These Vegan Scalloped Potatoes are super rich and creamy, soft and tender and super comforting! They're flavoured with fragrant verbs and garlic, and packed with caramelised onions. They're also gluten-free, and are the best indulgent yet secretly healthy side dish! Perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and everything in between!
How to make this recipe
Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the full recipe.
- Place the cashews, water, nutritional yeast, stock cube and salt + pepper in a food processor or blender.
- Whizz until completely smooth.
- Fry the onion and garlic until softened and slightly caramelised.
- Lay out half of the sliced potatoes in a baking dish (I used one measuring 26 cm (10 inch) by 18 cm (7 inch) and 7 cm (2 ½ inch) tall).
Tip: You can use a knife and a chopping board to slice the potatoes, or you can also use the slicer setting on a food processor or a mandoline slicer.
- Top with half of the fried onions and garlic.
- Pour over a third of the blended cashew mixture.
- Lay out the remaining potatoes, remaining fried onions and garlic and sprinkle over the herbs.
- Pour over the remaining blended cashew mixture.
- Cover the baking dish with baking paper or tin foil.
- Bake in the oven for 1 hour, or until potatoes are soft enough to gently pierce with a fork and the top is golden brown.
To prepare ahead, bake them in the oven as normal, then keep covered in the fridge for up to a couple of days. Just reheat in the oven covered with baking paper or tin foil until piping hot.
This dish works with any type of potatoes. If you're not into potatoes, they can be replaced with sweet potatoes, cauliflower or celeriac - just adjust the cooking time accordingly. You can peel the potatoes if you want, but I don't think keeping the skins on affects the texture at all. Plus, it's much easier and more nutritious that way!
More vegan potato side dishes
- Potato Salad
- Potato Dauphinoise Gratin
- Creamy Mashed Potatoes
- Scalloped Sweet Potato Gratin
- Sweet Potato Fries
- or check out my whole collection of vegan potato recipes!
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Watch how to make it
Vegan Scalloped Potatoes (Gluten-Free)
Ingredients
- 100 g (⅔ cup) cashew nuts soaked overnight in cold water or in boiling water for 15 minutes
- 600 ml (2 ½ cup) water
- 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 1 vegetable stock cube (ensure gluten-free if necessary)
- Salt + pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon oil (coconut, rapeseed, vegetable or olive)
- 1 onion , thinly sliced
- 4 garlic cloves , minced
- 750 g (26.5 oz) potatoes , thinly sliced
- Few sprigs rosemary or thyme to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Drain the soaked cashews and place in a blender or food processor with the water, nutritional yeast, stock cube and salt + pepper.
- Whizz until completely smooth.
- Heat up the oil in a frying pan and add the onion and garlic once hot.
- Fry for around 10 minutes, until softened and slightly caramelised.
- Lay out half of the sliced potatoes in a baking dish (I used one measuring 26 cm (10 inch) by 18 cm (7 inch) and 7 cm (2 ½ inch) tall).
- Top with half of the fried onions and garlic.
- Pour over a third of the blended cashew mixture.
- Lay out the remaining potatoes, remaining fried onions and garlic and sprinkle over the herbs.
- Pour over the remaining blended cashew mixture.
- Cover the baking dish with baking paper or tin foil.
- Bake in the oven for 1 hour, or until potatoes are soft enough to gently pierce with a fork and the top is golden brown.
- Keeps covered in the fridge for up to a few days - reheat in the oven until piping hot.
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Notes
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Tan
Can I use a dufferent nut as intolerant to cashews?
Rhian Williams
You can use soaked blanched almonds and add some extra water because almonds will need more water than cashews. Alternatively, I have a very similar recipe here, which doesn't use cashews: https://www.rhiansrecipes.com/vegan-potato-dauphinoise-gratin-gf/ let me know if you have any other questions!
Jane
I just made this and it passed the non vegan eater in the house test! yay, next time I would put in more salt as my onion was quite sweet. Thank you .
Rhian Williams
Yay thank you so much, really happy to hear that! Ah yes must've been the natural sweetness in the cashews and maybe the onions? Thank you for the feedback!
Bryan
Garlicky and cheesy are the only two things I need! These potatoes look amazing! I'll have to make this recipe soon, thank you!
Rhian Williams
Thank you so much, hope you'll like it!
Petya
What could i use instead of ''nutritional yeast'' ?
Rhian Williams
You can leave it out!
Sherryl van den Heuvel
Looks delish!!
How many potatoes do you think in terms of EACH using russet potatoes please?
Rhian Williams
Thank you! I'm sorry I can't give you an accurate quantity as russet potatoes can vary in size depending on the store and what country you live in! So it's best to go by weight!