My Vegan 3 Course Meal (Vegan Recipes)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Vegan Recipes
Date:	30/04/09 (257 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very tasty

Disadvantages: None

My cousin has been a vegan for a few years now after deciding to become vegan after being a vetetarian for years and years. We have family meals once a week and at first it became increasingly hard to cook for her as we were so worried that we'd give her a food product she shouldn't have! My review is based on a three course vegan meal and even us meat eaters are quite partial to tuck in!

Starter:-

Broad Bean Pate

Ingredients

half a bag of broad beans (handful of pods)
3 cloves of garlic
drizzle of olive oil
salt and pepper
sprig of thyme, chopped

Instructions

1) Remove the broad beans from their pods and boil them with the garlic cloves for about 15 minutes. Drain and cool.
2) When the beans are cool enough to handle, remove the outer skin of each bean to reveal the brighter green 'inner bean'!
3) Blend the beans and garlic with a hand blender and add the salt, pepper and thyme.
4) Spread on crackers or bread.

Main Meal:-


Ingredients

1 onion
1 carrot
100g (4 oz) breadcrumbs
1 tin of kidney beans
1 tin of cannellini beans
1 tsp chilli powder or 2 chopped chillies
Salt and pepper
Mixed herbs
2 tbsp flour
Vegetable oil for frying

Instructions

1) Put 50g (2 oz) (half) of the breadcrumbs in a large mixing bowl.
2) Finely chop the onion and grate the carrot.
3) Fry the onion gently in a tbsp of oil until softened. Add the grated carrot and fry for another 2 or 3 minutes, then add the onions and carrot to the breadcrumbs in the mixing bowl.
3) Rinse the kidney and cannellini beans thoroughly and drain. Mash them roughly with a fork and stir into the carrot mixture with the chillies, salt and pepper.
4) Put the remaining 50g (2 oz) of breadcrumbs in a shallow bowl with the flour, herbs, salt and pepper.
5) Shape the bean mixture into 6 burgers. Thoroughly coat each burger in the flour and breadcrumb mixture.
6) Heat 3tbs oil in a frying pan, and carefully add 3 burgers. Fry each side for about 5 minutes until golden brown. Repeat with the other 3 burgers.

Dessert:-

Treacle Tart

Ingredients

150g (6 oz) self raising flour
Large pinch of salt
75g (3 oz) vegetable margarine
About 2 tbsp cold water
375g (12 oz) golden syrup
110g (4 oz) white breadcrumbs
1 large lemon

Instructions

1) Rub the margarine into the flour and salt until the mixture resembles 'breadcrumbs'.
2) Add the water and blend it in with a palette knife.
3) Press the mixture together tightly with your hands and roll it out on a floured board.
4) Use pastry to line a 20cm (8") pie tin. Cover with cling film and put it in the fridge.
5) Roll out the pastry trimmings. If you have quite a lot left, cut 8 strips of pastry about 1 1/2cm wide. 4 of them should be almost 20cm long. The other 4 can be about 15cm long. If there isn't enough pastry to do this, cut out some stars or other shapes using cookie cutters.
6) Put the syrup and breadcrumbs into a saucepan.
7) Grate the zest from the lemon, then cut it in half and squeeze out the juice. Put the zest and juice with the syrup and breadcrumbs.
8) Warm the breadcrumb mixture over a very low heat until the breadcrumbs have absorbed some of the moisture and swollen up.
9) Take the pastry case out of the fridge and pour in the breadcrumb mixture. Make a lattice on the top of the tart using the pastry strips, or decorate with pastry shapes.
10) Bake in the oven for about 35 minutes at 190ºC/375ºF. Good with custard.

That menu goes down really well! The majority of my family are meat eaters but as I said above even they try the dishes and end up liking them!!

All ingredients can be easily obtained from most supermarkets.

Enjoy!

Summary: Tuck in!