Bhavna demonstrates an eggless omelette made with tofu, milk, spices, and garbanzo bean flour. For a filling, she uses tomato, onion, spinach and cheese. She points out a thicker batter could be used to make a tofu scramble, while a thinner batter is better for making an omelette. She uses the garbanzo flour as a binder, which helps to stop the omelette from breaking as you turn it, plate it, etc. Plant based milk and cheese can be used the replace the dairy products. This is an easy, healthy, and delicious recipe. Continue reading
Category Archives: Lunch
Greek Omelette by Annie and Dan Shannon
Annie and Dan Shannon demonstrate a vegan Greek omelette recipe from their award winning cookbook, “Betty Goes Vegan”. They replace eggs in a traditional omelette with a blended mixture of silken tofu, spices, and seasonings. They use vegan mozzarello cheese, tomatoes, spinach, basil, oregano and olives for a filling. This is a healthy and delicious recipe for any meal, breakfast, brunch, lunch, or even diner. Continue reading
Crispy Baked Eggplant by Bhavna Patel
Many recipes for eggplant use an egg wash to hold a breadcrumb mixture used to coat the eggplant. They are then fried. In this video, Bhavna shows her approach to coat the eggplant with a mixture of spices, cornstarch, water, and panko breadcrumbs. She does not use eggs in an eggwash. She then bakes the eggplant slices instead of frying them. This very good approach eliminates the animal protein in the eggs, and the fat in the frying oil. You can see her similar approach to bake tofu in this post. This is an excellent technique to create crispy tofu, eggplant, etc. without animal protein and the fat resulting from the frying process. Continue reading
Cilantro Jalapeno Hummus Recipe by Jason Hill
Chef Jason Hill shows how his wife kicks up a hummus recipe by adding cilantro and jalapeno peppers to a typical hummus recipe (examples here and here), which blend garbanzo beans with a mixture of different spices, lemon juice, garlic, tahini and a little olive oil. Hummus is delicious and healthy. Use it as a sandwich spread, in wraps, or as a dip. Combine it with some bread and fresh vegetables and it makes a nice appetizer, lunch or snack. Continue reading
Edamame Fried Rice by Jack Scalfani
Look at all the healthy ingredients in this recipe – edamame, brown rice, kale, broccoli, bell peppers, green onions, ginger, yellow onions, garlic, portobello mushrooms, and teriyaki sauce. He makes an omelette with eggs that he slices into thin strips to use as a garnish after the vegetables and rice recipe is ready to serve. This egg omelette could easily be replaced by a tofu omelette to make this a vegan recipe.
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Vegetarian Chili Recipe by Jason Hill
In this video, Chef Jason Hill shows how to combine several vegetables and beans to make a delicious vegetarian chili. If you’d like the texture of ground meat in your chili, you can easily add vegan soy crumbles that resemble ground meat. Jason tops his chili with sour cream and cheese, for which there are commercial vegan substitutes available in most large supermarkets. This is an easy to make, delicious and healthy chili recipe. Try it. Continue reading
Vegan” Mac and Cheese by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Isa has created a recipe for a creamy, gooey, melty, lucious “cheese” that can be used in a mac and cheese type meal. Her “cheese” recipe could also be used with other recipes such as a portobello or seitan “cheesesteak” sandwich. It’s made with onions, garlic, vegetable broth, cornstarch, tomato paste, nutritional yeast, spices, and cashews. It’s not hard to make. Simply saute the vegetables, combine all the ingredients and blend everything together, then, place it in a pot and cook it until it thickens and resembles melted cheese. Isa mixes this “cheese” with pasta and tops it with roasted brussel sprouts for her version of “mac and cheese”. Continue reading
Grilled Veggie Pasta Salad by Laura Vitale
Grill some fresh vegetables. Chop them up, and mix them with whole wheat penne pasta and a tasty vinaigrette dressing. You will have a vegetable pasta dish that gets more flavorful with time. Eat it soon after it is made, or place it in the refrigerator as a make ahead meal for lunch or dinner later in the week. In this video, Laura shows how easy it is to create this healthy and delicious recipe. Continue reading
Spicy Black Bean Casserole by Karen Bukolt
This casserole is delicious and loaded with healthy ingredients; celery, bell peppers, black beans, cilantro, onions, chili sauce, maple syrup, and spices. Karen mixes panko bread crumbs with cheese as a topping for this casserole. The cheese could easily be a vegan substitute if you desire. You can serve this casserole with tortillas, or brown rice and a salad. It can be made ahead for a lunch or dinner later in the week. Continue reading
Vegetarian Quesadillas (Mushrooms and Black Beans) by Sandy
Here is a video recipe for delicious and easy to make vegetarian quesadillas. They contain healthy ingredients; black beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, jalapeno pepper, garlic and spices. Sandy uses cheddar cheese, which could easily be replaced with a vegan substitute cheese. This is a very easy to make, healthy and delicious recipe. Continue reading