Fried tofu

I’ve got the idea for this recipe from this blog ‘Natuurlijk veganistisch’.  She has an english blog too, Happy Veganarian, but I couldn’t find the recipe for tofu filet on it.

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1 block tofu
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp passata
1 tsp 5-spices
breadcrumbs
rice flour
nutritional yeast flakes
paprika powder

1. Slice your tofu in 3
2. Mix the soy sauce, passata and spice herbs.
3. Marinate the tofu slices in the mixture.
4. Mix the remaining ingredients
5. Coat the marinated tofu with the crumb-flour mixture.
6. Bake the tofu delicious crispy in a frying pan.

Again you can find a nice lay-outed downloadable pfd file overhere.

Of  course you can play around with this recipe as much as you like.  There are probably 1 000 different combinations of spicing it up.  Let me here about yours!

 

Creamy bulgur and marinated red beets

I had the idea for this recipe from ‘Vegetarisch koken in 30 minuten’.  Normally it was a carpaccio recipe, but I ended up changing it totally:

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1 cup bulgur
2 red beets
2 tbsp nut vinegar
2 tbsp canola oil
2 tbsp soy cream
2 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
2 tbsp chopped walnuts
vegetable broth

1. Peel the red beets and cut into thin slices.
2. Heat the sliced beets in the microwave for 3 minutes.
3. Let them cool and mix with the vinegar and oil.
4. Meanwhile boil the bulgur in the vegetable broth.
5. Mix the bulgur with the soya cream and nutritional yeast flakes.
6. Serve the bulgur with marinated red beets and chopped walnuts..

You can serve the bulgur in a lettuce leaf and garnish with the marinated red beets
and shopped walnuts.
Or you can mix everything together.

Extra tip: add some fresh shives to the bulgur

 

You can download the recipe om my new website.

A little word about this website: it’s not a real website yet.  It’s more excercise material.  But it comes in very helpful as a way for offering my recipes for free download.

 

Speculaas scones with raisins

Around this time of the year in Belgium, you’ll find speculaas all over the shops. For people who don’t know what speculaas is: it’s a kind of cookie which contains spices. You can read more about it here.

For these scones I used the ‘raisin and spices scones‘ recipe from Vegan brunch and substituted all the spices with speculaas spices.

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Jerk seitan

I must confess, I was intrigued by this name when I saw it for the first time in  ‘Vegan with a vengeance’.  I have no idea where the name comes from, but I know this is one great way for serving seitan.  The recipe says you can easy play around with it.  So I did, but of course I forgot to write it down.  I only remember I didn’t have lime juice and swapped it for vinegar and the maple syrup for apple syrup.

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Anyway I served it with mashed savoy-potatoes.  This gives a nice green colour which is very beautiful with the red and brown of the jerk seitan.

Oven roasted fennel and roots

It’s the time of the year that root vegetables start to show up. You can use the following recipe for any kind of root vegetable:

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• 5 carrots
• 1 parsnip
• 2 fennels
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp soy-sauce
• 1 tbsp apple syrup
• 2 tbsp ketchup
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp paprikpowder
• 1 tsp thyme

1. Chop the vegetables in pieces and put them in an ovendish
2. Mix all the other ingredients. 
3. Pour this over your vegetables.
4. Place in a oven (200°C).  After 15 min.  Stir the vegetables and keep it in your oven for 15 min. more.