This week we visit the Netherlands and cook a vegan version of boerenkool stamppot – mashed potatoes with kale. This simple one pot recipe is a great comfort food and a fun way to ramp up your mashed potato game. Read on for some background on Dutch cooking or jump […]
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Here is the recipe I followed to make mula ko achaar – daikon pickled with mustard seeds in oil. It was served along side dal bhat tarkari in the main post for Nepal. In Nepali cooking, pickles have a very important role and they are vegan to boot! Yum Achaar […]
Today we pay a visit to Nepal where we cook the Nepali classic dal bhat tarkari: lentils, rice and vegetable curry. For once, we don’t have to make any form of vegan version since this popular dish is vegan by default*. Nepal also happens to be one of the countries […]
Our first stop in Northern Europe brings us to Latvia where we try a Latvian vegan recipe called rupjmaizes kārtojums, or Latvian ambrosia. Based on the ever-important Latvian dark rye bread, rupjmaize, this dessert greatly resembles the more familiar trifle but with two Latvian twists. Read on to learn a […]
Rupjmaize is sweet and sour Latvian rye bread flavoured with caraway seeds and molasses. This vegan Latvian recipe makes a loaf of sourdough rupjmaize.
This week, we make our first stop in Southern Africa as we visit South Africa. We cook a South African vegan dish which is a real classic comfort food: samp and beans (isistambu in Zulu and umngqusho in Xhosa). Rich and creamy and seasoned with fried onion and curry powder, […]
It’s time to pay our first visit to Micronesia on our global, vegan adventure. We stop by Nauru and turn their national dish into a vegan Nauru recipe: coconut crusted cauliflower. Yum Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation (the world’s third smallest country, after the Vatican and Monaco [1]). […]
Why do you dip pretzels in high pH, corrosive lye before baking them? How is this related to brown onions and black garlic? What is the Maillard reaction and can we really hack it? Yum When making pretzels, a simple dough is shaped into the traditional pretzel knot and dipped […]
We have reached Guatemala on our vegan world tour and it is time to make chuchitos, a smaller version of Guatemalan tamales. In this delicious Guatemalan, vegan recipe, a sauce made from toasted sesame seeds and roasted vegetables is wrapped in corn dough and steamed to perfection. Yum Guatemalan cuisine […]
Today’s stop on our vegan world tour brings us to Turkey where we cook a delicious vegan Turkish recipe. Here I have veganized the popular lahmacun, a thin crust Turkish pizza or flatbread. In place of the traditional meat, I made a paste from lentils and bulgur inspired by the […]