nutritional yeast (thing)

Nutritional yeast is a great cooking ingredient for vegetarians. It can be used to emulate cheese and meat flavors in your recipes.

Straight nutritional yeast has a nutty, cheezy flavor. I do lots of things with it:

• Dredge tofu through it and then pan fry it.
• Add it to a vegetarian gravy.
• Use it to make a "cheese" sauce.
• Add to TVP to give it more body.
• Sprinkle it on things like you would grated cheese.

Mind you, I eat real cheese, so I only do this when I'm not into the fat of cheese (I won't eat that plastic, fat-free cheese crap.)