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Gado-Gado: Veggie Medley Dressed with Nutty Peanut Sauce (In Malay)

Watch video :     July 16, 2009

(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Serves
4 Cassava crackers
4 pieces tofu
150 grams tempeh
Vegetables
200 grams water spinach
150 grams bean sprouts
150 grams green beans
2 medium-sized potatoes, steamed
1 ready-made rice cake (or vermicelli)

Peanut Sauce

600 milliliters mineral water
300 grams roasted peanut (ground)
100 grams palm sugar
5 tablespoons sugar
4½ teaspoons sea salt
2 cloves garlic (or 25 grams ginger)
14 kaffir lime leaves
2½ tablespoons vegan shrimp powder (belachan)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Red chili padi (optional)

Directions

Directions (to make Peanut Sauce):
1.Pour water into blender, add palm sugar, salt, vegan shrimp powder, lime leaves, garlic, chili padi, lemon juice dan 75% of the roasted peanut
2.After they blend perfectly, pour the rest of the roasted peanut, mix well

Serving:
Put some tofus onto plate, add some potatoes, bean sprouts, green beans, spinach and rice cake. Pour peanut sauce over the plate, then add cassave crackers on top. Enjoy..

Estofado Santafereño:Vegan Traditional Taste of the Colombian Andes (In Spanish)

Watch video :     July 16, 2009

Vegan Meat:
½ pound okara
½ pound gluten
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup herb sauce (celery, parsley, garlic, onion)
2 tablespoons flaxseed powder
1 tablespoon turmeric
4 tablespoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
Water (optional)
1 medium onion
Sautéed Mushrooms
Mushrooms
1 tablespoon turmeric
2 tablespoons oil

Mushroom Cream:
6 mushrooms
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon flour
Salt to taste
Mashed Andean

Criolla Potatoes:
Andean criolla potatoes
(or Sabanera, Pastusa, or sweet, or white)
Vegan Butter

Beet and Onion Salad:
White and red onion
Clove (spice)
Bay leaf
Vinegar
Salt
Olive oil
Directions
Vegan Meat
  1. Soak the soyabeans in water at least for 4 hours, up to 8-10 hours.
  2. Drain the water, and put the soyabeans into the blender. Blend it.
  3. Filter the blender soya, and the remaining soya that is left is called okara.
  4. Cook the okara for 20-30 minutes.
  5. Meanwhile, prepare a special marinade sauce by blending some herbs such as parsley, garlic, onion, with a little water.
  6. After the okara cooked, add in half a pound of gluten.
  7. Add a teaspoon of pepper.
  8. Add in the salt.
  9. Add in the flaxseed powder. Mix all well.
  10. Add in the turmeric powder.
  11. Add in the vegetable oil, the soy sauce, and the special marinade sauce that have been prepared earlier.
  12. Mix well, and add a bit of water if needed, depent on the consistency of the mixture.
  13. Shape the mixture into a big loaf and cut it into several pieces for easier frying.
  14. Put some oil in a pan, and meanwhile slice and chop some onion into small pieces.
  15. Lightly fry the onion until it becomes caramelized, and then put in the portion of the vegan meat for the stew.
  16. Leave the vegan meat in the pan for about 5 minutes or until both sides are golden brown.
  17. Add in the sautéed mushroom.
  18. Add in the mushrooms sauce.
  19. Leave it for about20 minutes on a low flame.
  20. Check constantly to watch so the sauce doesn’t get too dry. If it happens, add in a little bit of water.
  21. Place the vegan meat on a dish. Put a sprig of parsley for decoration.
  22. Add and arrange the beet that have been previously cooked.
  23. Garnish with the onion that is forming some little rings.
Sautéed Mushrooms
  1. Sautéed the mushroom for more or less 2 minutes on low flame.
  2. Add in a little bit of turmeric powder.
  3. Add in a spoonful of the mushroom cream and a little salt.
  4. Let it cook for 2-3 minutes.’
Mushroom Cream
  1. Put the mushrooms into a blender.
  2. Add in 2 tablespoons of soy sauce.
  3. Add in 1 tablespoons flour.
  4. Add in salt to taste.
  5. Mix until they become cream.
Mashed Andean Criolla Potatoes
  1. Cook the potatoes beforehand with the skin left on.
  2. Mash the potatoes.
  3. Add in the melted vegan butter.
  4. Mix well.
  5. Serve it on the side of the dish by making a kind of small round scoop.
Beet and Onion Salad
  1. Cut the beets and cook it with the skin. Remove the skin after it is cooked.
  2. While the beets is cooking, add a little salt and a bay leaf.
  3. Cut the onion into thin slices and then form some rings.
  4. Sprinkle a little vinegar and olive oil.

The Creamy Sweetness of Sour Cherry Pyramid Cake

Watch video :     July 13, 2009

(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Dough
250 grams vegan margarine
200 grams vegan sour cream
1 teaspoon baking soda
Vinegar or lemon juice
3–3½ cups of flour
Fresh sour cherries or canned sour cherries in syrup

Vegan Cream
1 kilogram vegan sour cream
1 cup brown sugar;
you can Chopped nuts (optional)




Directions

  1. For the dough, mix 250 grams of margarine, 200 grams of vegan sour cream.
  2. Add in some vinegar or lemon juice to the baking soda, mix well then add into the margarine mixture.
  3. Mix well.
  4. Add 3 ½ cup of flour. Mix it with spoon and then mix with hand to make it smoother.
  5. Knead well the dough, shape it into a loaf and then cut it in 3 and refrigerate them for at least 4 hours or overnight would be better.
  6. After 4 hours, take out the dough. For each piece, cut it into 5 pieces and form them into balls.
  7. Take one ball and roll it to the widht of the baking pan and then flatten it to 5-7 centimeters wide. Make sure that the edges are the same size as the middle.
  8. Arrange the cherries in the middle. Make sure the dough can cover all the cherries. There will be 15 rolls filled with cherries.
  9. Put the filled rolls in the oven for about 20-30 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  10. Meanwhile, prepare the cream. Put in a bowl 1 kilogram of vegan sour cream.
  11. Add a cup of brown sugar or more for sweeter cream.
  12. Add in all kind of nuts that have been chopped into small pieces.
  13. Mix it very well so the sugar dissolves.
  14. When the rolls are ready, take them out of the oven and let them cool for about 20-30 minutes.
  15. For the first layer, arrange 5 roll on a big plate and put the cream on the top.
  16. Put the second layer consist of 4 rolls. This will form a pyramid. Put the cream on the top.
  17. Continue until the pyramid is ready. Sprinkle some ground nuts on the very top for garnish.
  18. Put the cake in the fridge for about overnight so that the sour cream can be absorbed.
  19. Ready to be served.

Haitian Pumpkin Soup of Freedom (Soup Joumou) and Spiced Hot Chocolate (In Haitian Creole)

Watch video :     July 13, 2009

(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Haitian Pumpkin Soup
(Soup Joumou)
1 cup chopped pumpkin
1 large leek
2 cups cabbage
2 onions
2 teaspoons garlic
1 teaspoon thyme
½ cup vegan “lard” (tofu)
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon oil
8 cups water
Country-style



Spiced Hot Chocolate
½ dark raw cocoa
1 cup coconut milk
1 cup soy milk
3 cinnamon sticks
or ½ teaspoon
powdered cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
Anise (optional)




Directions
Haitian Pumpkin Soup (Soup Joumou)
  1. Cut the cabbage into small pieces.
  2. Mince the garlic.
  3. Chop the leeks.
  4. Add in a little bit of oil in a pot.
  5. When the oil hot, add in the vegan “lard”.
  6. Add a bit of leeks first, and the rest afterwards.
  7. Add in the onions and then the garlic.
  8. Add in a pinch of salt.
  9. Add in a bit of the water, and let them boil to cook.
  10. When they boil, add in the pumpkin.
  11. Add in the cabbage and the celery.
  12. Stir well.
  13. Add in 8 cups of water to make the broth. Let it boils for about 20 minutes. And then puree the pumpkin.
  14. When it boils, add in the macaroni.
  15. To present the soup, add a few leaves of basil, a habanero chili pepper to decorate.
Spiced Hot Chocolate
  1. Melt the chocolate by grating it firs.
  2. Add in the coconut milk.
  3. Then add in the soya milk in an equal portion.
  4. Mix slowly at first.
  5. Take the nutmeg, grate a little bit into the chocolate drink.
  6. Add in 2 small cinnamon sticks or ½ teaspoon of cinnamon.
  7. Stir all.
  8. Put the mixture on the stove to heat.
  9. To present, decorate a cup with cinnamon.
  10. Add sugar to taste.
  11. The hot chocolate is ready.

Savory Nepalese Semolina Rolls

Watch video :     July 10, 2009

(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
500 grams semolina flour
250 grams tofu
½ cup coriander leaves
2–3 onions
3–4 green chilies
½ liter water
2–3 tablespoons oil
Salt




Directions

  1. Take 4 cups of semolina flour and then pour about 4 cups of water. Mix.
  2. Leave it as it is for about 1½ hours so that it becomes like a paste.
  3. This is called the outer roll.
  4. For the stuffing, chop the onion, and then fry them in a pan with pre-heated oil.
  5. Boil the tofu for about 3-5 minutes so it becomes soft and then mash the tofu.
  6. Fry the onion until they all golden brown and become a little soft.
  7. Add in the mashed tofu.
  8. Add in some chopped chili to the tofu according to taste.
  9. Put ½ tablespoon of salt. Mixed.
  10. After 1½ hour, heat the pan until it becomes very hot and then put a little bit of oil so that the paste won’t stick to the pan.
  11. Spread the oil for the surface, and then lower the flame a little bit.
  12. Put the paste in the center, then pull across the surface evenly. Make it as thin as possible.
  13. Let it heat for some time.
  14. Put a little bit of oil on the outer surface, and then turn it for the other side.
  15. Cook until both sides are golden brown.
  16. After both sides are golden brown, put the filling just a little bit.
  17. Fold the chappati to make it a roll.
  18. Serve it with potato pickle or salads.

Chef Jason Janiak’s Raw Creations: Sweet Potato Pudding and Coconut “Rice” Pudding

Watch video :     July 10, 2009

(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Sweet Potato Pudding
1½ cups sweet potato
1 cup young coconut water
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon clove
2 tablespoons chia seeds
½ teaspoon ginger
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ cup young coconut meat
Cinnamon to garnish
Coconut “Rice” Pudding
2½ cups young coconut water
½ cup chia seeds
¼ cup agave nectar
1½ cups young coconut meat
1 teaspoon cinnamon
4 tablespoons coconut flakes






Visit Chef Jason and his vegan Raw Creations at raw-creations.com


Directions
Sweet Potato Pudding
  1. Peel and chop the sweet potatoes.
  2. Put them in the food processor, and add in a cup of coconut water.
  3. Add in 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and ½ teaspoon of clove.
  4. Add in 2 tablespoons of chia seeds and ½ teaspoon of ginger.
  5. Add in ½ teaspoon of nutmeg and ½ cup of coconut meat.
  6. Put the lid on and blend them all. Start off on low for about 10-15 seconds.
  7. Check the consitency, and then move it up to high speed. When the consistency already nice and thick, turn the food processor off and pour the mixture into a bowl.
  8. Sprinkle some cinnamon powder on top as a kind of dressing.
  9. Ready to be served.
Coconut “Rice” Pudding
  1. Put 2½ cup of coconut water into a food processor.
  2. Add in ½ cup of chia seeds.
  3. Add in ¼ cup of agave.
  4. Add in 1½ cup of coconut meat.
  5. Add in 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.
  6. Blend them all until it becomes very firm, very thick.
  7. Start on low, and then put it on high until it’s well mixed.
  8. Put the blend in a bowl and put some coconut flakes in there.
  9. Ready to be served.

Nori and Quinoa Titikaka Rolls (In Spanish)

Watch video :     July 7, 2009

(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Nori seaweed
200 grams sushi rice
200 grams quinoa
6 tablespoons rice vinegar
¾ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
Cucumber
Avocado
Tofu
Shiitake mushroom
Carrot
Served with soy sauce and sesame seeds




Directions

NORI AND QUINOA TITIKAKA ROLLS

1. Pour 4 cups of boiling water into the pot and turn on the stove. Leave it there.

2. While water is boiling, cut the tofu into the cube and chop the shiitake mushrooms without stem and carrots, cucumber and avocado into strips for the filling.

3. To prepare the seasoning for the rice, have the 6 tablespoons of rice vinegar and then add 3/4 teaspoons of salt and a teaspoon of sugar.

4. If water is boiling enough, pour the rice and quinoa which must be very well washed and then leave it for 40 minutes on the stove.

5. When rice is done, sprinkle the dressing which we made it alreay with teaspoon, spreading evenly throughout the rice and quinoa.

6. Put the nori seaweed on the the mat known in Japan as Tatami and put the rice in the middle of the nori seaweed. Please fill the half of nori seaweed and put our filling like avocado, tofu, carrots, shiitake mushrooms and cucumber. (option: you can put anything you want)

7. Put a little bit water at the end of nori seaweed to make seaweed stick with the other end of it and roll it up.

8. Slice the nori and quinoa titikak rolls into the bite-size and serve them deliciously.


Quinoa:
it's a grains and psedoucereal but it does not belong to the family of grains as wheat, belong to the family of chenopodium, which contains all the amino acid. It is produced in the high pleteau of the Andes, well known in Peru as well as in Bolivia and northern Chile. Quinoa was sacred to the Inca people and for the pre-Inca people also. it gave people almost all the protein and amino acid they needed.

Avocado: it has an abundance of omega 3s and many essential vitamins.

Togolese Rice Paste Served with Peanut Sauce Stew (In Ewe)

Watch video :     July 7, 2009

INGREDIENTS:
(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Peanut Sauce Stew
Mashed peanuts (peanut butter)
Cabbage
Tomatoes
Carrots
White aubergines
Scotch bonnet pepper
Banana pepper
Onion
Gluten
Crushed spiced


Chili powder
Seasoning cube powder
Salt
Water
Rice Paste
Rice
Water


Directions

TOGOLESE PEANUT SAUCE STEW WITH RICE PASTE

1. Chop the tomatoes into 6~8 pieces and put them in the saucepan.

2. After putting the saucepan including the tomatoes on the stove, and add the mashed peanuts to it.

3. Thoroughly stir chopped tomates and mashed peanut mix on the stove.

4. Chop all the cabbage and add it to the boiling mixture.

5. Cut the aubergines and carrots and then put them in to another pot with water.

6. After boiling the content in the pan, add the carrots and aubergines into boiling sauce.

7. Add the crushed spices such as chili powder, salt and the seasonings and then cover the lid so that the content can boil.

8. In the meantime, chop the scotch bonnet pepper and the onion and then add them to the boiling content.

9. And serve it on the plate.

1. To cook the rice paste, put the pot on the stove and add water in it. (caution: your water should be more than what we use for ordinary rice cooking)

2. Rince the rice we are going to cook the rice paste and put it into the boiling water. (caution: should cover the pot with the lid)

3. If rice is well steamed, stir it very well so the steamed rice grains becom well mashed up.

4. And put the well mashed rice in any kind of bowl to make the round-shape. , put it on the plate and serve it with sauce.



Pistachio Crusted Tempeh with Shiitake Mushroom Gravy by Chef Philip Gelb

Watch video :     July 7, 2009

Tempeh
1 pound tempeh, cut into inch thick slices
Marinade
½ cup seaweed stock
2 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice (or yuzu juice)
1 tablespoon shoyu
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 shallot or green onion, chopped
1 tablespoon chopped basil
Salt
Raw pistachios
Shiitake Mushroom
Gravy
½ pound shiitake, chopped (or mushroom of choice)
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon minced ginger
¼ cup shoyu
1 cup shiitake kombu stock
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro or parsley
1 tablespoon chopped basil
Almond syrup (or orgeat syrup)
2 tablespoons non-toasted sesame oil
Ground black pepper
Served with fresh or sautéed vegetables



Contact Chef Philip Gelb
for vegan gourmet creations: PhilipGelb.com or MySpace.com/InTheMoodForFood

Directions


  1. Cut the tempeh into inches size.
  2. Cut the basil, the garlic, and the ginger in very small pieces.
  3. Juice some lemon to get about 2 or 3 tablespoons of lemon juice.
  4. Add in to the lemon juice about a tablespoon of tahini.
  5. Add in the lemon juice mixture into the basil garlic ginger mixture.
  6. Add in a little bit of stock so that the mixture gets a little more volume of liquid.
  7. Mix all the ingredients of the marinade, and add in to the tempeh.
  8. Add a little bit of shoyu and a little black pepper.
  9. Add in a little bit of zing.
  10. Let them sit for about 20 minutes minimum.
  11. To make the shiitake gravy, cut the garlic, ginger, and shallot into small pieces.
  12. Cut the shiitake mushroom into small little dices.
  13. Heat 2 tablespoons of sesame oil, and then add in the garlic, followed by the ginger and the shallots. Sauté them for about 30 seconds.
  14. Add in the mushrooms, and stir. Sauté it for about 2-3 minutes.
  15. Stir every 30 seconds or so to keep it evenly cooking.
  16. Let them cook until the mushrooms are slightly wilted.
  17. Add about 2 tablespoons of shoyu, a tablespoon of almond syrup and a little bit of black pepper.
  18. Add some Szechwan peppercorns for more spicy flavor. This is optional.
  19. Pour the mixture into a food processor and turn them into puree.
  20. Add the chopped cilantro to it.
  21. Turn on the food processor until the sauce becomes very smooth.
  22. Add enough stock to get desired consistency which is slightly thick but not too runny.
  23. Pour the sauce to a little sauce pan and keep it on a very low heat. This is to keep the sauce warm.
  24. For the tempeh, after 20 minutes are over, put it in a 350 degree temperature oven and bake it for approximately 10 minutes.
  25. Meanwhile, take some pistachio nuts, crumble them down in the food processor.
  26. Coat tempeh with the pistachio and then bake it a few more minutes.
  27. Take the tempeh out of the oven, slice into pieces and put it on a little bit of arugula and radicchio salad.
  28. Take the shiitake gravy, and put it on top of the pistachio tempeh.
  29. Ready to be served.

Traditional Mongolian Buuz and Bansh (Steamed and Seasoned Boiled Dumplings) (In Mongolian)

Watch video :     July 7, 2009

INGREDIENTS:
(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Buuz
200 grams wheat flour
100 grams cabbage
50 grams carrot
1 clove garlic
15 grams onion
30 grams green bean
20 grams soy beans
30 grams soy protein
3 grams caraway
30 grams vegetable oil
Chinese red pepper
Anise
5 grams salt
Water



Bansh
200 grams wheat flour
30 grams cabbage
50 grams soy meat
30 grams spinach
50 grams pepper
10 grams parsley
30 grams vegetable oil
Salt to taste
Hot chili pepper to taste
Water




Directions
add some vegetable oil to the dehydrated soy protein.
season it with soy sauce and soy seasoning.

Dough
add some salt to the flour.
kneading it until dough is flexible and soft.
set aside our dough for a few minutes.
be careful not to make the dough too sticky )

Season for soy protein filling
put some oil
add some soy sauce
add some more soy seasoning
add some of your favorite seasonings and mix them.
add some tofu
Put in some dried onion
add dreid cabbage
add A pinch of pepper

make the buzz
roll and stretch the dough lengthwise
flatten dough to be thin enough to pinch the buuz.
put 2 teaspoons of filling here?
make the buuz shaped into a flower using our fingertips to seal it all around.
dip the buuz into oil.

make bansh
flatten one large dough, not separately like buuz.
press dough onto the flattened dough.
cut out circular shaped dough pieces.
put 2 teaspoons of filling and flatten it a little with a spoon.
seal the sides of the bansh.
put some salt into the water.
cook in boiling water for 15 minutes.
fry it after it’s boiled with a little powdered paprika and oil (optional)


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