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Vegan Green Bean Casserole with homemade Cambpell's cream of mushrooms and topped with homemade french fried onions (whole food plant-based)
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Vegan Green Bean Casserole

Vegan Green Bean Casserole - This recipe for a Green Bean Casserole is a classic in American cuisine for Thanksgiving or Christmas.  Prepare the casserole with cream of mushroom and fried onions. You do not need many ingredients for this high quality casserole and you can prepare it in advance.
Course Vegan Sides
Cuisine American
Keyword cambell's, casserole, christmas, cream of mushrooms, green bean, green bean casserole, thankgsiving, vegan, vegetarian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 4 -6
Author Jasmin Hackmann

Ingredients

For the French fried onions:

  • 1 cup 240 ml plant drink (soy or almond)
  • 2 tablespoons of tahini
  • 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
  • 1 small onion strips
  • ½ cup 60g whole spelt or wheat flour
  • ¼ cup 40g bread crumbs
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
  • ¼ tsp. Pepper grounded
  • Pinch of cayenne pepper

For the mushroom cream sauce:

  • 1 medium onion in cubes
  • 2 garlic cloves pressed
  • 1 packet 150g -200g of mushrooms, sliced
  • ½ cup 120 ml of dry white wine or 2 tablespoon Balsamic White
  • 1 tablespoon tapioca starch
  • ½ cup 60 g of cashews, soaked
  • 1 ¾ cup 420 ml of water
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce or coconut aminos gf
  • 2 tablespoon of nutritional yeast
  • Pepper to taste

Casserole:

  • 5 cups or 1 lbs 500 g of green beans
  • French fried onion
  • Mushroom sauce

Instructions

  • First, we prepare the fried onions, so we cut onion into fine strips or rings.  Mix the remaining ingredients into a dough and add the onion. Heat the oven to 175 C and place the onions on a baking tray lined with baking paper.  Now bake the onions for about 7 minutes, then repeatedly check to see if they gain the right color. If they are a nice brown color but not too dark, they are finished. 
  • In the meantime you can cut mushrooms, onions and beans. Steam the cut beans for 3 minutes to help preserve the color.
  • Now fry the onions, garlic and mushrooms in a pan vigorously.  I always add a sip of water. I repeat that when the onions start sticking to the pot.
  • Now take the soaked cashews and blend them with water, tapioca starch and nutritional yeast flakes.
  • If the onions have a nice brown color, you can deglaze them with some white wine.
  • Add the cashew cream and season with soy sauce (coconut mints), salt and pepper. Let it boil.*
  • Now you can put the green beans in a casserole dish and pour the sauce over them.
  • You can distribute the finished fried onion over it.  And bake in the preheated oven at 175 C for about 15 - 20min.

Notes

If the sauce is till too runny, you can add some more tapioca starch or let it cook some more until it is thicker. You can also blend the mushroom sauce to have cream of mushroom instead one with mushroom pieces.