Cashew Cheese Pasta with Broccoli
Cashew cheese pasta with broccoli is a creamy vegan main course where soaked cashews, nutritional yeast and oat milk are blended into a silky cheese-style sauce in the Thermomix. The TM7 cooks the fusilli and steams the broccoli while the sauce comes together, giving you a wholesome plant-based dinner with minimal washing up.
About this recipe
Cashew cheese pasta with broccoli Thermomix TM7 is the quick weeknight dinner that proves plant-based comfort food can be every bit as indulgent as the original. Instead of dairy, this recipe leans on raw cashews and nutritional yeast flakes, which the all-in-one kitchen machine grinds and blends with oat milk and homemade vegetable stock paste into a remarkably cheesy, silky sauce. While the fusilli cooks, the broccoli florets steam above, keeping their bright colour and gentle bite. The result is a bowl of steaming pasta coated in a golden, creamy sauce with garlicky depth from an optional clove, finished with ground pepper and sea salt. It is an ideal recipe for vegan and lactose-free households, for students wanting a budget-friendly meal, and for anyone searching for Thermomix TM7 recipes that deliver maximum flavour with minimum washing up. One bowl, one dinner, zero compromise.
Preparation tips
- Soak the cashew nuts in cold water for a few hours beforehand so they blend into an extra silky cheese sauce; unsoaked nuts give a slightly grainier result that still tastes delicious.
- Reserve a ladle of the fusilli cooking water before draining. A splash of this starchy water loosens the cashew sauce and helps it cling beautifully to the pasta and broccoli florets.
- For a nut-free version, replace the cashews with sunflower seeds or silken tofu, and swap the oat milk for soy milk. Children usually love this sauce blended completely smooth with the garlic clove left out.
Recipe variations
- Green upgrade: add a handful of frozen peas or spinach to the Varoma with the broccoli florets in the final minutes, then fold through the cashew cheese pasta for extra colour and sweetness.
- Baked festive twist: transfer the finished pasta and sauce to an oven dish, top with breadcrumbs and nutritional yeast, and grill until golden for a vegan mac-and-cheese style gratin perfect for gatherings.
Thermomix TM7 Benefits
- Grinding mastery - The TM7 grinds the cashew nuts to a fine powder so the cheese sauce turns out silky, not grainy. [Grinding]. [Multi-Function]
- Steaming gently - Steaming in the Varoma of the Thermomix keeps the broccoli florets bright green and tender-crisp. [Steaming]. [Multi-Function]
- Blending silky - The Thermomix blends nutritional yeast, oat milk and cashews into a velvety cheese sauce in seconds. [Mixing]. [Multi-Function]
- Weighing directly - Add the fusilli straight into the mixing bowl as the TM7 scale weighs the pasta to the gram. [Weighing]. [Built-in Scale]
- Heating controlled - Precise heating of the Thermomix warms the sauce gently without scorching the oat milk base. [Heating]. [Precision Control]
Ingredients
- broccoli florets
- cashew nuts
- water
- fine sea salt
- dried fusilli pasta
- nutritional yeast flakes
- garlic clove (optional)
- ground black pepper
- vegetable stock paste, homemade
- oat milk