Why eat an actual chicken? This easy-to-make seitan has bite and flavour. Slice thickly and braise in some stock or gravy and eat as ‘medallions’, slice thinly and stuff in a sandwich, or cube and use in a stir-fry. Ingredients Wet mixture 250 ml (1 cup) vegetable or vegan ‘chicken’ stock 70 g (1/2 cup)Continue reading “Chicken-Style Seitan”
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Chickun Seasoning
Nothing to do with actual chickens, of course. A spice mix you can use in my chicken-style seitan, or to marinate shop-bought vegan ‘chicken’ bits or mushrooms with. Ingredients 1 heaped tbsp mild curry powder 2 tsp sweet paprika 2 tsp thyme 1 tsp ground mace 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp ground coriander 1Continue reading “Chickun Seasoning”
Jean’s Pasta Salad
Bring this pasta salad to the family barbecue, and if it’s all you can eat there, you’re still not missing out.With lots of thanks to my friend Jean for giving me the recipe, which I’ve only slightly adapted. Ingredients For the salad500 g whole-wheat pasta, cooked till al dente, rinsed with cold water until stoneContinue reading “Jean’s Pasta Salad”
Fully Loaded Fries (or a Homage to ‘Kimchi Karbdashian’)
This is my version of the loaded fries I ate at Vegan Heroes, a vegan fast food restaurant that I sincerely hope will survive the Corona crisis. Treat this recipe as a blueprint and add or leave out whatever you like. Serves 2 (double, triple, etc, as needed) Ingredients For the sauce:115 g plant yoghurt2Continue reading “Fully Loaded Fries (or a Homage to ‘Kimchi Karbdashian’)”
Pizza, Vegan of Few Words-Style
It’s great that pizza places have vegan options these days, but you can’t beat homemade pizza, imo. Also, making pizza yourself is dirt cheap. Ingredients – 1 quantity of my pizza dough (for two large pizzas) – 1 quantity of my super easy tomato sauce – Any vegan toppings you like. I, perhaps controversially, likeContinue reading “Pizza, Vegan of Few Words-Style”
My Super Easy Tomato Sauce
It can barely be called a recipe, but it does make a quick and delicious tomato sauce. Use it on pizza, with pasta, or wherever you need a marinara-type sauce. Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 3 cloves of garlic, finely grated (preferred) or finely chopped 400 g tin of (organic) chopped tomatoes 1 tbsp driedContinue reading “My Super Easy Tomato Sauce”
My Pizza Dough
You need a pizza dough recipe in your repertoire. This dough is healthy(ish), versatile and easy to make. Ingredients 175 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting 175 g wholemeal flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp fast-action yeast 250 ml tepid water 1 tbsp olive oil + 1 tbsp for greasing bowl Preparation I useContinue reading “My Pizza Dough”
Seitan Meatballs
Seitan is great, but the stuff you can buy ready-made looks like chunks of E.T. floating in formaldehyde. So make these balls instead. Wet ingredients 75 g cannelini beans from a tin 250 ml vegan vegetable stock 2 tbsp soy sauce Dry ingredients 155 g gluten flour/vital wheat gluten 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tspContinue reading “Seitan Meatballs”
Basic Baked Tofu
This method will take the blandness off your tofu, yet make it just neutral enough to use in pretty much every dish you want to add tofu to. It also gives tofu a great, chewy texture. Ingredients 450 g of firm/extra firm tofu (I use Singh Tahoe brand), sliced into three slabs lengthwise 1/1.5 tbspContinue reading “Basic Baked Tofu”
Chocolate and Walnut Banana Bread
When life hands you close-to-black bananas (or when you clearly haven’t been eating your fruit), make banana bread. Wet ingredients 3 overripe bananas 1 tsp vanilla essence 75 ml flavourless oil (I use rice bran oil) 60 g almond butter 60 g coconut sugar 3 tbsp plant milk Dry ingredients 110 g plain flour 90Continue reading “Chocolate and Walnut Banana Bread”
