Happy Sticks
Ingredients:
1/2 cup 1/2” diced sweet onion
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 cloves garlic, mashed
1 tsp sea salt
2 cups cashews, soaked in salty water for 6 hours, drained & rinsed
6 tbsp nutritional yeast
1/2 cup filtered water
2 tbsp dill
Instructions:
In the bowl of a food processor, combine onion, lemon juice, garlic and sea salt, combine until minced, scraping down the sides as necessary.
Sweet Onion
Lemon Juice
Smashed Garlic
Sea Salt
Add cashews, nutritional yeast and filtered water.
Soaked Cashews
Nutritional Yeast
Filtered Water
Process for 5 minutes, until smooth & creamy. Add dill. Pulse 5 times to combine.
Chopped Dill
Fill cashew mixture into a pastry bag with star attachment.
Fill Pastry Bag with Star Tip
On a teflax dehydrator sheet, create 3” long cashew “sticks”. They look a bit like cheese sticks.
Happy Sticks Created with a Piping Bag
Happy Sticks on a Teflex Dehydrator Sheet
Dehydrate at 150˚ for 12 hours.
Happy Sticks
15 comments
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Sally
Like grain-free, dairy-free cheese straws. These are BRILLIANT. Going on my to-make list for next month.
April 23, 2013 -
Merry Jo
A couple questions… First, when you say “salty water,” how much salt to how much water? I’m new to the nut-soaking thing… Also, is nutritional yeast the same as “regular” yeast? These sound really good, and I’d love to make them sometime! Thanks! :)
PS I learned about you from Deliciously Organic too. :)June 25, 2013 -
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Tina
Nutritional yeast is not the same as regular bread yeast at all. Here is an article about it. http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2010/01/rediscovering-nutritional-yeast-flakes.html
June 25, 2013
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Molly Chester
Here’s the info you need about soaking nuts: http://www.organicspark.com/portfolio/technique-dehydrated-nuts/ And nutritional yeast is different than baker’s yeast. It is filled with B-vitamins. Typically found in the vitamin section of a health-food store.
July 4, 2013
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Karah
These look amazing! If you don’t have a dehydrator, can you bake them in the oven?
June 25, 2013 -
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Molly Chester
I imagine so, at the lowest temperature.
July 4, 2013
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Michelle
Wow these look amazing! I live in a place that doesn’t have nutritional yeast, though (Iraq). Can I still make the recipe without it?
June 26, 2013 -
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Molly Chester
Might be tough, as they give it the cheesy flavor.
July 4, 2013
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Kathy
Have you tried these with any types of nuts?
March 22, 2014 -
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Molly Chester
I’m thinking it would be tough to do it with a nut other than cashew. Cashews are very creamy, and that is the base that is needed. Let me know if you try something else, though!
March 26, 2014
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Luda
I often like to try something new, and read reviews from people who actually tried the recipe, but its easier to comment first because it looks good.
It does take a while for them to dry in dehydrator, i have 12 trays and i filled two, after running for 6 hours or so i decided to simply stick them in the oven and bake it, it’s a little faster that way, mainly i hate to waist energy for two trays only.
I used 3tbs of nutritional yeast, it was plenty cheesy for me, i can not imagine to add 6tbs, unless there are different types of nutritional yeasts. Overall recipes is ok, because i made it and took a while, i will definitely eat it, i like something new, although the rest of my family did not like it. So for all those people who did comment i recommend to try it =)February 12, 2015
Mom
Man, these are inviting my taste buds to “come & taste”! Sure hope they are on the Thanksgiving Day menu that Dad and I will be part of this Thursday at Apricot Lane Farms. Just being here makes us so grateful.
Jeff
Hi, learned of your site via Delicously Organic. My question, “are the cashews raw or cooked, and if cooked, dry roasted” Thank you, Jeff
Kim
Jeff, I’m not absolutely positive, but since they are soaking the cashews first, I think they are using raw for this recipe.
Molly Chester
They are labeled in the store as “raw cashews”, but realistically, all cashews are cooked b/c they are poisonous raw. Still, I do purchase raw b/c you want a blank slate to start the recipe.