Sunday, October 14, 2012

Awesome Vegetarian Recipes We Found And Love!


This weeks post is a little different! I am going to share some really great vegetarian and vegan recipes my husband I have found and love!

A plant-based vegetarian diet is healthier and can prevent diseases. According to the American Dietetic Association, vegetarians have a reduced risk of heart disease, obesity, colon cancer, adult-onset diabetes, osteoporosis, gout, gallstones, kidney stones, lung cancer, and breast cancer. A low fat vegetarian diet, combined with regular exercise, helps reduce blood pressure and can control, or even eliminate, non-insulin dependent diabetes.

1.  Baby Spinach Omelet


1/4 teaspoon onion powder 

1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 

salt and pepper to taste


Directions

1.  In a bowl, beat the eggs, and stir in the baby spinach and Parmesan cheese. Season with onion powder, nutmeg, salt, and pepper.  2. In a small skillet coated with cooking spray over medium heat, cook the egg mixture about 3 minutes, until partially set. Flip with a spatula, and continue cooking 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce heat to low, and continue cooking 2 to 3 minutes, or to desired doneness. Easy enough! And delicious!


2. Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
                                                                                             

Ingredients:



½ lb
Broccoli, chopped (fresh is best; frozen is ok
½
Small-to-medium Onion, chopped, not too finely
1 tsp
Minced Fresh Ginger
3 Tbsp
Peanut Oil, a bit less if using a non-stick pan
Batter, for the seitan:
¼ cup
All-purpose Flour, rice flour, or spelt flour
2 Tbsp
Cornstarch
1 tsp
Egg Replacer, such as energ-g
¼ tsp
Baking Powder
¼ cup
Plain Unsweetened Soy Milk
1 Tbsp
Soy Sauce
For The Sauce:
¼ cup
Soy Sauce
2 Tbsp
Rice Vinegar
3 Tbsp
Vegetable Broth
3 Tbsp
Sugar or 2 1/4 Tbs. Agave Nectar
2 tsp
Cornstarch

Directions:
In a small bowl, whisk together all the sauce ingredients and set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients for the batter together, then whisk in the soy milk and soy sauce.
Tear the seitan into bite-sized pieces, then mix in with the batter.
Heat 2 Tbs. peanut oil in a wok over medium-high heat then add the battered seitan. Fry the seitan, stirring constantly and separating the individual pieces, until it's nice and brown and crispy. This may take 8-10 minutes. Then remove the seitan from the wok and set aside.
Add the remaining 1 Tbs. of oil to the wok, then add the broccoli and onion. Stir-fry for a few minutes. Don’t let the broccoli get too soft; it should still retain its color. Add the ginger and cook for another 30 seconds. Add the sauce and cook for another 3 minutes or so until it thickens. When the sauce is almost thick enough, turn the heat to low and stir in the seitan for about a minute.
Serve over rice, or over soba or udon noodles.

This is my absolute favorite meal! I serve it over some brown rice and the whole family loves it!

I am proud to be a vegetarian and have found that there is a ton of great dishes out there! I have always been a gormet food lover and found that I have not had to sacrifice my love of fine food for a life. I have never physically felt and looked better. I'm not as tired all the time  and body feels so much healthier since I stopped eating meat several years ago.

Hope you enjoy some of the great recipes with your family! See ya next week!

Last week's poll was how many of you use all natural products and who would like to. Majority of readers said they DO use all natural products!


 


11 comments:

  1. Looks yummy! Though I'm a meat eater, I do make a few vegetarian dishes every month... there are lots of recipes like these where you don't even miss the meat!

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    1. Great recipes, thank you for sharing! I love vegetable food a lot, but sometimes experience a lack of nice ideas. now I have some!

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  2. Great vegetarian recipes ;)
    Thank you ;)

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  3. Mm the garbanzo salad looks delicious!

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  4. That salad looks really good. We like using chickpeas to make hummus. I'm a new follower from the Etsy Gems team.

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  5. These all sound good! I've got a couple bricks of tofu in the fridge, and now I know what I'm doing with them!

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  6. What yummy recipes! Thank you!
    So nice to meet you through Etsy’s Blogging Buddies Team.
    I am your newest blog follower! :) #20!

    All the best,
    Mary
    Mixed-Media Map Art

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  7. Great recipes. The spinach omelet looks fab!

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  8. I need to start cooking! Grretings from Magicpots and the facebook treasury team.

    http://zuzannafyall.blogspot.com/

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  9. Food looks so tasty! My boyfriend is a vegan and absolutely loves chickpea salads!

    http://youngmommymemoirs.blogspot.ca/

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  10. The tofu look so good!

    -Sabrina
    http://thelittleowlshop.blogspot.com

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