Vegan Jambalaya Mac & Cheese recipe | Chef Joya’s makes the best Soul Food
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Barilla Penne Pasta
My Golden Chick Seasoning
Vegan butter
Tapioca Starch
AP Flour
Vitalite Mozzarella and Cheddar
Chobani Oat Milk
Tomato Paste
Sugar
Marsala Wine
Nutritional yeast
Field roast chipotle sausage
Beyond meat spicy sausage
Vegan Worcestershire
Tabasco hot sauce
Mahmazing Cajun Seasoning
Red & Green Bell Pepper
Onions
Vegan chicken bouillon
Salt
Pepper
Onion powder
Garlic powder
Smoke Paprika
They eat it up like say what it’s vegan so yeah
guys it’s your girl Chef Joya and welcome back To my channel say what is vegan this is a special
episode Another in the meantime in between times Until we start filming all my regular episodes but
today I have something super special for you all I Know mac and cheese have you all in a Chokehold
I truly do not understand it so today I’m gonna Put two recipes into one we’re gonna make a
jambalaya mac and cheese yes I said a jambalaya Mac and cheese that’s completely vegan so let’s
go ahead and get started so to get started with This recipe I have some oil some olive oil to be
exactly and heated in the pan now don’t let your Pan get this hot this is not normal okay guys
this is not normal um but you want to put some Oil in a pan and you’re gonna go ahead and add
in your vegan meat substitutes so I’m using two Kinds of vegan sausages I am using the fill Rose
spicy Mexican Chipotle and I’m using the Beyond Sausage the hot Italian now I like using both
of those when anytime I’m making like a Cajun Recipe because both of those flavors together is
absolutely delicious this video is not sponsored I just actually care about how good you all cook
because sometimes y’all know those recipes come Out on the internet and y’all do mmm good and
you know it ain’t right so I want to make sure That y’all using the best product to make sure
you have the best recipes okay so I’m gonna take Some Worcestershire sauce and make sure that
it’s vegan Golden Chick seasoning if you don’t Have my Golden Chick make sure you go to Chef
joyassnest.com to get you some it is absolutely Delicious and it’s usually used for like chickeny
recipes but it has a lot of herbs in it and since We are doing a jambalaya mac and cheese we want
to make sure we get all those different herbs in There so I’m going to go ahead and actually
sprinkle some of this good old seasoning So we’re gonna remove our meat
substitutes from the pan and you Can leave some of those oil drippers
in there because it’s more flavor okay If you ain’t looking for flavor this recipe is not
for you all right I don’t want to hear nothing in My time oh Chef that’s too much seasoning listen
it ain’t never too much seasoning all right So I’m going ahead and scoop that out all right so
I’m gonna add a little bit more oil to the pan and Then I’m going to go ahead and saute my veggies
and I’m just going to do a really quick saute on These this is just some bell pepper green and red
with some onion and garlic so I’m gonna give this A quick little saute we have our veggies out of
the pan we’re getting ready to get to some of you All’s favorite part and that is making the mac and
cheese and we’re going to start off with making Our room we’re going to use add my vegan butter
and yes I use a lot of vegan butter the more Butter the better then we’re going to go ahead
and add in some tapioca starch or tapioca flour Next I’m going to go ahead and add in some
all-purpose flour now if y’all have my cookbook It’s so amazing you can actually use that recipe
to go ahead and make the roux base for this mac And cheese now y’all know it’s time for Elena The
Whisper come out like if y’all still clowning me
On this y’all can’t cause y’all know this right
here is what this is the secret to me having the Best Mac and Cheese because my whisks look like
this this thing has been rocking with me forever Okay so don’t ever come for my whisk all right
because I know some of y’all like to but with Elena the whiska be doing the thing all right
now we’re gonna go ahead and start adding our Seasonings to this mac and cheese so first we’re
gonna go ahead and use my amazing Cajun seasoning If you do not know honey you have not been to
The Nest chef joyousnest.com we’re going to Use this amazing Cajun seasoning we’re gonna add
it to it so when you think of them amazing Cajun It replaces anything like you know Tony stack
trees and like Old Bay I don’t need nothing Can truly replace them but this can okay I can
so we’re gonna go ahead and add that to our pot Then next we’re gonna go ahead and add a little
bit of Tabasco sauce then we’re going to add a Little bit of Worcestershire vegan Worcestershire
for those like we should say a sausage is a vegan I forget to have to explain that like every video
especially in the comments because somebody wants To be smart they be real not smart in there
all right next I’m going to go ahead and add Some Dijon mustard and that looked like that was
enough and add in a little bit of salt and yes My Cajun seasoning does have salt in it but
I just like to add kosher salt to the recipe Anyways because it helps bring out that flavor
and now we’re going to go ahead and add some black Pepper I’m very heavy-handed with black pepper
and mac and cheese it’s just something I think That absolutely needs to go and it has to go Okay
add in our a little bit of Marsala cooking wine Yes now this is something y’all probably have not
seen me do but for this recipe it is absolutely Delicious like even if we do like a vegan lobster
mac and cheese use a masala or a sherry wine and I promise you it’s going to elevate your recipe
about 10 levels so for extra creaminess we’re Going to add in some vegan sour cream now if you
don’t have vegan sour cream you can use vegan Cream cheese and if you don’t have neither go to
the stove don’t skip it okay you thought I was Gonna say go without take a tail to the stove now
we’re gonna use vegan’s favorite ingredient that They don’t know how to use and that is nutritional
yeast so we’re going to add a little bit that was Such that was so much shade we’re gonna add a
little bit of nutritional yeast to it not too Much that may look like a lot but it’s really not
you don’t ever want to use too much nutritional Yeast I find that still happening a lot and I’m
going to say that on every video I pretty much Be using nutritional yeast in because too much
ruins the recipe okay I don’t know what it is that People do or why they do it but please stop doing
that all right next we’re going to add a little Bit of sugar we don’t want sweet mac and cheese
all right and now we’re going to add in a little Bit of garlic powder now this is technically
optional I should have tasted it before I did It but my ancestors told me to go ahead and add
the garlic powder so I’m going to do that and I’m Going to go ahead and add the onion powder while
I’m it at this point I want to taste the sauce for
My Mac and Cheese even though it’s not completely
done I want to make sure that the base is perfect Before I start adding the extra ingredients
in it to make it a jambalaya mac and cheese I need more salt hold on uh no ma’am we’re
gonna have some more sauce it is hold on Just a little bit all right y’all so I’m adding a
little bit more salt to it because it definitely Needed some more but I still need to be conscious
because I’m still adding My Vegan meat substitute Which has been heavily seasoned and my veggies
so I don’t want to do too much sauce all right But that needed some salt I was like where’s
the salt the season is fire but I could not Find a salt at all all right so the next thing
we’re going to go ahead and do is add in our Vegan cheese now today I am using vitalite
cheese boom boom you see that you see that I’ve never used this brand before but I’m going
to use it today so y’all let’s pray that this Is going to be absolutely amazing I did taste it
without it being cooked and it was delicious so I have a lot of faith in this okay so we’re
gonna go ahead and add in our vegan cheese And this is the vegan cheddar that I’m adding to
it for vitalite and because this is a jambalaya Pasta we’re going to go ahead and add a
little bit of tomato paste now listen y’all Before anybody come for me don’t you dare ever
in your regular life put Tomatoes or tomato Paste in your Mac and Cheese I am literally only
doing this because I am making a jambalaya pasta Mac and cheese all right and I added pasta in
there because if I just said what I said but Do not use tomatoes in your Mac and Cheese the
day after never only if you’re making a recipe Like this okay we got it we got it okay cool
I’m gonna add in our vegan meat substitute Next we’re gonna go ahead and
add in our veggies all right So I’m gonna go ahead and use some vegan chicken
Booyah I am using a better than bouillon and yes It says vegetarian but it is completely 100 vegan
and you can use whatever type of bouillon you Want you can use a vegetable bouillon but if you
have a vegan chicken bouillon go ahead and use That okay well this is nice and thick and creamy
and gooey in UWI y’all don’t take it there don’t Don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t get your mind
out the gutter get your mind out the gutter All right so I got my baking dish and we’re
gonna go ahead and spray it with some Pam And y’all listen we’re not about to have the Pam
fighters in here use whatever nonstick spray you Choose to use okay you can do that next I’m
going to go ahead and add in my penne pasta Most Boxed Pasta guys is already vegan um when
you look at the ingredients you’ll see like uh Semolina during wheat flour you’ll see things
like that a lot of them don’t have eggs in it But some of them do but you so you still want to
always read your labels now if you choose to use Chickpea pasta and lentil pasta and all that
type of stuff you can do what you want to do I’m using it but you can use whatever it is that
you want to use whenever you cook your pasta you Want to make sure you cook it in a lot of flavor
you can use my Golden Chick seasoning or just
A heavy sauce but whatever you do you never
want to cook your pasta in just plain water So we’re gonna go ahead and add in our sauce
so we’re gonna pour our jambalaya cheese sauce Gonna be amazing like the flavors are
already there so the texture is about To be on point and this is flooded
add our vegan mozzarella [Applause] You know we’re gonna use this whole thing How about this let’s just pour a whole bag
on here all right so we’re gonna go ahead And spread out our vegan mozzarella and we’re
gonna top that off because cheese need love too We need some of that seasoning love so I have
my oven preheated to 425 I’m going to go ahead And cover this actually sprayed it with Pam
because I didn’t want any of this cheese to Bubble Up and stick to the pan so I’m going to
put it in the oven on 425 for about 35 minutes Until I see my cheese start to melt because
vegan cheese does milk TS Madison it does melt So we’re going to make sure that melts and then
we’re going to take it off for the last 15 minutes So it can Brown up and get a nice golden color
so we’ll be back wow that thing is bubbling it is Breaking it down all the way down I’m gonna have
to let this cool for about 15 minutes before I Dig into this usually I can do the not today not
on this so I’ll be trying this out in about 10 To 15 minutes and let y’all know exactly what
I think about my new jambalaya mac and cheese All right it’s time to dig in look I can’t
even wait the full 15 minutes I’m ready to go Scoop into this scoopity dude Scooby-Doo like the
longer you let it sit oh look at that look at that The longer you let it sit the thicker it get
the more it can gel together but this right here Oh baby yes oh my God oh my God yes
oh look at oh my gosh it smells like Everything everything let’s go ahead and
try it oh my gosh look at this cheese sauce It’s a sausage make sure I get a little piece
of chicken in there look at a little bell pepper Still blowing the thing is hot it’s real hot Um Period Can’t nobody tell me nothing you can’t
tell me that this ain’t gonna be the Best Mac and Cheese you ever had vegan
or not you’re going to love this baby Yes rightfully so they called me the queen of
vegan mac and cheese baby because I am and is Will always be like who thinks to do this Joya
and it’s perfect yo I cannot wait for you all To try this out hold on because I’m gonna
say the end of this video but I gotta get Another bite because this is delicious this will
make no sense I cannot wait for you all to try This recipe out it is going to blow your mind if
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