Vegan Gluten Free Eggplant Strata with Cashew Cheez
This Vegan Gluten Free Eggplant Strata with Cashew Cheez is an original recipe by Colleen at My Vegan Gluten-Free Life. I wrote this as a guest post for Family, Fitness,Freedom.
I have been gluten-free for a year and dairy free (except for the occasional fall off the wagon) for almost 5 years! Sometimes I really crave a dish that is gooey and cheesy. I love Eggplant Parmesan but my body cannot tolerate the dairy. I haven’t seen Vegan Gluten Free Eggplant Parmesan in restaurants. So I decided to come up with a spicy, gooey and cheesy dish that my family would love! I made this last week for my husband and he said “you’ve got a keeper here, you should share this recipe with your online friends”. So here ya go my online friends…I hope you love it as much as we do.
Vegan Gluten Free Eggplant Strata with Cashew Cheez
A GF and vegan main dish that the whole family will love!
Servings: 10 servings
Calories: 156kcal
Ingredients
- Cashew Cheez
- 1 1/2 cup spring water
- 3/4 cup cashews unsalted
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 Tbs Nutritional Yeast Flakes
- 1 Tbs organic Gluten-Free Tamari
- 1 Tbs vegan chicken seasoning Bill's Best Chick' Nish
- Juice from 1/2 small lime
- 1/3 of orange chopped
- Strata:
- 2 medium eggplants organic
- 2 sweet onions chopped in half circles
- 28 onz Fire Roasted Tomatoes totally drained
- 26 onz Maranara Sauce Organic
- 1 Tbs Basil dried
- 1 Tbs Rosemary dried
- 1 Tbs Thyme dried
- 8 - 7 inch round soft corn Tortillas
- 3/4 cup hand crushed hard corn Tortillas
- 2 cups gluten-free seasoned coating mix by Hodgson Mill
- 1 8 onz bag of Daiya Mozzarella shreds
Instructions
- PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:
- Cashew Cheez:
- Put all the ingredients listed above for the Cashew Cheez into a high-powered blender and blend until very smooth.
- Transfer mixture into kettle on the stove top and heat on medium until the mixture thickens, then set aside until ready to use.
- Strata:
- A) Cut the eggplant into 1 inch sections and fry on both sides in a small amount of safflower oil until the eggplant becomes moist, then place eggplant into large bowl with gluten-free seasoned coating mix and coat both sides with mix then re-fry eggplant sections until crisped in safflower oil.
- B) Heat oven to 360 degrees. I used a 15x10 inch glass baking dish.
- Grease the inside of the baking dish with safflower oil.
- Place about 2/3 cup marinara sauce over bottom of the greased pan.
- Place soft corn tortillas on top of the sauce, two tortillas on top of each other.
- Place breaded, fried eggplant on the corn tortillas.
- Spread Thyme, Rosemary and Basil on top of the eggplant.
- Sprinkle mozzarella Daiya Mozzarella Cheese over the eggplant & spices.
- Place half circles of onion on top of the Daiya Mozzarella Cheese.
- Place drained tomatoes on top of the onions.
- Spread the thickened cashew cheese over the veggie strata
- Place hand crushed hard corn chips over the veggie strata and cashew cheez.
- Top everything with the rest of the Marinara Sauce and sprinkle with dried basil.
- Cover with foil and bake 1 hour and 30 minutes at 360 degrees
- Serve with a salad
Notes
Nutritional values are based on one serving
Nutrition
Calories: 156kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 5g | Sodium: 863mg | Potassium: 637mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 740IU | Vitamin C: 17.4mg | Calcium: 74mg | Iron: 2.7mg
I hope you enjoy this Vegan Gluten Free Eggplant Strata with Cashew Cheez!
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Is there a good cheese substitute for someone who can’t eat cashews?
I love Violife. I don’t think they use cashews.
I love eggplant and this is such a great new way for me to fix it. Thank you so much for sharing
This Vegan Gluten Free Eggplant Strata with Cashew Cheez looks incedible! I’m definitely going to make this soon. I’ve ever had cashew cheez before but I’m sure I’ll love it.
Wow, this looks delicious and very interesting that one can make a cheese out of cashews. I’ve never heard that. Since I’ve been dairy free I have thought, that’s it no more cheese in my dishes but this is great, I’m going to try this. Thanks for sharing.
I just tried cashew cheese recently at a restaurant, and I was shocked how much I loved it. This looks like the perfect recipe to try some more at home.
Cashews o versatile. I use it as a vegan ranch dressing. Amazing
This recipe sounds really good and with gardening season here I can’t wait to try it.
I have never heard of cashew cheez, but now I’m intrigued….I’m def going to have to look into it. I’m always looking for healthier versions of my family’s favorites. We’re just barely getting into non-gmo, organic, and grass fed beeft etc….thanks for sharing Colleen!
This sounds absolutely divine. I can’t wait to try it! Cheese is one of the things I miss most. If I could pick one thing from my allergies to not be allergic to, it would be cow’s milk.
Oh I hear ya Parenting Furkids! Dairy has been the hardest for me to give up!
Daiya is so far the only dairy cheese substitute I like….other than making my own sauce from cashews!
I don’t see the pics but this does sound delicious and reminds me, I have not have eggplant in the longest time. I am overdue, thanks for sharing!
I just love eggplant Sandra..have any recipes to share?
AND OMG where did the photos go???? I will try to find them and repost!! Aaahhh.
I think they are on my old computer…boohoo I will have to find them!
The thought of this is making me drool. I’ve GOT to try the cashew cheese especially for exchange in other things!
Thanks! that cashew cheese is a fabulous replacement for dairy when you use any type of cheese that will be gooey in a casserole or dish
Is so yummy.
I used to be a vegan a long time ago. The pics won’t load but I bet it is TDF.
very interesting sounding meal that looks delish! are those ingrediants hard to find??
eric rivera, No they are not hard to find. Any natural food section should have them
That sounds pretty good. I haven’t had egg plant in quite a while. I’ll try this out. Thanks.
Although I amnot a vegan I love to try new recipes and the Cashew Cheez part of this recipe is something completely different for me.
Eggplant is my all time favorite vegetable, and apparently one of the healthiest. I can’t wait to try this
OMG!! That looks sooooo good! I haven’t had eggplant in a while, I am going to have to get some.
Oh no you didn’t!!! This is melting in my mouth as I post. I just love eggplant. YUM!
this looks great! Thanks
I love Eggplant!
I think this recipe looks delish however I think it is way above my cooking abilities. Thank you for sharing
I love eggplant, can’t wait to try this recipe!
i have never had eggplant but may i say that looks delish
I have never eaten eggplant, I have bought it thinking I would but I didn’t. This does look good.
I love eggplant, thank you for sharing.
This looks so tasty for a main dish; thanks for sharing recipe.
Yum, perfect for company.
This looks good. I need more eggplant recipes
this looks absolutely delicious! I love eggplant!
Ive never been a huge fan of eggplant, but this looks pretty good!
Woow that are great recipes …
I usually won’t touch anything that isn’t meat. This looks pretty good.
I have to tell my grandmother about this recipe! She’ll love it! Thanks!
This looks amazing! I recently feel in love with making cashew cheese and I am glad I found it in another recipe! Thank you!
I’m looking forward to making this recipe! Looks delicious.
Thank you for the recipe this looks so good.
Mmmmm!!! That looks sooooo good! Will certainly try this!
I love eggplants so I definitely have to try this. Thanks.
This eggplant strata looks so good. I would have to leave anything from the cashew family out and just use the other ingredients. Thank you for sharing this awesome recipe.
Thanks Rich! This is soooo yummy!
This looks great and like something you would get in a fancy restaurant!