In our article we will talk about vegan recipes. To begin with, what exactly is veganism? This is a very strict form of vegetarianism, in which it is absolutely impossible to eat not only meat and fish, but also all those products that are of animal origin, such as cottage cheese, eggs, milk, all seafood of animal origin, etc.
Vegans can afford to eat only everything vegetable - fruits and vegetables.
Next, consider the simplest vegan recipes. Let's get acquainted with the vegetable cuisine.
Vegan dishes
Vegan recipes are naturally very simple. This is due to the use of only plant components. Therefore, they are lean.
Vegan recipes, in fact, can be attributed to the most strict diet dishes . Lactic acid products and eggs cannot be used even for baking, not to mention salads, first and second courses. It would certainly be difficult for an ordinary person to eat such food. As a rule, with purely vegetable ingredients, the food is low-calorie.
Vegan green salad
Considering vegan recipes, here are a few examples of typical dishes.
For a green salad, take:
- Canned peas - ½ banks.
- Avocado.
- Canned Cucumbers - 4 pcs.
- One fresh cucumber.
- A few twigs of arugula and parsley.
- Salt.
- Freshly ground pepper.
- Pomegranate sauce.
A feature of this salad is that all the ingredients in it are green. Cut fresh and pickled cucumbers, add peas, avocados and chopped arugula and parsley to them. All components are well mixed. You can pepper, salt and season with pomegranate sauce. If you do not have it, then use freshly squeezed lemon juice and olive oil. You can sprinkle sesame seeds on top of the finished dish as a decoration.
Jam cookies
All vegan recipes are simple, and the products for cooking are taken ordinary. We want to bring to your attention a recipe for making spicy vegan cookies. It is baked in the form of tubes based on dough with spices.
For the test you will need:
- Wheat flour - 430 g.
- Peeled rye flour - 130 g. In the absence of rye flour, use only wheat.
- Sugar - 120 g. With this amount of sugar, cookies will not be sweet, so you can put more if you wish.
- Soda - 1.5 tsp
- Citric acid - 0.5 tsp
- Vegetable oil.
Spices for cooking: ginger (a tablespoon), cinnamon (a tablespoon), cardamom (a tablespoon), star anise (one star), cloves (five pieces).
For the filling, you can take any jam or jam.
Flour should be mixed with soda, spices, sugar and citric acid. All spices must first be crushed in a mortar or grind in a mill. Mix all the ingredients in a dry form, and then add the oil. Then add water and knead the dough. In finished form, it should not stick to your hands. If it still sticks, then add a little more flour. Then we divide the dough into three equal parts, each of which we roll out into a circle. Then the cake must be cut into pieces, like a cake, in the form of slices. For each piece of dough (to the wider part) we put jam or jam, and then roll it in the form of a tube. The resulting cookies are laid out on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, and sent to the oven for 20-25 minutes at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees.
Oven baked cabbage with pumpkin
Getting acquainted with vegan cuisine, we are considering the simplest vegan recipes. These include baked cabbage with pumpkin in the oven.
For cooking, we will get these products:
- Pumpkin - 630 g.
- Zucchini (zucchini) - 380 g.
- Cauliflower - 1.3 kg.
- Pepper.
- Salt.
- Paprika.
- Thyme.
- Vegetable oil - 2-3 tablespoons.
- Chickpea - 230 g
Chickpeas must be prepared in advance. To do this, they soak it all night. In the morning they are washed and put on the stove. Boil it for at least half an hour.
We wash the cauliflower and disassemble it into separate parts. Cut the pumpkin into cubes. But zucchini can be cut directly with the peel.
Mix all the vegetables and chickpeas. Add spices and salt. Top watered with vegetable oil. All this is baked in the oven for about forty minutes. The finished dish can be sprinkled with herbs and peeled pumpkin seeds.
Vegan recipes: advantages and disadvantages
We have reviewed the preparation of vegan dishes. You probably managed to notice that they use a lot of spices. This is due primarily to the fact that there are completely no components familiar to us. Spices help to compensate for some taste flaws, giving a good aroma.
Vegan recipes with photos in our article clearly demonstrate a simple grocery set of adherents of such a cuisine. There is not a single hint of products familiar to us in them. Even in salads, meat, fish, eggs, mayonnaise, sour cream are completely excluded. Baking is done without eggs, for us it is unusual. Of course, such food based on fresh vegetables and fruits is very healthy, rich in fiber and vitamins. But still it is monotonous. Trace elements contained in meat, fish and dairy products are unlikely to be fully compensated for by something. Although vegan recipes can be adopted in case there is a need to go on a diet. Here they will be just a find due to their low calorie content.