Sometimes I post recipes for vegan versions of foods that I’ve never eaten the non-vegan versions of. This is not one of those times. Oh boy, do I know my twice baked potatoes. There was a time when I ate them for dinner just about every night. And okay, so they didn’t have bacon, like a traditional twice-baked potato (I was vegetarian at the time), but they were loaded with butter and cheese and sour cream. So dairy-riffic. Anyway, these days I actually sometimes make cheese out of potatoes. And I’ve had the vegan sour cream thing down for a while. And vegan bacon. And yeah, I’ve made vegan butter, but most of the time I’m lazy and buy it at the store. My point: I realized recently that I had everything I needed to veganize twice baked potatoes. This needed to happen. Step 1: bake your potatoes. Just like with regular twice baked potatoes, theres a first baking and a second baking. Since potatoes take a while to bake, you can prep your other ingredients in the meatime. You’ll be whipping up a basic vegan cashew sour cream. Easy! But you’re only going to use half of it as topping. Take that half out of the food processor. The rest gets cheese-ified. Nutritional yeast, vegan butter and hot sauce do the trick. Don’t worry: the hot sauce doesn’t make the mixture very spicy at all, as long as you stick with one that’s not super hot (I used Cholula). It actually makes it taste cheesy. Trust me.
Give the potatoes a few minutes to cool when they come out of the oven, and then scoop out the insides and add them to the food processor with your cashew, nooch-hot sauce mix. Pulse a few times, but keep the mix chunky. Restuff and rebake!
The rest of the cashew sour cream goes on top of the potatoes, along with some coconut bacon and chives. I made a meal of this sucker and it was heavenly.
Tips for Making Awesome Vegan Twice Baked Potatoes
You can bake the potatoes (first baking) up to two days in advance. You can also whip up the cashew sour cream up to two days in advance. Feel free to top your potatoes with some shredded vegan cheese. I didn’t think they needed it though.
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