Recipe Directions

  • Directions to make this raw sour cream recipe:
  • 1. If you are wise and patient, soak your cashews first and then rinse them before blending. If you are impatient and have a high-speed blender, just throw dry cashews in your blender.
  • 2. Add all ingredients, including cashews, into your blender.
  • 3. Blend until smooth.
  • 4. Transfer to a bowl and then chill in fridge for at least 2 hours.
  • 5. Enjoy on raw vegan tacos or as a dip!

The Rawtarian's Thoughts

By The Rawtarian

Raw sour cream recipe - Yet another simple cashew-based recipe that whips up quickly in the blender and will tingle your taste-buds!

Big thanks to Ashlyn for sending this recipe my way. It's totally my style (simple, quick and delicious) and a great excuse to make this raw vegan taco meat recipe, which I hadn't had for ages.  Because to me tacos and sour cream go hand in hand, don't you think!

This is super quick to prepare. Best made in a high-speed blender, of course.

What is your favorite way to use raw sour cream at home?

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Nutrition Facts

Nutritional score: 83 out of 100
  • This recipe is very low in Calories, Carbohydrates, and Sodium.
  • This recipe is low in Fat.
  • This recipe is a noteworthy source of Protein, and Iron.

Amounts per 53 g (2 oz) suggested serving

NameAmount% Daily
Calories 128 5 %
Protein 4 g 7 %
Fat 10 g 12 %
Carbohydrates 8 g 2 %
Dietary Fiber 0.82 g 3 %
Sugars 1.6 g
Calcium 11 mg 1 %
Iron 1.5 mg 12 %
Sodium 197 mg 9 %
Source: The Rawtarian, USDA

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Hi Judith, haven't posted up a free recipe for hummus yet. Should do, though!   Glad you are liking the sour cream!

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Raw Sour Cream, YEEEEEH!!!!, awesome for my salads. Love it. I think I put i little more lemon than I should of, but I love this recipe. Very easy. Do you have any recipe for hummus? If you do, I can't find it. Thanks, thanks, thanks.

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I made this for a vegan friend of mine I'm vegetarian and we had a mexican lunch it was soooo good! Definitely a make again thanks!

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I. Cannot. Stop. Eating. It. Real sour cream is nothing compared to this living food "sour cream". I thank God I've found this recipe everytime I taste it. I've made this with raw cashews and roasted cashews before. I prefer raw cashew nuts but when I can't afford it, I will use roasted and it still tastes so gooood!

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Mini chili taco. I also added 1/2 chopped onion and 1/2 chopped avocado. Yum!

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Bibi!!! Yummy :) :) :)

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I totally failed at this one ? I finally bought cashews but the store only had roasted unsalted. I hope I can still make all the recipes with cashews! You think it will mess up the flavor in recipes?

With this one, I didn’t soak them and don’t have a super expensive blender. It would only pulse once before needing to be pushed down... over and over... never getting blended.

My blender CAN get things really creamy. I’m thinking it was too little of an amount. If I make a larger batch it may work... scared to waste though ?

Soooo if you don’t have a VitaMix or similar I’d def soak and make a bigger batch

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Bummer - it's true that roasted cashews have a stronger flavor... So not ideal for any of my recipes, sadly! I'd save those to munch on as snacks and try to get unroasted/unsalted - unroasted is definitely necessary to get the creamy texture and blank flavor :) xoxox

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bibia's Review

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Great recipe, once again! Mine came out tasting more like onion dip than sour cream, which is fine, still very yummie. Next time I'll add in a little garlic and use it as a veggie dip. Lura-Jane, you never cease to amaze me! I've trained myself to be seated before tasting any of your recipes o avoid fainting from so much goodness. Ay!!! ?

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This sour cream with the raw taco salad is amazing. ? Even the meat eating husband preferred this to the beef I used to make for him. Both him and my two year old couldn't get enough. Thank you for having recipes that I can make for the entire family so I'm not having to make multiple meals!

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Aww, you are so nice Samantha. Kudos to you for making the recipes!! I'm so glad your husband and 2 year old enjoyed :)

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I can't believe how yummy this is. I have tried to cut out all dairy except my homemade kefir. I love sour cream so giving that up was hard but this definitely makes up for it. I am now looking for something to make so I can put this on !!! Thanks for the recipe. I really enjoy reading your recipes and am excited to try some.

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Hi Shea!!

Ooooh, something to put the sour cream on???? Let me STRONGLY RECOMMEND my taco filling!! :)
https://www.therawtarian.com/raw-taco-meat-recipe

You can use it in normal tacos, on a Mexicanish salad, etc etc. Soo good. Especially combined with good stuff like lettuce, fresh corn, fresh tomatoes, cilantro etc etc. Yah!

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Hello. I've been a fully raw vegan for 34 days now. I've been wanting to make raw sour cream for weeks, but I thought it was going to be too hard. It totally wasn't! This was so easy, quick, AND completely delicious! I love it. Thank you so much for sharing <3

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I'm so glad you tried it, Jordasche! And liked it!!! :)

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This is unbelievably awesome! I added 1/4 teaspoon of salt (instead of 1/2) and 1/2 teaspoon of salt (instead of 3/4) to get just a little bit more subtle taste. And this stuff rocks, really!

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So glad you enjoyed it E! What did you eat it with?

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Noel's Review

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The best sour cream ever! It's smooth when the cashews are soaked for a bit (I soaked for only an hour and the consistency was marvelous.)
My favorite lunch is raw vegan tacos and this was the missing piece that put it all together! Thank you so much!

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Awesome, Noel! I'm glad you found your 'missing' link, lol.

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can i substitute the cashews for peanuts or macadamia.
Tks

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Hi Ivette! no sorry, only cashews/pine nuts/macadamia nuts would work for this recipe. (they are the creamiest nuts)

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amazing!

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:)

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If left overnight in the fridge this sour cream tastes exactly like French Onion Dip! I am in heaven, thank you!

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Enjoy, Brooke! :)

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This tastes like the real thing so sinful lol!

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Sinful in such delicious sort of way! :)

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I just made tacos with your "taco meat" and this sour cream and salsa. Amazing! I am in awe. Just superb, thank you so so much!!

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