BFF Lime Cashew Garlic Sauce

Recently we’ve been experimenting in the kitchen with cashews, and they can do so much more than we ever realized. Soaking cashews gives them a whole new texture, and there is so much you can make with creamy soaked cashews from garlic sauce, to cashew milk, to cashew yogurt. This is the first of our cashew recipes, but if the rest of our experiments go well it certainly won’t be the last!

This garlic sauce is made from simple ingredients you may already have in the kitchen. All it takes is lime, cashews, garlic, some water, and whatever herbs you have laying around to whip up an amazing flavour addition to your next meal.

There are so many herb combinations that go well with garlic sauce! This makes our lime cashew garlic sauce versatile enough to be used for several different meals – all you have to do is blend a different herb in each time for an exciting new combination!

Ingredients:

• ½ cup unsalted cashews, soaked in water
• ⅓ cup water, to start
• 2 cloves garlic (or 1 big clove)
• ½ lime, juiced
• 2 tbsp fresh herbs (see below for tips on herb selection)*

Such simple and fun ingredients!

Directions:

1. Soak cashews in water for a minimum of 3 hours. Usually we leave the cashews to soak in the morning and then make the sauce around dinner.
2. Chop up herbs and garlic.
3. Drain cashews, and combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth, adding extra water to reach desired consistency if necessary.

*HERB TIPS: Rosemary lime cashew garlic sauce tastes great when drizzling garlic sauce over potatoes or sweet potatoes. Cilantro lime cashew garlic sauce is yummy drizzled over a quinoa bowl or with black beans and corn. Parsley lime cashew garlic sauce goes well with chickpeas and white kidney beans. Dill lime cashew garlic sauce is delicious drizzled over baked fish.

Let us know what your favourite herb and garlic combination is in the comments!

Mmmm, we love drizzling our garlic sauce over a balanced tempeh bowl.

Nutrition* (for ⅕ of recipe): 70 calories, 4.9 g fat (0.8 g saturated, 0.8 g polyunsaturated, 2.8 g monounsaturated, 0 g trans), 0 mg cholesterol, 2.5 mg sodium, 18.3 mg potassium, 4.4 g carbs, 0.6 g fibre, 0.9 g sugars, 2.2 g protein, 0.4% vitamin A, 3.9% vitamin C, 1.1% calcium, 4.4% iron. *calculated using fresh rosemary.