Showing posts with label vegetarian recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetarian recipe. Show all posts

Monday, April 3, 2017

Tofu salad with sesame seeds and veggies

Is this time of the year before Pesach when I have to be creative enough to combine different products from the kitchen to create new easy recipes. With the spring around the thoughts about clean eating, the veggies are always part of the scenery. The following recipe is, as most of my recipes, easy to prepare, delicious and with an expense of less than 25 EUR. It works perfectly as a snack, breakfast, lunch or dinner, for small or big kids.
Ingredients:
- 200 gr. Tofu cut in cubes
- 3 mini yellow bell pepper, finelly chopped
- 3 shallots, finelly chopped; alternatively, garlic can also be used or 1 medium red onion
- 125 gr. white champignons, finelly chopped
- 1 tablespoon white sesame
- 3 tablespoons walnut oil; alternatively, the same amount of olive oil can be used
- 1 tomato for decoration
- 1/2 teaspoon of normal salt
Serves: 3
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Warm the oil in a pan warmed at 250C. Add one by one the other ingredients. Mix them well until they are getting a gold-brownish colour. The peppers may need more frying because they contain a high amount of water. The good part is that the liquid from the vegetables is mixing well as a sauce in the pan and at the end all the ingredients are benefiting. If you want your tofu well burned you can wait a bit more until it gets brownish on all side. I personally preferred to finish when the tofu is half-baked. I also found that it is much healthier and tastier for the baby who also had his portion from the salad - and liked it.
I poured all the ingredients in a salad bowl, mixed them one more time. I added the tomato slices as a decoration. In addition, it also offers a good of freshness, in case that you don't fancy too much all the frying, oily taste. On taste, you can also add a pinch of black pepper.
That's all!

Bon Appetit!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Fast lunch with my dear okra

During the normal lunch time I have a lot of work to do or to be finished as soon as possible and the time is the most precious asset. However, this is the time of the day when the school finish and the hungry diamonds are back and I better be ready to welcome them with the open heart and a warm food.
Thanks to my imagination, I do my lunch homeworks well and in due time. Take, for instance, yesterday, when I combined the following ingredients:

200 gr. okra, finelly chopped
100 gr. white mushrooms, finelly chopped as well
150 gr. cherry tomatoes
1 tablespoon coriander
1/4 tablespoon cayenne
1/2 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon almonds
150 cl. sunflower oil - butter or vegetable margarine can be used as well

All the above ingredients were added in the pan and fried together for around 20 minutes. In less than half an hour, the healthy lunch was ready to be eaten. 

Bon Appetit!