If any of you are familiar with the restaurant True Food Kitchen, you may know they make a sauce for their Brussels sprouts called umami sauce. Umami is one of the 5 flavors identified by our tastebuds; salty, bitter, sweet, sour, and savory or umami. Their sauce is AMAZING! Unfortunately, as is the case with most restaurant food, it’s loaded with fattening oil. I found the recipe online but tweaked it to significantly reduce the fat and cut the oil. If you can find oil-free hummus, this would be considered an oil-free dish. The hummus I had on hand did contain a small amount of oil.
I roasted a mixture of Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, onions and white beans (pictured) to serve with the sauce, but you could use this sauce with any vegetable, bean, grain or even as a salad dressing. Enjoy!
- 1/2 cup nutritional yeast
- 1/4 cup hummus
- 6 TBS vegetable broth
- 1.5-2 TBS tamari or other low-sodium, gluten-free soy sauce
- 4 large cloves garlic
- 2 TBS apple cider vinegar
- water to thin if desired
- Combine all ingredients in blender, adding water to thin if desired.
