Recipes

19 recipes found.

phxpma Aloo Palak (Spinach with potatoes)

A popular Indian dish you will find in many restaurants.

• Type: Main, Starter/Side
• Difficulty: Beginners
• Preparation: Fry
• Cook time: 20 minutes
• Servings: 4

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Christmas Strudel by Sophie Anne Diamond's Christmas Strudel

This recipe was invented for Anne Diamond on her 2010 pre-Christmas Weekend Warm-Up on BBC Radio Berkshire. She loved it, so I said I'd post the recipe here. I wouldn't have invented it without the impetus of cooking up something for her show, so it's only fair it's named after her.

If you want to make caramelised onions for this rather than just fried onions, it's easy though it takes time. You can make them up to three weeks in advance if you refrigerate them. I used a recipe from an Australian site but changed the sugar for agave syrup as that's more healthy with its low glycemic index, and kind to diabetics or anyone with a sugar-related problem such as spots.

• Type: Main, Savory Bake, Starter/Side
• Difficulty: Experienced
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 15 minutes
• Servings: 4
• Yields: 2 small or one large strudel

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by QuintanaRoo of flickr apple, coconut and strawberry mousse

A simple sugar-free recipe to do something different with your apples.

An elegant little dessert, served with sliced strawberry garnish, or even good for delighting an older baby, from about 9 months old, if okay with nuts.

I've selected a photo by the legendary Quintana Roo for this one, giving an idea of the sort of creation you could build from this, such as with nuts, crumbled biscuits and chocolate dairy-free ice cream.

And in looking for a picture on flickr for a vegan strawberry mousse I also came across a recipe for a vegan strawberry mousse cake which looks amazing, by juanelos, which you can recreate if you read the recipe in Spanish.

• Type: Baby food, Dessert, Faux Dairy
• Difficulty: Easy
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 10 minutes
• Servings: 8
• Yields: 8 or so little ramekins

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Photo: smiteme of flickr Chocolate Brownies

The Vegetarian Society has delicious recipes like this on it's website, many of which are vegan. They also run highly acclaimed chef's training courses through their Cordon Vert School. This recipe also appeared in Cook Vegetarian magazine, a glossy monthly packed with recipes aimed at any cooks, not just vegetarians.

The photograph is of a different vegan recipe used by smiteme, who put in vegan marshmallows instead of nuts.

• Type: Cake/Muffin, Dessert
• Difficulty: Experienced
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 25 minutes
• Servings: 8
• Yields: 16 brownies

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Photo: Sophie's muffin Coconut Banana Muffins

The great benefit of this recipe is that it requires no specialist ingredients at all. You can buy them all in a small grocers or supermarket.

If you buy bags of very ripe bananas cheaply such as at an Indian shop or market stall (such as Dudmans of Reading), this is a nicely low-cost recipe. I invented it for tasting at a school veggie workshop.

• Type: Cake/Muffin
• Difficulty: Kids
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 15 minutes
• Servings: 12
• Yields: 24 small muffins

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Happy Kids Salad

Kids are much more likely to enjoy food they make, especially if they have a say in the ingredients. A salad is a great starting dish to learn on, and most kids like raw veg better than cooked. Excellent for adults and beginner chefs of all ages! Grated salads seem more special and are easier to eat.

• Type: Salad
• Difficulty: Kids
• Preparation: Raw
• Servings: 4
• Yields: bowl of salad

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Jam Doughnuts

These come out exactly like the familiar doughnuts (donuts) we know and love, but they just happen to be dairy-free, egg-free and a little healthier.

It takes about 4 hours till you have your doughnuts, but most of that is free time to do whatever else you like! They are very straightforward to make if you have a bread-maker and fryer and follow their instructions for use. Hot oil can burn, so take care not to splash it.

You could alternatively make the dough the traditional kneading way - just follow the instructions in any recipe that tells you how to make bread by hand, using our ingredients. Deep pans of oil as opposed to electric fryers are very flammable and it is hard to control their temperature so they are not a realistic alternative unless you are very experienced and careful.

The bread maker dough time (2 hours 20 mins normally) and proving time (30-45 minutes) are not included in the timings because you can do your own thing meanwhile!

• Type: Cake/Muffin, Snack
• Difficulty: Beginners
• Preparation: Fry
• Cook time: 5 minutes
• Servings: 8
• Yields: about 16 medium doughnuts

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Lentil Dhal - cheap and easy

This recipe was devised for Family Meal for a Fiver on BBC Berkshire. In fact the whole tasty and filling two course meal cost about half that, at only £2.58.

• Type: Main
• Difficulty: Beginners
• Preparation: Other
• Cook time: 25 minutes
• Servings: 4

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lettuce wraps

You can chop up whatever you fancy for these - just chop it up small. The basic idea is to make it like the Chinese starter.

• Type: Salad, Starter/Side
• Difficulty: Beginners
• Preparation: No Cook
• Servings: 4
• Yields: as many as you like

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by QuintanaRoo of flickr Mango, cashew and coconut mousse

A gorgeous and ever so simple recipe that's smooth and creamy.

It is also raw and rather healthy. What a winner!

You can serve the mousse by itself, garnished with fruit or as an alternative to soya cream to accompany any dessert to make it extra special. 

To make a dessert like that in the photo, you could use a chocolate dairy-free ice cream such as Swedish Glace or Booja Booja. Alternatively, add some cocoa powder to half of the mixture, and layer with the non-cocoa version in a tall glass along with fruit and anything else you fancy.

It's simple to multiply up the ingredients if you need more.

• Type: Baby food, Dessert, Faux Dairy, Sauce
• Difficulty: Beginners
• Preparation: Raw
• Cook time: 5 minutes
• Servings: 4
• Yields: small servings

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Photo: Sophie Martin and Sophie's Christmas Pudding

This recipe is based on one from a series of dishes by Martin Shaw, available through Viva! Not only is Martin a great actor, he's also a dab hand at vegan cooking, and his Christmas pud recipe is the best ever.

I have changed the recipe a bit for my own tastes, considerably reducing the amount of sugar and increasing the spices, dried fruit and nuts, so if you like a really sweet one, go to the original recipe, or just double up on agave syrup or sugar on this one to go half way.

Martin says: 'One of my favourites! Don’t let the ingredients or cooking time put you off making this pudding - the effort is minimal and the end result is light and delicious!'

Keeps you arms fit too!

• Type: Dessert
• Difficulty: Easy
• Preparation: Steam
• Cook time: 6h
• Servings: 24
• Yields: one 5pt pudding or several small

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mince pies by Sophie Marzipan topped mince pies

Created with reminiscences of cooking by my mum when I was a kid. She made mini apple pies baked with Marzipan instead of pastry lids. Yum.

To make these gluten-free you can use marzipan entirely instead of pastry, but make them small as they will be very sweet then. Jusrol non-butter patries are vegan and dairy-free, or simply make your own with vegan margarine, flour and a little cold water.

• Type: Confectionery, Dessert
• Difficulty: Beginners
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 12 minutes
• Servings: 8
• Yields: lots of little pies

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Multi-seed Bread-Machine Bread

It's so easy to develop bread recipes using a bread maker, as the lack of effort makes it worth the risk of experimenting. This recipe is highly nutritious, with a high protein content (soya flour, nuts and seeds), iodine from the seaweed and salt, and numerous minerals including iron and zinc from the whole-grains, nuts and seeds.

Apparently it's nutritionally best to maximise the leavening time, so try to use standard rather than the quick setting on your bread maker, but if in a hurry it will come out pretty much the same on the rapid mode.

• Type: Bread
• Difficulty: Kids
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 5h
• Servings: 8
• Yields: 1 loaf

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Sonia's Birthday Cake Sonia's apple, strawberry and coconut cake

This recipe was created for Sonia's surprise birthday party. A wonderful vegan deserves a good cake.

For a cake free from refined sugar make sure the jam is 100% fruit spread and the yoghurt is plain, and just add a little extra jam or fruit.

It was covered with raw cashew, coconut and apple mousse and decorated with sliced kiwi and strawberry.

• Type: Cake/Muffin
• Difficulty: Easy
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 55 minutes
• Servings: 12
• Yields: 1 large cake

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Soup plus plus

like the special baked beans, this recipe has endless variations and is a quick cheat to a tasty meal in minutes.

You could serve it with bread, or even use it as a sauce for rice or pasta.

• Type: Main, Sauce, Soup, Starter/Side
• Difficulty: Beginners
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 5 minutes
• Servings: 4
• Yields: a pan of soup

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special baked beans

This is baked beans with stuff added. The variations are endless. It's a great basis for a quick nutritious meal for all ages. You start with baked beans, add something green and leafy (good to include in any meal), add any tasty bits that don't need much cooking or are already cooked, heat through and you have a meal in minutes!

• Type: Breakfast, Main, Sauce, Snack, Starter/Side
• Difficulty: Beginners
• Preparation: Other
• Cook time: 5 minutes
• Servings: 4
• Yields: pan of special beans

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Sophie's sponge pudding Sponge Pudding - cheap, easy and fast

This is so wonderfully easy and quick - I often do it for the kids, especially when their friends come round for tea. You can buy all the ingredients in an ordinary supermarket.

It's cheapest if you make the custard yourself, which you can also do in the microwave, with soya milk, custard powder (eg Birds) and sugar. Make enough so you can serve it with custard too, and use a large microwave-proof bowl so as not to make a mess of the microwave.

• Type: Dessert
• Difficulty: Kids
• Preparation: Mircowave
• Cook time: 5 minutes
• Servings: 4
• Yields: one medium sized sponge pudding

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vegan egg-free Yorkshire pudding

This recipe comes from Vegan Campaigns (who have some excellent cooks), and is an alternative to the one on the Veggie Snow website, which uses rather different ingredients.

• Type: Starter/Side
• Difficulty: Easy
• Preparation: Bake
• Cook time: 20 minutes
• Servings: 4
• Yields: 12 individual Yorkshires

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Zuki's Cashewnut Pate

This recipe is not exact, and changes all the time according to whim and what's in the cupboard and fridge, so experiment.

With careful overseeing if the use of a hand blender and grinder, kids can easily make this, giving them an early introduction into no-recipe food preparation.

• Type: Main, Sauce, Spread/Pate, Starter/Side
• Difficulty: Kids
• Preparation: No Cook
• Servings: 4
• Yields: small to medium bowl of pate

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