Orzo w Onion, Mushrooms, Olives & Basil

October 9, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Orzo w Onion, Mushrooms, Olives & Basil
A super quick dinner (especially if you have some plain left over pasta). Serves 1, so just multiply to make more.
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: main
Serves: 1
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You need
  • 1 cup of cooked Orzo
  • 2 large mushrooms
  • ½ medium onion, chopped or sliced
  • a few olives, sliced
  • fresh basil leaves, torn or roughly chopped
  • a few cloves of garlic
  • salt & pepper
  • olive oil
  • vegan grated Parmesan cheese
  • a dash of water
To do
  1. if you don't have cooked Orzo, cook it now
  2. in the meantime, slice your mushrooms and onion, and grate or press the garlic
  3. heat some olive oil in a pan, add the garlic, stir and add the onion & olive slices
  4. cook for a couple of minutes and add the mushrooms
  5. add in just a dash of water, just to help the mushrooms stay moist
  6. drain your pasta, add to the mushrooms
  7. heat through, then add the basil
  8. scoop in bowls and top with Parmesan cheese.

 

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Raw Chocolate w Toasted Seeds & Cherry Brandy soaked Goji Berries

October 3, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Raw Chocolate w Toasted Seeds & Cherry Brandy soaked Goji Berries
Aaah, there is no better chocolate than home made chocolate, so have a go at it! You can make these completely raw by not toasting the seed and soaking the berries in just water or fruit juice.
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: healthy sweets
Serves: 24
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You need
  • 2 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds
  • 3 tbsp sunflower seeds
  • 3 tbsp dessicated coconut (fine)
  • 2 tbsp Goji berries
  • 30ml Cherry brandy
  • 1 heaped cup of coursely grated cacao butter (130gr.)
  • just over ½ cup of raw cacao powder
  • ¼ cup + 1 tbsp of raw agave nectar
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste, or 1 pod (or vanilla essence - from the bean, in alcohol; don't mix water based things in)
To do
  1. soak the Goji berries in the Cherry brandy for about 1 hour
  2. toast pumpkin & sunflower seeds in a skillet first, then add sesame and coconut (as they brown quicker)
  3. put grated cacao butter in a plastic (!) small jug, preferably with a spout
  4. in a small pan, heat water, then keep at low or medium heat and put the jug with cacao butter in the water to let the butter slowly melt (water shouldn't boil)
  5. while the butter is melting, drain the goji berries (keep liquid!) and divide seeds and berries over the wells of your mould
  6. when butter is melted, stir in agave nectar and vanilla paste (I use a mini whisk) and when that's mixed well, add the cacao powder. You don't need to sieve the powder, but it's easier to mix it in in batches
  7. mix in the left over Cherry brandy
  8. almost done! Pour the chocolate in per well, stirring the liquid through the seeds and then topping up. I used a cake tester to stir, but any thin item would do.
  9. place in fridge or freezer and they're ready when they're hard - give it 2 hours in the fridge and check; if you pop one out and it still sticks to the mould, leave them for a bit longer. In the freezer it obviously goes a lot quicker.
  10. pop them out of the mould and voilá.
Notes
* If you have a very flexible mould, it is handy to have a piece of carton or something similar to put your tray on, otherwise transferring it to the fridge may be messy 😉
* Best to keep these in the fridge.
* Cleaning out the chocolate mixture I find easiest by putting steaming hot water with a dash of dishwash liquid in the jug and let it sit for a bit.
* If you have any melted chocolate left over, just pour in another mould and push some nuts or seeds, or raisins - pretty much anything, in the liquid.

 

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Cultured Macadamia & Cashew Cheese w Fresh Herbs & Black Salt

September 29, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Cultured Macadamia & Cashew Cheese w Fresh Herbs & Black Salt
This is a delicious cream cheese, and the great thing is, like with all nut cheeses, that you can tweak flavours exactly as you like. In this recipe, the dill and black salt are fantastic together. It's not complicated at all, but you do need to plan it a little bit. If you don't fancy the taste of black salt, then leave it out and replace with Himalyan rock salt.
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: cheese substitute
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You need
  • 1 cup unsalted macadamia nuts
  • 1 cup raw cashew nuts
  • contents of 3 probiotic capsules
  • ¾ cup filtered water
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh dill
  • 8 leaves mint, chopped finely
  • 1.5 cloves of garlic (rather small)
  • ¾ tsp black salt
  • 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • dried dill and dukkah to roll onto the cheese (I used a sweetish dukkah with rose leaves), or use toasted sesame seeds with any spices you like
To do
  1. soak the nuts overnight
  2. rinse and put them in the blender with the probiotics and water
  3. run till completely smooth
  4. line a sieve with a double cheese cloth, scrape the mixture onto the cloth, fold cloth over the top
  5. place sieve on top of a bowl, and place a weight on top of the cheese as to press the fluids out. (I used first a flat lid, and put a pan with water on top)
  6. when time passes and leaking has stopped, increase weight
  7. let sit for 36 up to 48 hours
  8. then, put the cheese in a bowl and add all other ingredients, or any flavours you like
  9. line a mould or container or bowl with plastic, and press cheese in mould
  10. transfer to fridge for a day to set (overnight is easy)
  11. then roll through the dried herbs & dukkah

 

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Brown Rice w Mushrooms, Spring Onion, Hemp & Avocado

September 26, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Brown Rice w Mushrooms, Spring Onion, Hemp & Avocado
When I cook rice (or steam, actually) I like to cook some extra so it's at hand for a super quick meal the next day. With precooked rice, this meal takes 15 minutes to cook, not more 🙂
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: main
Serves: 1
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You need
  • ¾ cup cooked brown rice - or more if you wish
  • 2 large spring onions, sliced diagonally (looks nice 🙂 )
  • small hand of peanuts
  • 3-4 mushrooms, sliced
  • 2 cloves of garlic, grated or chopped finely
  • large dash of Tamari
  • ½ tsp curry powder
  • ¼ tsp chilli powder
  • ½ tbsp veggie stock powder
  • ½ small avocado, cubed or sliced
  • small hand of hemp seeds
  • oil for cooking
To do
  1. in a skillet, heat the oil, then add spring onion and garlic
  2. stir and add peanuts, stock powder and spices
  3. add mushrooms, and quickly stirfry till mushrooms have absorbed some of the juices
  4. stir through the rice, heat through
  5. scoop on plate or on bowl, top with seeds and avocado and you're done 🙂

 

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Potato & ‘Chicken’ Salad w Pesto Sauce

September 24, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Potato & 'Chicken' Salad w Pesto Sauce
An easy salad to take places. Tweak amounts of ingredients as you fancy 🙂
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: salad
Serves: 3-4
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You need
  • 4 medium potatoes
  • 6 asparagus, cut in pieces
  • ½ large capsicum, chopped
  • ½ apple, chopped
  • ½ medium onion, chopped
  • ⅓ cup aioli
  • 2 tbsp hemp seeds
  • 2 tbsp dairy free pesto
  • 1 small clove garlic, minced
  • 10 chicken style pieces, cut in 2 (I used VegiDeli Chicken Style Pieces)
To do
  1. cook and cube the potato (if you want a cold salad, do this in time so the potatoes can cool off)
  2. chop and cut all veggies
  3. mix the aioli with the pesto and garlic
  4. mix all in and you're done

 

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Lasagna Rolls w Walnuts in Tomato Sauce

September 23, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Lasagna Rolls w Walnuts in Tomato Sauce
Just another - but fun - way of presenting lasagna; roll up the sheets with a filling you like. Mine are never the same 🙂
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: main
Serves: 2-3
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You need
  • 5-6 wholemeal spelt lasagna sheets (or wheat, if you prefer)
  • ½ zucchini, sliced in long pieces
  • ½ large red capsicum, also sliced in long pieces
  • 2 slices of vegan cheese per roll
  • a few spinach leaves per roll
  • 1 small to medium onion, sliced
  • fresh basil leaves, a small bunch (or as much as you like, really)
  • 2 or 3 walnuts per roll, chopped
  • about 2 cups of tomato sauce (to make: chop 10 ripe tomatoes, place in a large pan with a dash of olive oil, and cook till all nice and soft, then blend quickly or look here), with a few cloves of minced garlic stirred through
  • grated vegan cheese to cover (about 1.5 cup, loose)
  • 2 tbsp of vegan mayo/aioli or 1 tbsp of oil to oil the oven dish
  • a good squirt of tofu mayo or aioli for topping
To do
  1. preheat oven to 200C
  2. cook your lasagna sheets in a large pot
  3. while they are cooking, slice the veggies and grate the cheese
  4. when done, rinse the lasagna sheets and one by one, on a plate or any non-sticky surface, place 2 slices of vegan cheese on the end away from you, and on the end close to you arrange the veggies and walnuts
  5. roll up and place in oven dish
  6. when all are done, pour tomato sauce over the top so all rolls are covered, then top with grated cheese
  7. place in oven and bake for 35 minutes
  8. place portions on plates, dress with some aioli and serve 🙂

 

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Artichoke, Mange-Tout & Mushroom on Toast

September 18, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Artichoke, Mange-Tout & Mushroom on Toast
A warm breakfast or lunch ready in 15 minutes, and it's so lovely 🙂 For more people, just multiply ingredients.
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: lunch, light meal
Serves: 1
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You need
  • ⅓ jar of marinated artichokes (about 6 pieces)
  • 3 medium mushrooms, sliced or chopped
  • 4 mange-touts, sliced diagonally
  • ½ tsp truffle oil
  • 1 or 2 cloves of garlic
  • pepper, a good grind
  • salt to taste
  • 2 slices of toast or pan fried bread
  • oil to cook
To do
  1. drain the artichoke
  2. heat oil in a small pan, add the sliced mange-touts and the garlic
  3. stir fry for a minute, then add the mushrooms, salt and pepper
  4. give it a few minutes, stir now and then, take off heat
  5. stir in truffle oil
  6. place on toast
  7. and eat!

 

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Witlof, Pear & Coriander Salad w Orange Tahini Dressing

September 16, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Witlof, Pear & Coriander Salad w Orange Tahini Dressing
A lovely bitter sweet salad - well, witlof isn't that bitter nowadays, just a hint, I'd say, apart from the bottom bit, but that goes wonderfully well with fruit and nuts 🙂
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: salad
Serves: 2
Prep time: 
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You need
  • 1 head of witlof, sliced (don't use the bit at the very bottom, unless you like the bitterness of it)
  • 1 pear, chopped
  • 1 hand of fresh coriander
  • ¼ red onion, sliced or chopped
  • 1 small hand of pecans
For the dressing:
  • about ¼ cup of tahini
  • juice of half an orange
  • zest of ¼ orange (or to taste)
  • 1 tbsp of hemp milk - or another non dairy milk
  • salt & pepper
To do
  1. mix all ingredients for the salad
  2. mix all the dressing ingredients, but only add the milk if you need more fluids
  3. either mix dressing through the salad, or serve with the dressing on top

 

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Cheeze & Dill Potato Bake

September 11, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Cheeze & Dill Potato Bake
It's easy to make a potato bake, even a vegan one. And if you slice the potatoes by hand, layering goes pretty fast (food processors do a great job, but the slices are so thin, you're layering forever) 🙂
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: potatoes, side
Serves: 4
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You need
  • 700 gr potatoes, sliced in 1-2mm slices
  • Dill, preferably fresh
  • salt & pepper
  • 1 tbsp of veggie stock powder
  • garlic powder, plenty (or fresh garlic, I was just lazy)
  • ½ cup plus 2-3 tbsp of hemp milk (or a similarly creamy milk)
  • 1 log of Cheezly cheese (I used Blue Cheese), grated
  • ½ large onion, sliced
  • (gluten free) bread crumbs, enough to cover the top layer liberally
To do
  1. preheat oven to 200C
  2. spray or brush your oven dish with oil
  3. arrange the slices, slightly overlapping, covering the bottom
  4. add slices of onion and grated cheeze
  5. tear dill leafs on top, then a good sprinkle of garlic powder, stock powder, pepper and a little salt
  6. then start again; potatoes, onion, etc...
  7. finish the last layer with cheeze, a generous sprinkle of garlic powder and some salt, and then a layer of bread crumbs
  8. cover with foil, bake for 45 min, check if cooked (should be), then take foil off and bake for another 15 minutes or till nice and brown

 

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Black Bean Chocolate & Mint Mousse w Vanilla Cream

September 9, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Black Bean Chocolate & Mint Mousse w Vanilla Cream
Don't you love it when people are trying to guess the ingredients in a dish and just can't put their finger on it? 😉 Cream made from cashews, mousse made from black beans, raw cacao and raw nectar, it's a lot healthier than the sugar laden, dairy based original chocolate mousse.
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: dessert, snack
Serves: 6
Prep time: 
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You need
  • ½ can of black beans, quickly drained
  • 2.5 tbsp (raw) cacao powder
  • ¼ cup raw agave nectar
  • 5 leaves of mint (or more to taste)
  • ¼ tsp vanilla bean paste
  • a tiny pinch of salt
  • Stevia to sweeten more, optional
For the vanilla cream:
  • ½ cup of Cashew Cream (better if this one is a little thick)
  • 2 tbsp raw coconut or agave nectar
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or natural essence
  • 1 tsp of toasted pine nuts
  • 1 tsp of cocoa nibs (or grated/chopped vegan chocolate)
To do
  1. blend all ingredients for the mousse
  2. to make the vanilla cream; mix the Cashew Cream with the nectar and vanilla
  3. scoop the chocolate mousse in small glasses (or in bigger ones, of course) and layer with vanilla cream
  4. top with cocoa nibs and the pinenuts
  5. and you're done!
Notes
This makes 6 liqueur glasses, just double amounts for more.

 

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