10 Regular Recipes Turned Vegan | 10 Tips

By now we all are pretty much aware of the benefits of clean eating and most of us often keep wanting to include more plant-based foods in our diets once in a while. Now doing that isn’t as easy as one would expect it to be. Especially when trying to replace the same amount of proteins to keep up to your calorie counts. And that will definitely take you some effort. But to make this easy, here are 10 easy recipes turned plant-based to your rescue! Whether you are a vegan enthusiast or just keen on maintaining a healthy lifestyle in the long run by reducing your meat consumption, these 10 Regular Recipes Turned Vegan may just be of the right help to you!

1. Cream of Mushroom/Broccoli Soup

This is one of the easiest appetizers that you can turn plant-based just by substituting cream with cashew paste. And the rest of the recipe just follows. Just put the primary ingredient – boiled broccoli/mushroom, garlic cloves into the blender, strain them and put the output in the cooking pan. Add the stock, add the cashew cream and you’re pretty much done!

2. Tempura Vegetables

This is a very easy appetizer to please your vegan guests. Semi-boil your favourite vegetables, coat them in a perfectly seasoned tempura batter, deep fry them till golden brown and serve them with a honey-chilli dip. Could vegan starters get any better?

 3. Cheese Fondue

No, you don’t need to buy the super expensive vegan cheese that costs a bomb in an Indian market. You can totally make your very own fondue at home with unsweetened soy or almond milk and powdered seasonings. You can also add in some mushroom paste for extra flavour if you happen to be a mushroom fan. Your fondue will have never tasted better, I promise!

4. Classic Vegan Meatloaf

Mashed chickpeas, red beans with lots of seasoning and nutritional yeast instead of bread to make it gluten-free, this vegan meatloaf is way better than your regular meatloaf any day. And it’s also healthier!
Just make sure to keep the dough sealed in the loaf pan and refrigerated for about 5 days, for the yeast to do its trick, before sticking it into the oven.

5. Vegan Alfredo Pasta

The white sauce, Alfredo is made from butter, parsley, heavy cream, and minced garlic. Now here all you need to do is replace the butter with olive oil and substitute the heavy cream by making your own with vegetable oil, flour, and soy/almond milk. Your Alfredo will be ready in 15 minutes!

6. Vegan Meatballs

That’s right – vegan meatballs! And all you need to do is blend in well-seasoned ground soya chunks with a well-floured lentil binding, baked in a preheated oven or semi-fried in a pan to a get a similar feel as any other meatball, only make sure to season them well. Seasoning is very important when it comes to replicating meat items with vegan alternatives.

7. BBQ Pulled Pork

The key ingredient here is jackfruit. Cut them in long shredded pieces, cook them in a semi gravy BBQ sauce and place them in between your bread and you have your pulled pork sandwich or burger or however you like to have it!

8. Bangers and Mash

Sausages and mash potato. For this, you can either use the readymade veg sausages available in the supermarkets or you can make them at home using mushrooms, chickpeas or other close substitutes.

9. Poutine

French fries topped with fresh cream and brown gravy. Now you can easily replace the fresh cream with soy/almond/cashew-based yoghurt easily available in the market or you can ferment your own too. To get the brown gravy is a trick because the regular one is beef gravy. You cannot possibly replicate the same beefy taste and the closest you can get is by using mushrooms.

10. Cheesecake

Perfect cheesecakes are always hard to pull off anyway so a vegan one will definitely take you twice the effort. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do a lot if you are already well versed with your cheesecakes. Graham crackers, margarine (look for the ones that are made from refined vegetable oil and not the butterfat from milk ones) and salt – will do for the base. For the body, Cream cheese needs to be substituted with self-made cream that you can get from blending cashew nut paste and coconut oil. If you’re not a big fan of coconut you will be able to eliminate the coconut flavour with the vanilla extract that you’ll be adding to your cream cheese.

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