This creamy Vegan Queso Dip can be yours in less than 10 minutes! Can you believe it? We love it served as a dip with tortilla chips or you can pour it nacho-style over chips or over your favorite bean burritos. Quick, creamy, and versatile too. What more could you ask for!
I have been a fan of the dip ever since I was young enough to say it.
I don’t know when a word like “dip” first falls from a toddler’s mouth, but I have a theory. Most of us start with sounds like “dada” and everyone thinks we’re calling out to our dads. Sure, that’s what the men in the world want us to believe. But I know better!
I think these little tikes are actually trying to say the word “dip” but it just comes out funny. That’s just how strong our desire to take a triangular piece of fried cornmeal and dip it into creamy sauce is.
It’s biological, people. We can’t argue with that!
Did I tell you that making this Vegan Queso Dip is super easy? Well, it is. In right around 10 minutes, you can have this delicious, creamy sauce ready for dipping. Of course, you can pour it too — as in pouring it over some nachos, or bean enchiladas, or burritos…should I go on?
It’s really as simple as spooning the vegan cream cheese into a bowl, add the green chili enchilada sauce, some nutritional yeast flakes, and garlic powder and then heat that up in a microwave for a few seconds.
Then you stir it all together and voila! Vegan Queso Dip! I love serving this dip with tortilla chips, but you can also pour it over your black bean enchiladas. It’s SO good!
Do you love vegan Mexican food? Be sure and check out my super easy and oh-so-delicious Vegan Enchiladas! Or, how about my vegan 7-Layer Dip? It’s SO good that I took it to a party once and this guy questioned whether I could it or not. He was convinced there was no way it could be vegan. I assured him it was…because I made it! There’s also my Baked Vegan Nachos. And for a super healthy treat, try my plant-based Vegan Nacho Cheese Sauce.
What I Love About This Vegan Queso Dip
Look, I love healthy food just as much as any other vegan. It’s one of the main reasons I’m vegan – because I love feeling SO good! And I eat lots of healthy veggies, beans, super foods, you name it. I just also happen to like having some quick, convenient, and über tasty comfort food too. This Vegan Queso Dip is a new addition to my tasty comfort food list.
When my daughter tried it, she said it tasted just like the Queso Sauce at a local mexican restaurant. [Insert a pleased grin on her mother’s face here.]
So, here’s a confession. Another thing I love just about as much as healthy food, is making dishes that make other people happy. When someone takes a bite of some food I’ve prepared and they say, “This is vegan?” And they follow it up with, “If I could eat food that tasted this good I’d definitely be a vegan.”
Well, that’s like my version of an academy award. I close my eyes and for a brief second imagine myself going up to accept my award in front of a cheering crowd. “I’d like to thank everyone who tasted and loved that Vegan Queso Dip as much as we did. It was a labor of love. Sure, it was only 10 minutes, but, well, you know, it was heartfelt.”
And speaking of 10 minutes, I love that I can have this ready so quickly. If at the last minute we decide to invite some friends to come over and play ping pong on the weekend, I can have this dip ready to go, displayed nicely on the kitchen counter, and still have the energy for some fearsome ping pong doubles. If you haven’t played doubles ping pong, you don’t know what you’re missing.
You know what would make me happier than a hobbit eating second breakfast? If you would make this recipe and share a photo of it using #NamelyMarly via Instagram or Twitter. It’d make my day!
Vegan Queso Dip
Ingredients
- 8 oz package Tofutti Vegan Cream Cheese or dairy-free cream cheese of your choice
- 10 oz can of Old El Paso Mild Green Chile Enchilada Sauce
- 3 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Scoop the vegan cream cheese into a microwave save bowl and microwave for about 11 seconds. Remove and stir and repeat until the sauce is smooth and stirs easily.
- Pour the green chile enchilada sauce over the melted cream cheese. Stir to combine.
- Add the nutritional yeast flakes and garlic powder. Stir until everything is combined. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve with tortilla chips as a dip or pour over chips (for nachos).
There are so many inspirational Queso Dips out there I’d love to share with you. Here are a few:
- Ali’s Two Ingredient Queso Dip on Gimme Some Oven — looks so good!
- There’s also the White Chili Bean Queso Dip Recipe on Tidy Mom which I’m raring to veganize!
- How about this Spicy Southwest Queso Dip on I Wash You Dry? I’m always ready for some spicy!
- You might also like to try this Velvet Vegan Cheese Sauce by yours truly, if you’d like to veganize some queso dip recipe you have on hand.
Whatever recipe you’re inspired by, I hope you truly enjoy!!
oh how I love a good queso dip!!!!
Thanks, Cheryl! I think we must be soul sisters or sumtin’ like that!
I love when people say ‘this is vegan?’ too! I’ve come to think it’s just one step in the direction of showing people that vegan food is delicious too!!
It’s so true – it’s really fun how surprised people can be to see how delicious vegan food can be!
Wowie, ma’am! This looks delicious! I think maybe “dip” *was* one of my first words. =)
See? I knew it!! All I can say is bring on the dip!
I can’t wait to try this! I’ve been staying away from dairy for the past 6 months or so and cheese dip is the one thing i miss the most. This looks so easy, too!
I hope you love it as much as we do! I’m gonna be making some more this weekend!
I made this last night for a get together with some friends and everyone loved it. You would never know it was vegan. I’m doing a 21 day cleanse where I am only eating whole foods and no alcohol. This is going in my “keeper recipes”.
Wow! This looks amazing; I can’t wait to try it. I’m only sorry it took me two weeks to discover this post!
I made this today and it was delish!
Awesome, Quen! So glad you liked it. 🙂
Thank you so much for this recipe! I made it for a party at a friend’s house, and it was a hit. All the people there were vegan, and one is gluten-free, so it was so great to come across this very easy and quick recipe!. Since a 15-ounce can of Hatch enchilada sauce was what I had on hand, I used that and added a little vegan sour cream to the cream cheese mixture to make up for the fact that there was a little more sauce. All my friends want the recipe, so I will send it to them. 🙂
Thanks, Nancy! I’m so glad you and your friends enjoyed the recipe! I think it’s important to have a go-to recipe that’s easy to take to parties. It makes the party fun! ❤️