Condiments & Flavorings

nutritional yeast

A deactivated yeast often used for its cheesy flavor in plant-based recipes.

Usual recipe measure: Usually measured in g
Recipes using this ingredient: 6 recipes shown

Your kitchen

Do you usually keep this?

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In the kitchen

How it's used

Used as a seasoning in soups, sauces, or sprinkled on popcorn.

Substitutes

Yeast extractPlant-based cheese powder

Pairs well with

Fortified with vitamin B12 in most brands - check the label, since unfortified nutritional yeast provides none.

Try it in the kitchen

Recipes that use nutritional yeast

MealEast Asian

Edamame Nori Breakfast Onigiri Box

A savoury breakfast bento with two cross-wrapped edamame brown-rice onigiri, a salty miso-sesame centre, layered tofu tamagoyaki and chilli cucumber pickle.

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MealAmerican

Avobesan Smash

A fast chickpea-avocado toast made fuller with nutritional yeast, toasted pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, lemon and rocket.

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MealMediterranean

Tuscan Toast Stack

A fuller Mediterranean beans-on-toast breakfast: white beans simmered with tomato, mushrooms, kale, garlic and smoked paprika, finished with nutritional yeast, pumpkin seeds and hemp.

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MealEast Asian

Garlic Bomb Noodles

Glossy garlic-butter glazed soba noodles with crispy tofu, seared king oyster mushroom, edamame and pak choi - a vegan take on the classic garlic noodle.

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MealMediterranean