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Welcome back. Today, I am turning nuts and vegetables into a vegan queso dip and it's going to be delicious
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This recipe is super quick and easy, so it is perfect for all you lazy home chefs
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Yeah, you. I see you. As usual, if you want to follow along, I will put a link to the recipe in the description below
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Okay, so the first thing that we need to do is soften up our vegetables so that they will blend up nice and creamy
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So I'm going to take half a cup of diced butternut squash
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You can use fresh if you want, but I'm going to use frozen because it's quick and easy
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I don't have to cut anything. And I'm going to take a quarter cup of carrots
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These carrots have been peeled and cut into tiny little pieces. And I'm just going to put those together in a pot and boil them for five minutes
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While my vegetables are cooking over on the stove, I'm going to take a cup of pre-soaked cashews and one cup of water and blend it up into a nice cream
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Your cashews can be soaked either for two hours or you can boil them for ten minutes
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Unless you have a high-powered blender, in which case you don't need to soak them at all
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Now that that's nice and creamy, I'm going to add my vegetables and one and a half tablespoons of tomato paste and blend it up again
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Now I'm going to add my seasonings. We need a quarter cup of nutritional yeast, half a tablespoon of salt, half a teaspoon of black pepper, a teaspoon of onion powder, a teaspoon of garlic powder, and half a teaspoon of mustard powder
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And just give it a few pulses to mix it up and then we're going to put it back in the saucepan
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At this point it's basically done, so if you want to give it a little taste and adjust any seasonings that you might want, go ahead and do that
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Otherwise, we're just going to transfer it back to our saucepan. So you can warm it up just like this if you want a smooth, creamy dip, but I like to add some chunky veggies to mine
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So I'm adding half a cup of diced tomato, half a cup of corn kernels
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These are frozen, but they will warm up when we warm the dip
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And a finely diced jalapeno pepper. Then you're going to turn the heat on low and keep stirring until the dip is warm
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Be careful that you don't use too much heat because the cashews can burn
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And that's it. Easy. I got my chips and... Well, that's it guys and girls
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