Vegan "Chicken" Alfredo recipe. The chick'n by the way is tempeh!
Instead of using butter and heavy cream, we will make a creamy base out of white cannellini beans, nutritional yeast, coconut milk & some seasoning! I know sounds weird at first, but believe me - once you blend it all up and cook it, it turns into an incredible plant-based cheesy Alfredo sauce!
🤔 Is Alfredo sauce Italian?
I hate to bring it to you, but the rich and creamy Fettuccine Alfredo most Americans know and love is in fact not Italian! Americans invented a whole new version of Alfredo that we know today. They made it richer, creamier, added meat and spices and formed it into the staple of American Italian cuisine. What is the Italian version then? It's simply fresh fettuccine tossed with butter and Parmesan cheese. That is by the way the version I grew up with in Germany. Not before I was in my teenage years did I discover the American version of Alfredo.
🍝 More vegan meals
Looking for more hearty plant-based meals? Try this veganized version of a classic Lasagna, or make this easy Spaghetti Bolognese. For more meal ideas browse our recipe page.
📖 Recipe
Creamy Vegan Chicken Alfredo (30 Minutes)
Equipment
- non-stick pan or skillet
- pot to cook pasta
Ingredients
To Serve With
- 300 grams pasta of choice eg: fettuccine; use gluten-free pasta for GF version
- 30 grams vegan parmesan eg: Violife
- 1 shallot finely chopped
- ½ teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 150 grams tempeh diced
Alfredo Sauce
- 1 can white cannellini beans
- 100 mililiters vegetable broth
- 3 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 120 mililiters full fat coconut milk
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Preparation
- Gather all ingredients. Wash and cut shallot, grate vegan parmesan, and dice tempeh.
- Add the pasta to a large pot of boiling, well-salted water and cook according to package instructions. Once cooked, drain and cover to prevent drying.
- Meanwhile, add olive oil to a pan and heat. Once hot fry shallot on medium heat until translucent.
- Add diced tempeh and fry until crispy. Once done, add everything to a bowl and set it aside. Wipe out the pan, so you can use it to cook the sauce in it.
Make Alfredo Sauce
- In a food processor, combine the beans (including the bean water), vegetable broth, nutritional yeast, garlic powder, onion powder, and Italian seasoning. Blend for around 2-3 minutes or until smooth.
- Add the blended bean mixture to the pan. Then, add the coconut milk and vegan parmesan, and stir until combined. Bring to a boil and let simmer on medium to low heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the cooked pasta and fried tempeh with shallot to the sauce. Mix until everything is covered in sauce.
- Serve warm and enjoy!
Nutrition
The provided nutritional information is an estimate. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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Absolutely delicious! 10/10
Thank you, that makes me happy to hear!
I can't believe how creamy and delicious this pasta sauce was! It is amazing what you can do with cannellini beans. We're making this for dinner again tonight! Highly recommend!
I didn't realize alfredo is not Italian! What?!?! haha. This recipe was so delicious and I love that it is made with beans. It makes me feel better about how much I ate....
i couldn't believe this was vegan!! SO CREAMY and tasty!
so incredibly creamy! will definitely make again! so so good!
This Alfredo is perfect! I am so obsessed I am already planning to make it again!
I live with pasta and when I saw this vegan alfredo recipe I knew I have to make it.
So creamy and delicious! Just perfect.
OMG, I'm obsessed with ALL alfredos, I have been since I was a kid, but this one is really different and totally delish! I love that there's no dairy.
This was so amazing! I made it last night, and it was so creamy and delicious that I ate too much and fell asleep shortly after. Thank you for sharing such a cozy and indulgent recipe! I had some leftovers this morning, and they're super good as leftovers as well!