At last, the super-easy recipe for our “Ottimo! Grattugiato”, a plant-based grated Cheese, also known as “gromage.”

In my opinion is one of the best substitution to the ubiquitous grated cheese (such as parmesan or pecorino). Perfect on pasta, soups, or salads, to cream a risotto or a pasta e fagioli, as well on a vegetable bake… It’s a condiment or a seasoning? You pick.

Welcome to our plant-based recipes collection – the fruit of a collaboration between ottimoblog.com and appetibilis.net | Here happily edited and translated by Orsola 😀

Almond is the basic ingredient for our “Ottimo! Grattugiato”, the variations are: if you use peeled ones you’ll have a finer grating effect, with unpeeled almonds the result will be darker (as in whole meal), just as good.

The other key ingredients are: nutritional yeast. It is an inactive yeast that gives the gromage that je-ne-sais-quoi of cheesy flavor 😋 … as well as being rich in B vitamins, essential amino acids and iron). And the unrefined sea salt for the final savoriness.

Recipe for “Ottimo! Grattugiato”

Last but not least, this recipe for “Ottimo! Grattugiato” is so simple, and easy to do, that’ll conquers even the laziest cook: 3 ingredients + 2 steps and, in five minutes, you’re ready to dress up your favorite dish!

[servings: 5 + | total time: 5 min. | difficulty: very very easy]
| Please note that the info and directions provided for the recipes are indicative: the end result may vary from person to person |

Ingredients

• 100 g raw almonds
• 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast flakes
• 1 pinch of unrefined sea salt (fine ground)

Directions

1. Place all ingredients in a high-powered blender.
2. Mix/pulse until a fine meal is achieved. (Be careful: if you overdo it, it will tend to become a paste).

Variations

• You can use one part of raw almonds and one part raw cashews,
• or one part of pumpkin seeds, for a slightly nuttier flavor.

Use it as you see fit, and Buon Appetibilis!

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