Enchiladas
Stuff with tomatoes, olives, black beans, cilantro and onion; prepare a quick enchilada sauce from chipotle peppers, tomato sauce, and garlic. Smoother and bake until heated and bubbly through.
Vegan Chili
Use a mix pinto, kidney, and chill beans with onion, little jalapeno pepper and tomato. Do not forget the black pepper, chili powder, garlic and other amazing spices you love. Throw all in a cooker, get prepare for a stick to your ribs meal.
Portobello Mushroom Burgers
Mushrooms with some olive oil, pepper, salt and any other seasoning you love, then broil or grill for a few minutes on each part. Stack them on a bun with quality burger fixings, and then serve. You would not be fooling any one with this dish. It is clear there no meat, but it is so taste!
Sure, for many people the true factor they become vegetarian is their anxiety over animal welfare, and anyone who has goes to abatoir understand that this factor is very compelling. Anyway, even if you are encouraged by the nasty way that many animals are treated before they come on your dish, there are best ethical and moral factors for not eating meat. If you are going to cut out eat chips and meat, cheese and chocolate all day then you are not going to advantage from any of these. There are only a few techniques on how to wow your meat eating family and friends in the kitchen. These techniques will adjust your status from less of a freak into more of gourmet. Enjoy cooking!

Ingredients:
-3 / 4 cup. milk or orange juice
-1 Cup. flour
-1 egg
-2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
-2 Teaspoons baking powder
-2 Tsp sugar
-1 / 2 tsp salt
-orange zest
-1 vanilla
-Oil for frying
-1 banana
-some strawberries
-honey
cinnamon-

execution:
1. Mix all the liquid ingredients (egg, milk or orange juice, olive oil).
2. Mix the remaining solid material to another container and add to the mixture of liquids.
3. Add the lemon zest.
4. Stir to incorporate all ingredients.
5. Put one pot on fire with a little olive oil (about a tablespoon).
6. When you heat the oil put a tablespoon of the mixture and spread somewhat.
7. As soon as we see bubbles, we make a fast turn of the pancake, to cook the other side.
8. Just cook the pancakes and then you can to serve in this way: Place in a dish around 3 or 4 on top of each other. From top drizzle with honey, and put a few pieces of banana and strawberries (or other fruit) and sprinkle with cinnamon.

Here is the recipe:

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes

Materials

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 large potato, cut into cubes
• 1 eggplant into cubes
• 250 gr. small fresh mushrooms
• 2 tablespoons kari.br /> 150 ml vegetable broth
• 400 ml coconut milk canned
• Chopped parsley

Preparation: Heat the olive oil in a large, deep frying pan and add the onion and potato. Cover and let stand for 7 minutes on a low heat until the potatoes to begin to soften. Pour into the pan eggplant and mushrooms and let stand for another 8 minutes. Add the curry, broth and milk and cook for another 15 minutes. Serve over basmati rice and decorate with chopped parsley.

Heating and cooking

The greatest advantage of gas stoves is that they have more accurate and stable temprature than electric stoves. They also heat and change temprature instantly and not gradually like electric ones. Furthermore the electric stove and the pot must be completely flat to pass the heat on the pot and the food. Sometimes they are not and one part of the pot is hotter than an other one. As a result, it is easier to make uniform cooking using gas. Many people overcook or undercook food using electric stove. Of course it also depends on the quality of the electric cooker and the pots.

Ease to use and install

Electric kitchen are very easy to use and install. They are just plug and play. Gas is not so simple, except it is a small gas cooking unit. Especially if you want to use natural gas supply then you have to make special house installations. Also unless it is not new technology gas cooker it is more difficult to ignite the fire. Modern ones have electronic ignition.

Safety

All new technology and good quality cookers have high safety standards and are really safe to use either they are electric or gas. Anyway , I consider using electric cooker the possibilities of an accident is even smaller cause fire is fire. If the gas stove is old technology , it is a bit more dangerous especially for old people and children. After cooking you should allways turn the gas supply off, especially if you have children.

Cost

The price level to buy an electric or a gas cooker is allmost equal. Homebase electric cookers usually cost about 160 – 700 GBP according to the features and quality. How much electricity they use, depends on the energy class. An A+ energy class cooker spends quite less comparing to a C class. The price for a non professional gas cooker is also about 200 – 700 GBP. If you have natural gas installation the cost of using is quite less than electric one, but if you do not, then you will have to pay 300 – 1000 GBP for the installation.

So , what to choose? Difficult to decide. If there is natural gas installation at your house and you like cooking, maybe gas cooker would be a better choice. If you do not cook often and want something easy and simple, maybe electric cooker would be better. But whatever you choose, pat attention to have safety standards.

Most chefs prefer to cook with natural gas. Gas flame is
heating the pot in a more uniform and stable way

Potatoes with fruits and herbs is a very special gourmet taste. You can really impress everyone with it.

Ingredients:
3-4 medium potatoes
1 medium onion
1 carrot
4-5 dried figs soaked in water
2 cloves garlic
1 apple
1 coffee cup red wine
3 tablespoons olive oil
plenty of sage
1 bay leaf
parsley
thyme
cinnamon
paprika
salt

execution:
1. Wash the potatoes well as it is with the peel and chop. Do the same for the apple. Peel the carrot and cut into strips. Peel and chop the onions into pieces as in tomato and garlic slivers.
2. Put them all in a pan and add all the spices and all remaining ingredients. Add some water.
3. Mix well and put them to oven at 220 degrees for about one hour til it’s done. Stir occasionally and add if you need more water.

You can serve with a few drops of lemon and fresh parsley.

- What happens if you can not find all ingredients:

I think that it is very easy to find the basic ingredients that is potatoes. onion , carrots and figs. If you do not have the figs you should try to add something similar because it is quite important for the recipe as gives a special taste and juice to the potatoes. If you do not add them , then do not add so much carrot. You might have problem finding some of the herbs. If you do not find something of them like theme or parsley it will be ok, but try to have herbs in your kitchen especially if you are vegetarian! But even if you are not, herbs are very healthy and can offer many different and special options to the food.

The recipe is not difficult to be made even by an amatuer cooker. Some people will not like it very much and some others will love it. The taste is quite special. ANyway most people do like it very much , especially vegetarians! Try to make it at home!

Easy to make salad that is tasty, healthy and can also look very nice to offer it at your friends at home or when you cook for a romantic dinner

Let’s see a healthy and tasty salad that is also quite easy even for amateur cookers.

Ingredients:

• a few leaves of lettuce

• 1 Medium bunch arugula

• 1 / 2 apple

• 1 Green onion

• about 10 unsalted almonds or walnuts lightly crushed

• Virgin Olive oil

• balsamic vinegar

• salt

• sweet paprika

execution:
1. We wash very  well all ingredients and let them stay in a colander to stay without much water.
2. We cut using a knife the lettuce and arugula, and the onion in very small slices.
3. We cut the apple into cubes or thin slices
4. We put all ingredients in a large bowl  and drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.      5. Add salt and paprika.
6. Mix well and serve.

The execution is very simple as there is nothing that needs cooking or other special  skills.

The Ingredients are not difficult to find even at super markets. Of course this depends on what place of the world you live. In some countries olive oil is more expensive than perfumes. In this case you can use other kind of oil although it needs a very small quantity and my advice is to have some olive oil even if it costs much because it is by far the most healthy and also tastes good.

If you can not find arugula you can use only lettuce or replace arugula with something else that is not sweet. The other thing that can be a bit difficult to be found in some places in the world is the balsamic vinegar. In case you use a simple vinegar do not use very much. Balsamic has a more special taste.

The ideal would be to use a red apple but you can use a green one too. If you don’t like apples you can use an other fruit but not any kind of fruit. it has to be not sweet or soft. A nectarine could be a different option.

This salad has a lot of beneficial ingredients and can also a very tasty and  stylist when you invite your friends or someone special at your house. And also does not require a fully equiped kitchen. I used to make this salad very often when I was a student and I still do it quite often.  So , don’t be afraid to make it even if you are amateur cooker. It’s easy and needs not a lot of time.

Yes, red wine got a gigantic amount of good press via the “French paradox” some years back, and many, especially winemakers, argue that it’s the healthiest form of alcohol because of its high number of antioxidants. The fact of the matter, however, is that study after study shows that regular, moderate alcohol consumption in almost any format — merlot, martini, or Molson — has many of the same positive impacts. These range from improving heart health and cholesterol to even possibly aiding in the prevention of dementia in the elderly.

Still, because alcoholic beverages are made from varying ingredients, we were wondering about what nutrients might flow from beer taps as opposed to wine or whiskey bottles. It’s hard not to imagine that the beverages which happen to deliver the most non-alcohol nutrients might be the healthiest. Here are some of the nutrients found in regular and premium beers, in alphabetical order:

• B6
• Calcium
• Carbohydrate (of course!)
• Folate (a well known antioxidant)
• Magnesium
• Niacin
• Phosphorus
• Polyphenols (a similar amount found to those found in red wine)
• Potassium
• Protein (premium beers often have a surprising 1.6 grams)
• Sodium (okay, most of us could do with less of this)

It’s hard to imagine that it’s not slightly good to be getting most of these nutrients, which might not always be found in a glass of chianti or a shot of tequila. Even so, we have no doubt that people will be arguing for decades about which booze contains the most health benefits when consumed in small to moderate regular doses.

It’s interesting to remember that beer, unlike nearly all other forms of alcohol, really was once considered a form of nutrition. It’s true that the breakfast beer drunk in the distant past is not something we’d recognize if it ever flowed from contemporary beer taps, but there is some truth to the bartender’s cliche that “beer is bread.”

Come to think of it, few foods are healthier than a slice of 100% whole wheat bread. Perhaps a whole grain beer might have at least some of the same benefits.

Ingredients
12 slices sourdough dark bread, toasted
12 slices mashrooms
1 firm but ripe avocado, peeled, pitted and sliced
2 tomatoes, sliced
4 romaine lettuce leaves
1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dried sage
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/8 teaspoon fresh black pepper
1/16 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup plain soy milk
1 1/4 pounds chicken-style seitan dough or just chicken filet
olive oil or canola oil, for frying
3/4 cup Veganaise (available in health food stores)

The preparation is easy and similar with the fast food club sandwich. Good luck!

Pulses are the vegetable category where belong beans, lentils, Louvi, chickpea, soybean, and more. The pulses have a different color, shape, size and can be eaten green with the wrist after excision from the plant.

Legumes are rich in protein, potassium, folic acid, iron and magnesium. It is low in fat. It is rich in phytochemicals that help prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

The beans contain fiber that is not absorbed in the intestine. Facilitate the transfer of the contents of the intestines and fight constipation. Dietary fiber helps reduce blood cholesterol which protects the heart.

Soy is a unique form of pulses because the characteristics of the meat. Additionally it contains isoflavones, substances that may reduce cancer risk.

Peanuts are legumes. Contain fat, but the species is in monounsaturated fats that are among the most wholesome available. Peanuts when consumed in moderation is beneficial. The problem is that often consumed large quantities and added during the processing of salt hurts.

Pulses can be used in many ways, in soups, stews dishes, salads, mashed potatoes and more. When purchased it is preferable to have approximately the same size. ‘So the cook will be uniform.

Before cooking the beans thoroughly washed, cleaned because it may contain small stones, or some other fiber fruits are not good and should be removed. Several legumes, like beans, broad beans, the chickpea, the Louvi, need soaking before cooking. That is good to put in water overnight before cooking. Canned beans are also another good choice.