Recipe Round-Up: 1000 Vegan Recipes

Another little mini round up from 1000 Vegan Recipes from Robin Robertson. See the previous posts about this book here.

Savory Beans and Rice: These are savory both in that they are not sweet, but also the contained the dried savory herb. It was not a herb I was familiar with, but I chanced upon it at a deli one day so had to buy it as I knew it showed up in some of my cookbooks. This is a pretty simple dish of brown basmati rice and white beans, mixed with nutritional yeast and savory. I needed to cook for an extra 10 minutes for the rice to cook when I made it on a stove (these days I'd just make it in the rice cooker). Excellent with some extra nutritional yeast, and served over greens.
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Polenta with Spicy Tomato Ragu: This uses the basic polenta recipe in the book as a base, and then tops it with a mushroom and marinara sauce based ragu. It is not super filling, but is very comforting. I had some leftovers of both, so I chilled the polenta into a round, fried it, and topped it with some leftover ragu that I had added some lentils to for a second meal another day.
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Cajun-Style Tofu: Tofu is sliced and seasoned with cajun seasoning, then pan fried. It is topped with a sauce based on tomatoes, celery, green onion, and it should have green capsicum but I just left that out. It has some nice flavours, and is good served over rice with a salad.
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Thai-Phoon Stir-Fry: This is diced tofu, pan fried, in a peanut butter based sauce with mushrooms and spinach. It is very saucy, which I am not complaining about, though the sauce could have used a little bit of lime in it to really make the flavours work best. This would also have been better with some extra vegetables added, I think broccoli and carrot would be great. It is garnished with thai basil, shredded coconut, and peanuts.
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(% 1000 Vegan Recipes blogged: 32.3%)

Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



My sweetest Sahara. Boo reminds me a bit of Sahara just in the way she explores and interacts with the world, though without Sahara's common sense and she is not as snuggly as Sahara was. So I've been thinking about Sahara a lot lately. Not that I ever don't think about her.