Hello vegans! Today I have three incredible recipes for mouthwatering delicacies that I would like to share with you. Each delicacy is easy to prepare. Each recipe is easy to follow and entails ingredients that are readily available at your favorite meal delivery service. If you are ready for that, let’s get right to it:
1. Vegan Chili
Vegan chilli contains plenty of ingredients, most of which are vegetables, and offers a mouthwatering taste and flavour. This delicacy goes well with jacket potatoes or rice for a delicious and filling vegan dinner. Plus, it’s quite easy to make with 15-minute prep time and 45-minute cook time. Below is a recipe for vegan chilli for four individuals:
What You Will Need
• A source of heat with an oven.
• A roasting pan.
• A large saucepan with a lid.
• A wooden spoon.
• A cooking spoon.
• 4 platters.
Ingredients
• 2 chopped celery sticks.
• 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced into medium chunks.
• 2 tsp ground cumin.
• 3 tbsp olive oil.
• 1 chopped onion.
• 1 tsp oregano, dried.
• 2 crushed garlic cloves.
• 1 tbsp tomato purée.
• 2 x 400g cans tomatoes, chopped.
• 1 red pepper, cut into chunks.
• 400g can black beans, drained.
• 1-2 tsp chilli powder.
• 2 tsp paprika, smoked.
• 400g can kidney beans, drained.
• 2 peeled and chopped carrots.
• 200ml water.
Directions
• Heat the oven to a temperature of about 392.0 °F.
• While the oven is heating up, put the sweet potato chunks in the roasting pan and sprinkle over the olive oil, ground cumin, smoked paprika, giving everything a good mix to ensure all the chunks are coated in spices.
• Now season the mixture with salt as well as pepper then roast until cooked(this should take around 25 minutes).
• Meanwhile, heat the remaining oil in the saucepan over medium heat.
• After that, add celery, onions, and carrots and then cook until soft, stirring every now and then.
• Then add the garlic and cook for 1 min more before adding the remaining dried spices alongside tomato puree, mixing the contents of the saucepan well and cooking for 1 min more.
• Thereafter, add the tomatoes, red pepper and water and stir gently.
• Next, bring the chilli to a boil then simmer for 20 mins.
• Now toss in the beans and cook for another 10 mins before transferring in the sweet potato, which you had initially put in the roasting pan.
• Finally, season to taste before serving with rice.
2. Carrot & Coriander Soup
Carrot and coriander soup is another incredible vegan delicacy that’s very easy to make. It takes only 15 minutes to prepare the ingredients and 25 minutes to cook this super healthy soup that’s great for dinner. Below is a 4-serving carrot and coriander soup recipe:
What You Will Need
• A large saucepan with cover.
• A source of heat.
• A food processor.
Ingredients
• ½ a supermarket packet coriander.
• 450g peeled and chopped carrots.
• 1 chopped potato.
• 1.2l chicken or vegetable stock.
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil.
• 1 chopped onion.
• 1 tsp ground coriander.
Directions
• Heat the vegetable oil in the saucepan before adding onions and frying until softened.
• Next, add the ground coriander and chopped potato pieces and stir well before cooking for 1 minute.
• After that, add the peeled and chopped carrots and the chicken or vegetable stock and bring to a boil before reducing the heat.
• Then cover and cook until the carrots are tender.
• After that, transfer to the food processor with 1tbsp coriander then blitz until smooth. (You may do this in batches if need be).
• Thereafter, return to the pan, add salt if necessary, then let reheat a little bit before serving.
3. Falafel Burgers
Falafel Burgers are not only yummy, and filling, but they are also very healthy with minimal calories. Plus, they are fairly easy to make at home with a meal for four individuals requiring only 16 minutes to do so. The prep and cook times for that are 10 minutes and 6 minutes, respectively. However, if you don’t want to use falafels, you can use tofu (but don’t forget it has to pressed for best results), you can use tofu press like this from TofuBud.
Here is a quick recipe for that:
What You Will Need
• Kitchen paper.
• A food processor.
• A non-stick frying pan.
• A source of heat.
• A slotted spoon.
Ingredients
• 1⁄2 tsp chilli powder or harissa paste.
• 200g tub tomato salsa.
• 400g rinsed and drained chickpea.
• 1 chopped garlic clove.
• 1 small and roughly chopped red onion.
• 1 loaf of toasted pitta bread.
• A handful of curly parsley or flat-leaf parsley.
• 1 tsp ground cumin.
• 1 tsp ground coriander.
Green salad, to serve.
• 2 tbsp plain flour.
• 2 tbsp sunflower oil.
• An adequate amount of salt.
Directions
• Using the kitchen paper, pat-dry the chickpeas.
• Next, transfer your pat dried chickpeas into the food processor together with the chopped onions, ground cumin, plain flour, garlic clove, flat-leaf or curly parsley, ground coriander, salt, and chilli powder or harissa paste.
• Next, blitz until fairly smooth before shaping into four patties, using your hands.
• After that, heat the sunflower oil in the frying pan before adding the burgers.
• Thereafter, fry on each side until lightly golden.
• Lastly, serve with green salad, toasted pitta bread, and tomato salsa.
As you can see, each of these delicacies is very easy to prepare in a matter of minutes. The only variation is that some delicacies such as vegan chilli and falafel burgers require many ingredients to prepare. The good news, however, is that all the ingredients and meals are readily available online. You can buy those plus all your groceries from a good meal delivery service and have your purchases delivered at your doorstep, which is very convenient. As a vegan, your diet should not have to be boring just because you don’t eat meat and fish. As you can see, there are many delicious delicacies out there that you can enjoy munching and deriving essential nutrients from. These include vegan chilli, carrot & coriander soup, and falafel burgers, each of whose recipe is provided above. The best part is that each delicacy is easy to make with a simple to follow recipe consisting of ingredients you can easily order from your meal delivery service. You can also explore utilizing local meal prep services, which offer personalized vegan meal plans tailored to your dietary preferences and delivered straight to your doorstep, ensuring both convenience and variety in your plant-based diet.
