But she missed her cheesy topping, so she was in Karmavore and bought Parma. When I saw it I told her I could just make it myself! So I invented our own Parma.
Usually I do use walnuts, but I've tried other nuts as well. Although nutritional yeast isn't raw, it meets my standards because it has a lot of nutrients and is close to a whole food. Plus it gives you that cheesy, rich flavour, some B12 and protein (NOT THAT WE VEGANS ARE DEFICIENT).
We make it in bulk because we eat so much...
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Walnut Parmesan "Cheese" (Homemade Parma): makes about 1 1/4 cups
1 cup walnuts (soaked and dehydrated if possible)
1/3 cup nutritional yeast
1 teaspoon salt and pepper, or more to taste
I like to add curry powder or other spicy mixes - woo hoo!
Process walnuts into a rough floury mix, add in other ingredients until you have a crumbled Parmesan cheese texture. Taste it and add other things according to your palate.
I put this stuff on almost all my savoury dishes.