I love cheese, and it was my last holdout on the road to going fully vegan.

I recently watched the docuseries “Cheese: A Love Story,” and I wanted to pair it with one of my favorite cheese recipes: poutine.

This vegan, gluten-free take on poutine makes 4 “servings.”

Ingredients
2 cups vegetable broth
0.5 cups 1-to-1 gluten-free flour
1 tablespoon tamari
0.5 teaspoons mustard
1 3.35-ounce packet dehydrated meatless crumbles
1 28-ounce bag frozen fries
8 vegan cheese sticks
4 green onions, chopped

Instructions
Whisk the vegetable broth, flour, tamari and mustard together over medium high heat.

Once they’re evenly mixed, stir in the dehydrated crumbles.

Heat your frozen fries in your air fryer at 400°F for 6 minutes. Flip the fries around and fry them for 6 more minutes.

While they’re frying, prepare your cheese. If you are a lucky Canadian, you might be able to find vegan cheese curds, and you don’t have to do anything to prep your cheese.

I chose vegan snack cheese sticks because they have a squeaky quality similar to cheese curds. If you’re going my cheese route, cut them into half-inch pieces so they’re roughly the same size as cheese curds.

You can also chop your green onions at the same time.

Plate the fries and place the cheese on top.

Pour the gravy over the fries and cheese.

Sprinkle the chopped green onions over the gravy.

Serve and enjoy with an episode of “Cheese: A Love Story” (episode three features poutine).

The Easy Route
Buying a premade vegan, gluten-free brown gravy would make this recipe much easier.

You could also go through a drive thru and pick up some piping hot fries instead of making your own.

Dried chives can be a great substitute for the chopped green onions.

If you have a nearby restaurant that makes vegan, gluten-free poutine, please share those details in the comments!

The Pairing
I love the attitude Afrim Pristine, the host of “Cheese: A Love Story,” has toward lifelong learning, and the series follows him around Europe and Canada as he learns about all things cheesy.

One of the reasons I chose poutine for the pairing is because Afrim, who is a third-generation cheesemonger, is Canadian, just like the recipe. Episode three is in Quebec, and it features cheese curds and poutine, as I mentioned above.

The episodes of this show do not need to be watched in order, so if there’s a particular place where Afrim travels that you’re more interested in, you can start there.

As he is Canadian, three of the episodes highlight cheese cultures in Canada, but he also goes to three European countries to explore the amazing things they do with cheese.

There are only six episodes of the show, which make for a pretty easy watch. I do recommend eating before or while you’re watching the show, as it will definitely make you hungry.

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