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Butter chicken (contains meat)

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Smoky baked beans - vegan, plant based

pre-soak beans for at least 2 hrs & drain

Add 1.5 cups water

Haricot Beans

1-2 T dijon mustard

2 T maple syrup

2T smoky paprika

4T BBQ sauce

1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce

No need for pepper or salt

PC for 20 mn, NPR, check beans are soft & continue to cook to reduce sauce if needed

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Shashuka

In a shallow pan or tagine or in a PC

Saute onion, garlic, peppers or capsicums diced, smoked paprika, salt or vegeta to taste, diced tomatoes, tin beans (optional), dried smoked chilli peppers

Then add 1/2 jar tomato paste & water to make sauce & simmer on low stirring & adding water, or PC 15 mn

You can then make a well for the eggs & drop eggs into it & continue to simmer.

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This one is for the Vegan & Vegetarian community

Chilli sans carne

Made exactly like the meat version in flavours & texture.

I pressure cooked pre soaked red kidney beans & black beans for 15 min in tomato puree & spices, onion & garlic & salt & vegeta stock powder & sugar.

When pressure released naturally I added in about 400g of TVP (pictured right, which is a soy based product looks like cereal, which when cooked has the texture of minced meat), heated with lid off for further 5 minutes.

I made this amount for a 21st Birthday party after serving it blind to an anti-veganer at my teen taco nite. She was absolutely blown away although swore she would never forgive me, but here she is asking me to make it for her 21st. 😬😂

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Plant based & Vegan Sour Dhal

Recipe & method pictured

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Homemade vegan pesto

Big bunch of fresh basil

2T nutritional yeast

4T olive oil (or more add as needed)

4 cloves fresh garlic

Handful of cashews (soaked & drained)

Water to liquify

Put all ingredients in a high speed blender or smoothie machine & blitz, adding water or olive oil to make as lquid as you prefer

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Minestrone Soup Vegan & plant based

I was lucky to have a box of fresh tomatoes

I put them in the PC for 30mn with a huge bUnch of herbs, salt & pepper

NPR

I soaked some white canelini beans meantime & drained

I chopped vegetables in meantime while pressure for soup was reducing

I added beans & vegetables & more fresh herbs & PC again for 20 mn

NPR

Then added some fresh vegan pesto to serve (see pesto recipe)

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Caulliflower & chickpea curry Ideas: burrito bowl, burrito wraps

Fry some onion & garlic in olive oil

Add 1 pkt of Taco or Burrito seasoning mix

1 tin of Drained chickpeas

1 head washed Caulliflower florets

Toss in oil & sice mixture until peas & caulliflower are al dente

Sprinkle with coriander & serve

To PC the chickpeas I soaked 500 g dried chickpeas for 2 hrs & washed & drained. 1 t salt & 2 cups water or enough so you can see water

Put them in an AIO & PC for 5mn

NPR & drain

These can then be frozen & taken out as needed.

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Bao Buns with shredded pork or vegan option sliced tofu

Meat version

Place sliced onions at bottom of pan or slow cooker or PC

Add 1 deboned shoulder of pork (fat removed)

2/3 jar hoi sin sauce

3T Smoked paprika

2T sesame oil

2T chicken powder

1.5 cups water

PC for 45 min or slow cook 6-8 hrs

Shred

Fill pre-made, steamed Bao buns with meat mixture ture & grated salad of your choice..

Carrots, red cabbage, spring onion etc

Top with herbs

Sauce ; hoi sin, garlic, sesame oil, soy or fish sauce to taste

Vegan version

Dry tofu in paper towel

Marinate in 4 T hoi sin, 1T sesame oil, chopied garlic & spring oion for as long as possible, over night is best, turn & coat occasionally

pan fry & then slice in long thin slices

Add to Bao buns as for meat version above

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Stir fry rice noodle Vegan

Heat some oil in a wok

Saute about 1-2T salted dried black beans

2T garlic & ginger

Add chopped Asian greens saute

Add 4T hoi sin or BBQ or sweet chilli sauce works, soy sauce to taste

2-3 T Xiaosing rice wine to loosen

Add fresh noodle & toss carefully from under to over being careful not to break the noodle up

Add bean sprouts

Serve with stir fry brocoli (you can add the bricoli in to start, but I thought it looked prettier served on the edge) & fried shallots

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Pho vegan, or vegetarian

Using a vegetable stock, vegeta or similar make a stock make a broth

Add 2 star anise

1 cinamin stick

Pepper to taste

I used a PC to combine flavours for 10’mn, NPR

Pour over fresh white noodles

Chop Asian fresh herbs (coriander, thai basil, vietnamese mint, mint etc) & place on top

Then sprinkle with white pepper & fried shallots

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Spring vegetable soup- vegan

In a large pot or in this case an AIO

All the veggies you like

Soaked & drained barley

Vegeta stock powder start with 1T, can add more to taste

Water or vegetable stock

Cook in AIO on Pressure for 20 mn NPR

If stove pot, till veggies & barley are soft

Add handfuls of chopped spring onion & you g celery leaf

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Bliss balls

250g dates

150g one other dried fruit (cranberries here)

Handful coconut shredded or seeds or nuts or chia

4T cacao

1-2 T coconut oil

1-2 T maple syrup

Blend in thermie or blender till mushy & sticky

Then roll into balls & roll in coconut shreds & refrigerate

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Stuffed vegetables

You can make these completely vegetarian or vegan, but these were stuffed with mashed potato or ground beef & tomato paste, tye zuchini boat then had goats cheese & the mushrooms grated cheese

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Coconut jelly

Pretty excited about this dessert because its from my childhood, but revisited in a grown up way: Coconut jelly (think dairy free panacotta)

All the ingredients are available here in Australia from Asian food stores

This is made with Agar Agar 1 pkt (a kind of seaweed or plant gelatin)

Xylitol to taste

1 can coconut milk 400ml

Rose water (unsweetened) approx 150ml

Water 450ml

Rose petals for decoration (optional)

Shredded coconut (optional)

Method

In a saucepan warm coconut milk, rosewater & water, stir in the contents of the Agar packet & sweetener. Bring to slow boil to dissolve & thicken, stir with wooden spoon or whisk about 15mn. Try not to boil rapidly it creates bubbles.

I think it’s important to taste & check the sweetness.

Line a heatproof dish with shredded coconut, pour over warm gelatin mixture, allow to cool on bench & refrigerate.

If you have used coconut cream the cream will rise & set at the top, which looks very cool as a two-tone dessert.

Its vegan & vegetarian, keto & low carb and Longevity Paradox !!!

(Its 1kg total weight with 9.5 g carbs)

Next time I am going to do lime & lemongrass

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Curry Vegetable & Yellow Dhal Soup This is more than soup, this is health in a bowl! Take…, Good quality curry powder 1-2T Finely Diced Carrot, tomato, celery, zuchini or any veggies 1.5L water (or as needed) crushed ginger 1T turmeric 1 strand curry leaf tree leaves Himalayan salt or salt equivalent (approx 1/2t) Pepper 150g washed yellow lentils 1 heaped T garlic Add all ingredients to thermomix or soup pot. Cook until vegetables are fully cooked & lentils thicken the soup. Serve on a bed of spinach at bottom of soup bowl & crunchy french sticks on top are optional. Other options: Add 1 whole chilli Add chickpeas Use red lentils Sprinkle fresh coriander

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Vegan Chilli Make exactly as you would for Beef Chilli but 
Using TVP (texturised vegetable protein) instead of minced beef Add 1-2T olive oil in a large pan Saute 1 whole diced onion & 4-5 cloves of garlic 4T cumin powder 4T coriander powder Add 250g-300g TVP Water to cover the TVP 2 oxo cubes or 2 Flat T vegemite 1T other stock seasoning 6T Tomato puree 2 tins red kidney beans Chilli powder is optional (I leave it out so people can add their own jalapeno or saracha) Combine all ingredients & simmer for 30mn-1hr Stirring at intervals & adding more water as needed. You want a consistency that isnt too runny for tacos & also good ontop of nachos