Curry –Easy, Delicious
Ingredients
2 tbsp coconut oil
1 Onion, chopped small or
3 cloves Garlic, minced
Substitue for garlic and onions: 2 tsp Asafoetida, also known as hing
1 Hot Red Chilli, chopped fine (optional)
Thumb sized piece Ginger, minced
3 tsp Sea Salt
2 tsp Ground Turmeric
2 tsp Black Mustard Seeds
2 tsp Ground Coriander
2 tsp Ground Cumin
4 tbs Tomato Puree
2 tbs lemon juice, or apple cider
vinegar
2 cans Chickpeas, drained
1 can Coconut Milk
2 cups water
Method
1. Place a large saucepan over a medium heat and add the oil. When the pan is hot add the onion, garlic, chilli & ginger, cook for 10 minutes – stirring often. If you choose Asafoetida instead of garlic and onions, add this now.
2. Add the all the spices & cook whilst stirring for another 3-4 minutes to let the spices roast & release their aromatics. Throw in the tomato puree and cook for 1 more minute before adding the chickpeas.
3. Add lemon juice, stir
4. Add coconut milk, stir
5. Let gently simmer (almost no bubbles from boiling) for 12 mins.
6. Add water gradually – stopping when you reach consistency you like.
Asian Vegetable Pancakes
Plant Based, Gluten and Grain Free
Serves: 2
4 Medium Sized Pancakes
1/2 cup scallions chopped
1 cup sweet potatioes, matchstick shapes
1 cup zucchini, match stick shapes
1 cup cooked garbanzo beans
1 tsp salt
coconut oil
5 tsp onion powder or 2 tsp hing
5 tsp curry powder
1 tsp psyllium powder
1/4 cup water
Dipping Sauce:
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tsp white or cider vinegar
2 tsp sesame oil
Heat up cast iron or stainless steel skillet on medium heat with about 1 Tbsp of coconut oil.
Combine vegetables into large bowl
In separate bowl, combine garbanzo bean flour and water stirring briskly.
Combine psyllium and 1/4 cup water in sparate small bowl stirring briskly - psyllium will thichen - it should be like thick pancake batter. If it is too thick add some water to thin. Add immediately to the garbanzo bean flour batter and stir batter briskly for 4 mins.
Add psices to batter and stir
Add batter to vegetable mixture and combine.
Spoon mixture onto skillet, making pancakes about the diameter of your hand width. Press mixture down with spatula to make pancakes thin.
Let first side fry on medium low for 15 mins - do not disturb.
Lift sides of pancake up with spatula, drip more coconut oil under pancakes, let fry until cripsy, flip. Make sure pan well oiled with coconut oil.
Vegetable Soup in Thick Stock
Plant Based, Grain and Gluten Free
2 celery stalks
2 carrots
5 green onions
1 potato
1.5 cups of chopped cabbage
4-5 cloves of garlic
1.5 - 2 cups of cooked navy beans
2 bay leaves
2 tbsp of tomato paste
1.5 txp of oregano
1 tsp of thyme
2 rounded tbsp of onion powder or 3/4 tbsp
of hing
1 tbsp of sea salt
1 tsp of ground pepper
1 rounded tbsp of conrstarch
Water - enough to cover vegetables in pan
Cut potatoes and cabbage wedges into chunks, 1 inch in width.
Heat 2 - 3 tbsp of coconut oil in large heavy pot. Add oinions and saute for 3 - 5 minutes.
Add all vegetables,spices, and beans on the above list up to the cornstarch.
Add enough water to cover pluss a little more.
Bring pot to a boil then reduce to medium heat, cover pot, simmer for 20 minutes.
Keep checking to see how much water you might want to add.
After 20 mins, mix 2 rounded tbsp of cornstarch in a cup with 2 tbsp of water, mix thoroughly. Stir into soup mixture and stir mixture for 5 mins, keeping pot on low heat. This will thicken the soup stock.
Creamy Pot Pie
Plant Based, Gluten Free
Pie
1.5 medium leeks
1 cup green peas frozen
1.5 cups chopped asparagus
2 gluten free pie crusts
Creamy Sauce:
Cashews – raw uncooked – 1 cup
3 vegetable bouillon cubes – good quality – health food store- I use Rapunzel not salted
1 cup of So Delicious Coconut Creamer
2 large bay leaves or 3 to 4 small
Two heaping TBSP Earth Balance Coconut Spread
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Saute vegetables except peas until 1/2 done.
• Put all ingredients listed in “Plant Based Sauce” into blender. If too thick and won’t blend, add more coconut milk. This sauce should be extremely thick thicker than pancake mix. Add the coconut milk gradually – you may only need ¾ of a cup.
• Put all vegetables into pie shell, pour sauce over vegetables. Sauce should be so thick that it stays on top (but will melt and sink down into pie when cooked). Take second pie shell, turn upside down and remove from pan, place on top of filled pie shell, and push down on it and rework it to create a top instead of the bottom that it was fashioned to be. Don’t worry if it breaks apart just pinch the pieces back together if they come apart. The doe is moldable. Go around edges with wet fingers and seal the edges, pinching the two pie shells together.
• Bake about 15 mins – until pie shell is crispy and brown on the outside.
• Let stand 15 mins to cool – very important – other wise the sauce will be runny and thin.
Alternative Sauce: 2 cups water; 3 bullion cubes; 3/4 cup almond flour;
1 TBSP Sprouts All Season; 1 TBSP mustard; 5 TBSP vegan butter
- Simmer water, bullion cubes All Season.
- Melt almond flour in 3 TBSP vegan butter - should be thicker than pancake batter - if not add more butter,
- Then add almond flour butter combo into the broth, stir
- Melt 1.5 TBSP flour in 2 TBSP butter - should be thicker than pancake batter, add misture to broth. Broth should be simmering. Stir until thick
Raw Vegan Cashew Cheese
Easy, Gluten Free, Plant Based
1.5 cups of raw cashews
1.5 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp onion powder
1 tsp smoked paprika
2 tsp curry powder
Salt
Black Pepper
1 refrigerated capsule of probiotic (Renew Life, Ulitmate Flora, 30 Billion)
Blend in blender, add water as needed, hopefully no more than 1/2 cup, should be extremely thick
Leave in blender overnight to ferment
Place in glass container and refrigerate overnight.
Slice and serve. Keep in fridge.
Roasted Vegetables
7 small red potatoes – 3 inches wide. If they are wider then use less potatoes
Any combination of the following; 1 zucchini, one small bunch asparagus, 2.5 cup brussel sprouts, 1 yellow summer squash
½ red onion
1 fresh ripe tomato, can substitute small salad tomatoes
1.5 rounded TBSP Italian seasoning
Salt and Pepper
Olive oil
1. Cut potatoes into ¾ inch chunks. Spread onto a cookie sheet. Drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with ¾ TBSP Italian seasoning. Salt and pepper. Preheat oven to 350. Bake potatoes for 20 mins.
2. Cut tomatoes into ½ inch chunks. Vegetables may use any of the following – about 4.5 cups total not including tomatoes, onions or potatoes: Cut zucchini and summer squash into 4 inch long ½ inch wide strips. Cut Brussel sprouts in half. Cut asparagus stem in half – discard the lower half. Place vegetables on cookie sheet. Drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with ¾ TBSP Italian seasoning. Salt and pepper.
3. Place this cookie sheet into the oven on a separate shelf from the potatoes and cook for 15 mins. Potatoes stay in the oven.
4. Now place tomatoes and sliced onions on top of zucchini and squash and cook everything for a remaining 5 mins.
5. Example: If the potatoes go in at 6pm, then the zucchini and squash go in at 6:20 pm. Both the potatoes and the zucchini and squash cook from 6:20 until 6:40. Then the tomatoes and onions are added on top of veggie sheet, and everything cooks for another 5 mins. Nothing is removed from the oven until 6:45pm.
6. Tip: Be sure that the vegetables are spread out and not touching one another. This will allow them to turn a crispy brown.
7. At the end, combine all vegetables onto one cookie sheet and serve immediately.
8. For big crowds, cook double the amount. Cook potatoes on 2 separate cookie sheets for 40 to 45 mins, until brown and crispy. Remove from oven. Then cook remaining veggies on 2 separate cookie sheets for 15 to 20, adding the onions and tomatoes at the last 5 mins.
Crispy Spring Rolls
1 package square egg roll wraps – about 4” x 4”. Nasoya egg rolls will be crispy, crunchy and brown. They contain eggs. You can experiment with egg free, vegan wraps and it is possible to find ones that fry as nicely as Nasoya. Do not use rice wraps.
1 large zucchini - chopped in 3 inch long strips, the diameter of a pencil
2 yellow squash – chopped in 3 inch long strips, the diameter of a pencil.
3 Rounded TBSP ginger
3 Rounded TBSP garlic
1 Lime – scoop out whole lime – juice and flesh out of skin. Mash and cut into tiny pieces.
3 Rounded TBSP Almond Butter
Salt to taste
1) Place large heavy glass serving dish in freezer.
2) Using very large fry pan; sauté ginger and garlic in fry pan.
3) Add zucchini and squash and sauté until tender.
4) Mix in the lime mash and the almond butter.
5) Remove glass dish from freezer. Put contents of fry pan into dish, which will cool the mixture down enough to be handled.
6) Place one wrap on plate with one corner pointing towards you and one away. Place one rounded tsp of mixture in glass dish into an egg roll. You need less than you think. Start rolling the egg roll up at the corner closest to you. Fold left and right edges towards the middle as you roll up the wrap.
7) Place egg roll with exposed corner facing down in frying pan, so that it will seal. Lightly fry each egg roll on both sides and place into serving dish. Egg rolls should be crispy, crunchy and lightly browned.
Exotic Chickpea Chicken Salad
2 cups chickpeas or Quorn vegan chicken pieces
.5 cup EACH of onions, sweet pickles, celery
.75 cup Veganese – vegan mayonnaise
.5 black olives
.5 cup chopped basil
.5 cup petite size frozen peas warmed – optional
5 dried apricots – sliced into very thin slivers
1 tsp tumeric
2 tbsp mustard
2 rounded tbsp onion powder
Salt and pepper
1. If using chickpeas, put them in a bowl and mash them with a potato masher until 1/2 are mashed.
2. If using Quorn veggie chicken, fry until lightly brown; with spatula, cut each piece in half with spatula while frying.
3. Combine all ingredients in large bowl and you are ready to go.
4. Toast a gluten free bread, put Veganese on bread with piece of letuce, put vegan chicken salad on top.
Oriental Vegetables
4 cups vegetables:
Any combination of
Broccoli - cut in thin slivers
Kale - diced
Grean beans - halved
Carrots - cut like quarters
Cabbage- long thin shreds
Quorn Chicken Tenders Vegan- many mainstream grocery stores carry this now. Whole Foods carries. Soy, wheat, gluten, dairy free.
Sauce
1 c seasoned rice vinegar
1 c tamari or soy sauce - LOW SODIUM
3 Tbsp mince garlic
1 Tbsp natural sweetner
1 Tbsp red pepper flakes
.5 c toasted sesame oil
1/4 c minced fresh cilantro
Cut vegetables as directed above - need 4 cups total from the above list.
Saute vegetables in heavy fry pan until 1/2 done. Start with carrots, broccoli, green beans and cook until 1/2 done. Add lighter vegetables - kale, cabbage - and cook until done.
Sauce: Mix all above ingredients together and pour over vegetables.
1 medum smallish butternut squash; if you use bigger squash need to add more of other ingredients too
1 medium onion
4 cloves garlic
2 pears
3 bullion cubes; Rapunzel low sodium best
4 Tbsp thyme
2 tsp nutmeg
1/3 cup pumpkin seeds, sauted until lightly brown.
2 cups of water or more
Salt to taste
Optional: Replace water with So Delicious Coconut mild
Note: many butternut squash soup recipes call for peeling squash while it is raw. This is extremely laborious and totally unnecessary because the soup is blended. Also the skin is nutritious. Also not necessary to peel garlic for same reason.
1. Cut squash lengthwise in half and remove seeds.
2. Place squash into baking dish with the flat open side facing down.
3. Bake 350 for 40 mins or until completely tender.
4. Remove squash from baking dish, slice into 3 inch slices.
5. Place all 3 cubes of bullion into blender; add 2 cups of water into blender. Blend for 2 mins.
6. Peel onion and saute until cooked.
7. Slice pears into 3 inch slices.
8. Place cooked squash into blender with blended bullion, blend for 3 mins, adding more water until you have a thick soupy consistency.
9. Add onion, garlic, pears, thyme, nutmeg into blender. Blend until all ingredients well mixed. May need to add more water. Should be thick. Can replace all or one half of water with So Delicious Coconut creamer.
10. Salt to taste; blend salt after adding.
11. Reheat the blended soup; place in bowl; add 1 to 2 tbsp of pumpkin seeds on top.
Indian Mung Beans
Great for digestive issues
1 Cup mung beans
7 cups water
1 cup carrot diced
2 cups cauliflower, zucchini, squash
(use whatever vegetables you like)
2 Tbsp coconut oil
1 tsp turmeric powder
1.75 Tbsp cumin seeds
1 Tbsp fennel seeds
1 Tbsp fresh grated ginger
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp salt, or salt to taste
1 tsp black pepper
Place mung beans in water in a heavy sauce pan.
Add carrots, turn to a medium or medium low heat and simmer gently for 20 minutes and beans are beginning to get soft.
Add remainder of vegetables, and cook for about 10 more mins.
Stop cooking when you see the mung beans split slightly open. If you cook too long will get mushy.
Seasonings: In heavy fry pan, heat the coconut oil, add all spices and lightly saute for 7 mins. Mix into mung beans and stir thoroughly.
Serve over brown rice or quinoa.
Recipes
New Recipes at Bottom
Juice Recipes
1. 1 big bunch of cilantro; 1 thumb of ginger; 1 lemon;
one apple; 2 celery stalks.
2. 1 carrots, 2 celery stalks, 4 cups of tightly packed baby spinach, 1/2 cucumber, 1 apple, thumb of ginger.
3. 2 medium pink or red grapefruits; 1 bunch of parsley - flat leaf only; one thumb ginger.
Butternut Squash Soup
Pumpkin Cornbread Muffins
1 cup medium-grind cornmeal
1 cup gluten-free, multi-blend flour (almond flour works fine)
1/2 tsp. pink salt
3 tsp. baking powder
2 tbsp psyllium husk powder
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup maple syrup or honey
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup milk of choice – So Delicious Coconut Creamer is best
2 tbsp lemon juice
3 tsp cinnanmon, cardamom or nutmeg
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line muffin pan with liners. Need about 10 wells in muffin pan
2. In medium bowl, combine dry ingredients – except the psyllium
3. In blender, combine wet ingredients. Add psyllium by sprinkling lightly throughout blender and blend.
4. Pour blender contents into bowl of dry ingredients. Mix together.
5. Scoop batter into each muffin well until it has a dome shaped top just below the surface of the muffin pan.6. Cook in oven for 20 to 25 mins until muffins are spongey to the touch. Cool for 10.
Black Eyed Peas in Coconut Lemon Sauce
Easy - 30 mins.
Ingredients:
BLACK EYED PEAS - two options
Option 1: SUPER EASY: 2.5 - 15.8 oz cans of black eyed peas; or
Option 2: 35 oz dry black eyed peas cooked from scratch: Put black eyed peas into pan with about 3 inches of water above the peas. Boil for 1 min. Set aside to soak for one hour. Then simmer in same pot for one hour. Creates a delicious gravy and oh so much better than the canned. Keep adding water if necessary to keep a generous bean gravy in the pot. Better to have too little water and add gradually, then to have too much water.
1 Onion medium diced
1 TBSP lemon juice, or apple cider vinegar
2 TBSP grated ginger
5 cloves of regular size garlic
2 tsp of coriander
1 tsp of turmeric
1 tsp chili powder - optional
3/4 can of Thai Coconut Milk
1 TBSP cilantro
Directions:
1. Put black eyed peas in large pan with the gravy they produced through cooking or some of the liquid from the can. (Optional: If you use canned peas you might want to thicken bean gravy as follows: when peas are cooked take 1/3 of the peas along with ¼ cup of fluids from can, blend in blender until a thick gravy; pour back into pot with rest of peas).
2. Sauté onion in frying pan with olive oil on medium high heat. Once carmelized (onion turns browns at edges), lower heat and add garlic and ginger and sauté 4 more mins.
3. Keep heat low because garlic can easily burn and then looses its taste.
4. Add coriander, turmeric and chili powder and sauté for about 1 more min..
5. Add lemon.
6. Add coconut milk.
7. Taste and you should taste the tang of the lemon and a hint of the ginger. If not add more of each. Do not add too much of either or it will hide the other flavors.
8. Garnish each serving with 1 TBSP of chopped cilantro when you serve it.
Vegan Stew
5 shallots
4 cloves garlic
1 tbsp rosemary
3 fresh bay leaves
1 tsp Vegan Worcestershire sauce
¼ cup fresh parsley
3 tbsp tomato paste
1 16oz can diced tomatoes
3 bullion cubes, vegan and low sodium
½ cup of red lentils
I/3 of medium size butternut squash
1 yellow squash or zucchini
1.5 cups chopped broccoli
salt and pepper to taste
1 tbsp olive oil
Meat replacement:
2.5 cups oyster mushrooms
1 tbsp liquid smoke
2 tsp smoked paprika
2 tbsp coconut aminos (or soy or tamari)
1 tbsp maple syrup
1 tbsp olive oil
1. Dice garlic and shallot. In a large pot, saute garlic and shallots in olive oil
2. Add rosemary, bay leaves, Worcestershire sauce and parsley, and saute everything together – about 5 mins.
3. Add tomato paste, canned tomatoes, vegetable stock and 2 cups of water; simmer 15 mins. This is a stew and is suppose to be thick. Add more water if you think necessary.
4. Peel squash with hand peeler and cut into 3/4 inch cubes. Add red lentils and butternut squash to pot; check fluid levels and add water if necessary; simmer about 15 mins - until red lentils are soft and squash is cooked. Add chopped broccoli 5 mins before this 15 min simmering period is over.
5. Slice squash or zucchini into thin rounds. Add to pot and cook about 7 mins more- until squash is tender.
6. Salt and pepper to taste
Meat Replacement
1. Shred mushrooms, into ¼ inch by 3 inch strips
2. Saute mushrooms in sauce pan in olive oil about 3 mins.
3. Add rest of ingredients and saute until mushrooms cooked.
4. Dish the stew and place mushroom mixture on top.
Eggplant Meatballs
Ingredients
1. Peel eggplant, then cube – ¼ inch in size. Place in large baking dish and bake for 40 mins at 350 degrees. Remove from oven strain in strainer, then on paper towel.
2. Dice the onions and garlic and saute for about 2 to 3 minutes Add salt and black pepper, to taste, and stir together.
3. Add cooked eggplant, garlic, onions, ¼ cup of mozzarella and parsley. Hand mix this mixture.
4. Sprinkle psyllium over mixture and mix again. This should stiffen the mixture and hold it together. Add more psyllium if needed.
5. Form mixture into balls, roll in breadcrumbs, and fry in coconut oil until browned – about 7 to 10 mins on front and back. Strain on paper towel.
Serving suggestion: Warm pasta sauce in pan, add Thai, thin rice noodles. After 3 mins stir and noodles should have cooked in the sauce. Serve immediate or pasta will get mushy. Place serving on plate, put eggplant balls on top of sauce – do not mix in sauce. Add remaining mozzarella cheese on top.
1. Fry long thin cuts of tempeh in coconut oil until browned on both sides about 10 to 15 mins. Set aside. 2. Wash 2 cups of brussels sprouts cut in half; 3. Wash 2 cups of carrots sliced into large thick match stick shapes; 4. Put in a large fry pan, add one quarter cup water, place lid on, cook on medium low for until brussel sprouts and carrots are tender. Poke with fork to test. Sauce: 1. Place one cup water and two bullion cubes - Edward & Sons, garden veggie; low sodium, vegetarian, in pan and bring to simmer, add one cup of tiny sized red lentils; simmer for 15 mins until lentils are somewhat dissolved. Add water to pot while cooking as needed. Lentils should be soupy and gravy like; 2.
1 medium eggplant
1 red onion chopped
3 garlic cloves chopped
2 tbsp psyllium husk powdered
1 cup Miyokos mozzarella cheese, cubed
1 cup gluten free breadcrumbs
Handful chopped flat leaf parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
Coconut oil
Vegetable Mix:
3/4 of one package of plain tempeh
2 cups brussel sprouts
2 cups carrots
Sauce:
1 cup tiny red lentils
2 bullion cubes, low sodium, garden veggie, Edward & Sons
3/4 TBSP apple cider vinegar
Salt to taste
1. Fry long thin cuts of tempeh in coconut oil until browned on both sides about 10 to 15 mins. Set aside.
2. Wash 2 cups of brussel sprouts cut in half;
3. Wash 2 cups of carrots sliced into large thick match stick shapes;
4. Place veggies in a large fry pan, add one quarter cup water, place lid on, cook on medium low until brussel sprouts and carrots are tender - about 10 to 15 mins. Poke with fork to test.
5. Add tempeh to fry pan.
Sauce: Place one cup water, bullion cubes and apple cider vinegar in sauce pan and bring to simmer, add red lentils; simmer for 15 mins until lentils are somewhat dissolved. Add water to pot while cooking as needed. Lentils should be soupy and gravy like; pour gravy over stir fry mixture in fry pan.
Stir Fry in Lentil Gravy
2 Medium Zucchinis
1/2 Cup of Garbanzo Bean Flour
1/2 Medium Onion
1/2 Cup Water
1/4 Tsp of Hing- also known as Asofeotida available on Amazon; or add 1 TBSP minced garlic
3/4 TBSP psyllium; or 1 egg
Salt and pepper
Oil - olive or coconut
1. Grate zucchini with box grater. Place in colander with a bowl underneath. Salt zucchini as though salting to taste. Let sit 15 mins; salt will bleed water out of zucchini and will drop down into bowl.
2. Place garbanzo bean flour in a large separate bowl. Add water and egg (if you are using egg) and whip mixture.
3. Finely dice onion; saute until caramelized. Add onions, and garlic or asofeotida to flour mixture.
4. Add sea salt and pepper to taste to mixture
5. Press zucchini down with wooden spoon onto colander bottom to squeeze out more water.
6. Mix zucchini into flour mixture. If you have not added an egg -this is substitute for egg -take psyllium and lightly sprinkle EVENLY over mixture, psyllium will clump if you don't sprinkle lightly. Stir mixture. When the psyllium mixes with the water in the mixture, it will begin to thicken, binding and holding together the mixture. If you don't notice a difference add 1/8 tsp of psyllium, also sprinkling lightly and evenly. Mixture should be thickness of cookie batter.
7. Place oil into fry pan so it covers the pan and is 2 or 3 millimeters deep. Preheat this oil on a medium low heat.
8. Take large TBSP, fill with batter, drop lump of batter out onto pre-heated oil to create fritter 2.5 inches in diameter. Should lightly sizzle. Cook until brown on one side about (7 mins), then flip. You will have to do two batches. Frys up very easily. Drain on paper towel.
9. Serve with your favorite sauce.
10. Optional: Add other spices that you like to batter; I added cumin.
