Thursday, October 27, 2011

Vegetarian Recipes Tested From Kara's Kitchen



French Onion Soup

Homemade Onion SoupIngredients:                                           
1/3 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons all purpose or bread flour
8 cups veggie broth
Sea salt and cayenne pepper
1 loaf French bread
2 cups soy mozzarella
8 onions, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, minced


Directions:

(Yields 4-6 Bowls Easily)
Saute onions and garlic in oil over low heat until tender and golden yellow.
Sprinkle flour over onions, cook a few minutes more, browning the flour well.
Add veggie broth and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat, cover, and simmer gently for 20 minutes or so. Add salt and pepper, to taste.
Meanwhile, slice French Bread into 3/4-inch slices and soy butter both sides.
Toast slices on griddle until golden brown.
Ladle soup into an ovenproof bowl, add toasted bread and cover with soy cheese.
Place ovenproof bowl on a baking sheet lined with tin foil. Bake at 350 degrees F or 5 minutes under a hot broiler.
Note: To get a chicken style broth I sprinkle in nutritional yeast flakes or you can purchase veggie chicken style seasoning from health food store without the msg!! .

Time:  Prep: 5 Cook: 20 Total: 25min.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Vegetarian Recipes Tested From Kara's Kitchen

HOE CAKES with Molasses Soy Butter

Ingredients

  • 2/3 cup water
  • 1 teaspoon featherweight baking power
  • 1/2 teaspoon fructose
  • 1 cup finely ground yellow cornmeal
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/3 cup soy buttermilk (follow directions in Dumpling recipe)
  • 4 tablespoons butter, divided
  • Hot Molasses Butter, recipe follows

Directions

Combine the cornmeal, flour, salt, baking powder and fructose sugar in a large bowl. Combine the buttermilk and flour mixture. Add water slowly as needed to make batter a little thicker than pancake batter!! All water may not be needed!! Mix well.
In a large nonstick skillet over high heat, add 1/3 of the oil and heat until hot. Ladle 2 ounces of batter per cake into the pan, cook for 2 to 3 minutes, flip, and cook for 2 minutes more. Remove the cake to a towel lined plate. Repeat with the remaining batter, adding additional oil per batch. Arrange the hoe cakes on a serving platter and serve immediately with Hot Molasses Butter.

Hot Molasses Butter:

  • 1/2 c soy butter, room temperature (after making...store extra mixture for later use)
  • 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 tablespoon unsulphured, dark molasses
In a small bowl, beat the soy butter until light and creamy. Add the salt, cayenne, and molasses and mix well.
A Tip: If you have time, turn the butter mixture out onto a piece of plastic wrap and form it into a cylinder. Wrap tightly and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. Slice into 1/4-inch rounds and serve with Hoe Cakes...Or Just Spread On While Hot!! Oh So Great!!

Vegetarian Recipes Tested From Kara's Kitchen


DUMPLING RECIPE!!

You Must Forgive Me!! I Didn't Measure When I Made These Dumplings.. So Here Goes!! ...Ha Ha!! ..If I Can Remember Correctly...

2 C Bread Flour

1 Tablespoon featherweight baking powder or any without aluminum!

Pinch Of fructose and pinch of sea salt!

1 C of my version of vegan buttermilk! ...Just Soy Milk With One Tablespoon Of Lemon Juice!

Note: (Sometimes When I Have The Tofutti Sour Cream I Use That With Some Added Lemon Juice!! ...Might Need a few tablespoons Of water as you go!! ..or not)

Melt 1/4 c of soy butter

In Bowl add all dry ingredients!! In Another Mix all wet! ...adding melted butter last! ..Pour Wet mixture into Dry! Fold gently until combined! ...Using a Tablespoon Spoon ...drop oval dough into your broth!

For your Broth you may use Vegetable Broth mixture! ...but I made my own using ...Water, Nutritional Yeast Flakes! and Herbal Seasonings! ...Added A Tablespoon Of Soy Butter and One Tablespoon Of Olive Oil! Some Sea Salt ...and Cayenne Pepper! ...Let Simmer For 20-30 Min. Until Tender and Eat! ... I was Raised On The Flat Dumplings! ...Same Dough but more flour added until manageable and flatten and cut into strips!!... Don't Over Handle! ...I Pray This Will Help! Never Measured This While I Was Making...Just Grew Up Doing It! Ha Ha! Enjoy!... Oh! Remember! ...Don't Have heat Too High!! You Don't Want To Boil Them! ...Simmer Slowly!! Nice!!