Level Up Your Nachos: The BEST Vegan Nacho Cheese Sauce!

Vegan Nacho Sauce
Full of flavour…this nacho sauce, though not the same as dairy nacho sauce, but is delicious with tortilla chips or drizzled on a plate of nachos.
Ingredients:
2 med (red or white) potatoes peeled, approximately 2 cups
¾ cup peeled carrots
1/4 cup neutral oil like canola or safflower or sunflower
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 cup nutritional yeast
½ tsp garlic minced
1 ½ tsp onion powder
⅛ - ¼ tsp cayenne powder and/or chipotle powder
2 tsp tapioca starch
1 - 1 ½ tsp salt (start off with 1 tsp and then taste and adjust)
1 tbsp melted vegan butter
½ of a medium jalapeno, finely chopped and set aside
Instructions:
Chop potatoes and carrots. Boil and cook potatoes and carrots in a pot.
While potatoes and carrots are cooking, chop jalapeno finely and set aside.
To a blender, add potato, carrots, vegetable oil, water, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, minced garlic, onion powder, cayenne/chipotle, tapioca starch, 1 tsp salt and melted vegan butter. Blend until smooth.
Pour into a serving bowl.
Stir in jalapeno and serve.
Note: To use as a cheese-like sauce, omit jalapeno and cayenne or chipotle. You could add ¼ tsp of mustard powder, if you like.
Enjoy!