Review: Edamame Salad
Chef Emeril Green has lots of healthy recipes and videos of how to make them. This is an especially tasty Asian Salad. It’s very easy to make and needs just a few ingredients – carrots, daikon radish, an apple and edamame beans. The dressing is delicious and the salad a real [...]
Irish Apple Parsnip Soup
Sweet and creamy, lightly spiced, this soup is very tasty.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 & 1/2 pounds parsnips, peeled and cut in chunks
1 large apple, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 cups vegetable bouillon
1/2 teaspoon sage
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4-1/3 cup soy cream
optional parsley chopped as [...]
Sunchoke and Chestnut Soup
This elegant soup is very tasty and filling.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 lb. of sunchokes (Jerusalem artichoke), well scrubbed and cut into slices
1/2 red bell pepper, deseeded and sauteed
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 leek, sliced
1 small onion, chopped
1 clove garlic minced
1/2 apple, peeled and sliced
4 ounces roasted chestnuts, peeled and sliced
2 cups vegetable bouillon
1/4 cup white wine
2 sprigs [...]
Vegan apple cheesecake with caramel sauce
This elegant desert is much healthier than it looks or tastes, thankfully so. The fall flavors of apple and cinnamon enhance this lovely cheesecake while the caramel sauce lends its warm sweet flavor. A very tasty dish, especially in the fall.
Serving Size: 2
Ingredients:
2 pieces frozen vegan puff pastry, thawed
For the cheesecake filling:
2 apple cut in [...]
Cinnamon Apple Biscuits
These are a variation to the All American Biscuits we posted last year. It’s the same basic recipe, with a bit of sugar, cinnamon and apples added, and as they will bring moisture, a bit more flour too.
Yield: 9 big biscuits
Ingredients:
2 & 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoons flour (divided)
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons cold [...]
Review: Apple Curry Rice
It’s really great how apples can lend themselves to savory recipes as well as sweet ones. We really enjoyed this curried rice recipe with apples and raisins.
We found this recipe at the Virginia Apples website. We did not do the microwave as we prefer to cook on the stove top. We cooked the rice traditionally [...]
Parsnip Pierogi with Red Cabbage and Sauted Apples
These mild flavors blend together to make a very nice meal on a chilly wet night. The apples bring out both the flavors of the parsnips and the red cabbage.
Yield: 9-10 pierogi
Ingredients:
1 pkg. (680 grams) red cabbage
2 teaspoons soy margarine
2 apples, finely sliced
For the dough:
2 cups flour (I used 1 cup regular flour [...]
Review: Apple Waffles
Even though it’s early fall, our apples have ripened up and we’ve been looking for new ways to use them. We’ve made a delicious apple butter, and this morning enjoyed apple waffles with apple cider sauce and apple butter.
Mmmmm, very apply. Isa, one of the very talented cooks from the post Punk Kitchen has created [...]
Pumpkin and Apple Soup with Toasted Seeds
This vibrant orange soup tastes wonderful. It has a mellow sweetness from the apples and that just about all it needs. The red kuri pumpkin is one of our favorites, as grown biologically, you can eat the skin as well as the flesh thus it imparts a vibrant color to any recipe.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
3 apples, [...]
Apple and Thyme Crunchy Tofu
It may sound surprising, combining apples and onions, but they really taste great together. With a generous amount of thyme and a splash of balsamic vinegar, this becomes a gourmet delight.
Serving Size: 2
Yield: 4 slices
Ingredients:
1 pkg. firm tofu, cut in thin slices
1/4 cup dry flour for dredging
1/4 cup flour and water for dredging
3/4 cup penko [...]
Curried Waldorf Salad
We wanted to call this “better than Waldorf” as it tasted so good. Slightly sweet with a hint of heat and full of crunch.
Ingredients:
for the salad:
2 apples, peeled and cut into small pieces
1/3 cup walnuts, chopped
3 stalks celery, cleaned and chopped
1/4 cup golden raisins
for the dressing:
1/2 cup soy yogurt
1 Tbs. walnut oil
1 tsp. garam masala
1 [...]
Spicy Carrot Soup with Apple Crisps
This flavorful soup was lovely as our starter on Thanksgiving evening. The crispy apple chips give a nice sweetness, to offset the slightly spicy soup, flavored wit a touch of paprika. The apple crisps are easy to make however take a lot of time in a low oven to dry.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
2 strong cooking apples
2 [...]
Sweet Red Bell Pepper with Apple Soup
The sweetness of the red bell peppers is complimented by the sweet apples making this a very nice warm soup for a chilly fall evening.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
4 large red bell peppers, seeded,ribs removed, chopped
1/2 cup onion, chopped
1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped
1 carrot, peeled and chopped
4 cups vegetable bouillon
salt and pepper to taste
chili powder
Directions:
Saute the [...]
Curried Seitan with Apple Pieces
The apples in this mild curry give a nice texture and a slightly sweet hint.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
12 oz. seitan pieces
1 pkg. fresh mushrooms, quartered
3 Tbs. oil
3 Tbs. mixed curry powder
1/2 tsp. cumin
1 cup white wine
1 Tbs. flour
1 spring onions
1 red bell pepper, in fine thin slices
3-4 tart apples, cut in pieces
1 & 1/2 cups plain [...]
Review: Apple Pierogi with Caramel and Macerated Raspberries
I wish I could lay claim to these, they are fantastic, but the credit all goes to Dan Remark of the Mustard Seed Market & Cafe, Akron, Ohio. He posted this Eastern European recipe on the “Restaurants and Institutions” Blog. I had been looking for some unusual apple recipes to offer the Vegalicious fans and [...]
Pumpkin and Apple Risotto with Tofu Pieces
This year we had a lot of good apples and many pumpkins in our garden. This recipe combines them both to a great meal.
Servings: 4-6
Ingredients:
2 cups pumpkin, cut into bite sized chunks
2 cups apple cider or apple Juice
2 tbs. olive oil
1 onion, chopped
2 cups Arborio rice
3 apples, peeled and diced
1 red bell pepper, seeded and [...]
Rhubarb-apple turnovers with sauce
Rhubarb season is just beginning. These turnovers were very tasty and easy to make.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 apple (Granny Smith), peeled and cut into small pieces
3 Tbs. soy margarine
4 stalks rhubarb, cut in small pieces
1 Tbs. flour
cinnamon
ginger, powdered
4 sheets frozen vegan puff pastry, thawed
2 Tbs. sugar
4-6 [...]
Apple chestnut muffins
These muffins were lovely and light. The apple is a nice compliment to the sweetness of the chestnuts and does not overpower the subtle flavor.
Yield: 10
Ingredients:
1 & 1/2 egg replacement
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup salad oil
1 capful vanilla extract
1 cup chestnuts (peeled and chopped fine)
1 med. apple, peeled and chopped [...]
Broccoli apple soup
This is a really tasty soup. Often we enjoy mixing the flavors of fruits with vegetables, and this soup really turned out to be very tasty especially on a chilly wet day.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon oil
2 cups broccoli, including the stems, chopped
3/4 teaspoons thyme,
1 cup onion, chopped
2 cooking apples, peeled [...]
Red cabbage with apples and chestnuts
The sweet nutty chestnuts add a great flavor to our traditional sweet sour red cabbage recipe. Red cabbage has such a great flavor.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 lb. chestnuts
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 red onions, thinly sliced
1 head red cabbage,very thinly sliced
1/2 cup red wine vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)
6 tablespoons [...]
Brussels sprouts with apples and onions
This is so simple, yet tastes delicious. By using the red onions, it gets a red and green coloring.
Serving Size: 2
Ingredients:
500 grams Brussels sprouts, cleaned and halved
2 red onions, finely sliced
2 apples, finely sliced
lemon juice
1 Tbs. olive oil
1/2 cup vegetable bouillon
1/2 cup dry white wine
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Dutch apple raisin pie
This is really an apple flavored pie. Most Dutch apple pies have raisins, but the secret here is that there is a “custard” made from apple juice, so the pie really full of apple flavor.
Ingredients:
1 pie crust
1 cup raisins
1&1/2 cups apple juice
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbs. corn starch
1 Tbs. flour
1/2 [...]
Kohlrabi Waldorf salad
This is such a nice fresh and crunchy salad. We really enjoyed this.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 kohlrabi, peeled and sliced in small thin slices
1 Granny Smith apple, cored and sliced in thin slices
100 grams pistachio nuts, shelled and sliced
lemon vinaigrette
2 Tbs. lemon flavored sunflower oil
1 lemon, zested and juiced
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Fruit raita
This nice fruit raita is especially lovely served with a spicy Indian meal. It can also be enjoyed as a spicy fruit salad.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 cup plain soy yogurt
1 tsp. cumin
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. garam masala
1 Tbs. maple, agave or corn syrup
1 small pineapple, cut in pieces
1 [...]
