recipes & cooking tips

"What happened" - you ask. How did a French / Mediterranean food addict such as myself got to a point he's posting a vegan recipe?

Veggie tofu burger - 6 portions

Ingredients

Burgers:

600gm Organic tofu
1 shallot - finely chopped
1 medium onion - finely chopped
4 tbsp of quick oat
1 tbsp ketchup
3 tsp sesame seeds (Japaneses black seeds works best)
2 tbsp of organic bread crumbs
salt, pepper
2-3 tbsp sesame oil
2-3 tbsp soy sauce (kikoman rules)
2 small potatoes shredded

Serving

6 burger buns
tomatoes, onion, pickles, mustard, lettuce

Preparation

• Put all the burger ingredients into a mixing ball
• With hands - crush everything into a homogenized and not too fine mixture. Cooking with your hands (i.e. not using forks and spoons) makes better tasting food - guaranteed. Make sure there are no big tofu pieces left or the patties will break-off.
  
• Form patties (don't make them too fat - think McDonald's) - set aside for 5-10 minutes.
  
• Heat up a pan with vegetable oil
• Fry the patties from both sides (about 7-10 minutes. cooking is art, do what feels right!)
  

Serving

• On each plate, cut open the bun
• spread some mustard, cover with lettuce, fried patty, onion, tomatoes and pickles to taste. cover with ketchup.

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Extremely quick and easy to prepare India Dal. The most basic Indian dish is rice dal. You would usually want to add some subzee along, or a good'old palak paneer. Until then, gran your dal:

Ingredients

• red lentils (200 grams)
  
• 4 garlic claws
• 2 medium size tomatoes
• tumeric seeds
  
• cumin seeds
• dried red chilli (or red chilli paste)
• 1 onion
• Yogurt
• Gee (or butter) about 200 gram
  

• Dice onion and add to hot pan with sizzling butter
  
• add diced tomatoes
• add a handful of cumin, tumeric and mix well
• add the lentils and peeled garlic claws
• cover with water
• bring to boil
• lower flame, cook for additional 30 minutes on small flame, until lentils are tender

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Shakshuka is a popular Israeli vegetarian dish. Its a perfect dish to hack when you are dead hungry and there's nothing in the fridge but eggs, tomatoes (or tomato paste) and (maybe) a pepper or two.

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 4 tomatoes (medium) - chopped to small cube
  
• Tomato paste
• 2-3 green peppers (optional)
• 2 onions (small) - finely chopped
  
• hot chili pepper - whole (optional)

Preparation:

• in a pan, Saute` the onion in olive oil until golden
• add in the peppers, tomatoes and saute for 4-5 minutes
• add the tomato paste (and some water), and stir until homogenized.\
• season with salt and pepper
• put the hot chili pepper into the pan (whole) - this will make the Shakshuka extra hot - so don't do it if you're not into heavy perspiration.
• add a little squeeze of lemon, stir.
  
• Now, crack the eggs, put each egg in a different side of the pan carefully so it won't break
• leave it on for about 20-30 minutes, the eggs will be done, and it all will turn out just delicious.

Eat - usually eaten with pita bread, or white (unwhole) bread.

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