Monday, 19 February 2018

Vegan Receipe -` Spice Up Your Life`- Crispy Sweetcorn, Red Pepper & Jalapeno Corn Flour Vegetable Burgers


Delicious crispy vegetable burgers shown here with a fresh salad of cucumber ribbons and cucumber cubes.


This gorgeous plate of food can be eaten for lunch or dinner!


The flavours of the sweetcorn, onion and jalapeno peppers go really well together, a marriage made in heaven!


A tomato sauce would have also really complimented this meal well but I had run out of tomatoes! 

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To make the crispy vegetable burgers


You will need:

  • Sweetcorn x1 small can
  • Jalapeno pepper x1
  • Red bell pepper x1 small
  • Yellow corn flour (Juana brand, Maiz Cascado)
  • Black pepper
  • Pink salt or sea salt



Chop up the red bell pepper, white onion and jalapenos and add to a mixing bowl with  the sweetcorn. Just look at those fresh vibrant colours!


Next add in the yellow corn flour, salt, black pepper and water and mix the ingredients together to distribute the seasonings.


Add water gradually to form the dough. 


Once you have the desired consistency form them into a patty using the palm of your hands and should look like the ones below. They are then ready to be shallowed fried in a little oil on both sides until golden brown and crispy.


Final food porn pic and compilation of nutritional benefits...











Vegan Receipe - 'WalMato Dip´ - Tomato & Walnut Dip



Delicious creamy tomato and walnut dip that can be used as a sandwhich filler, topping for salads, stirred into cooked or raw pasta/spaghetti, used as a taco filler or served with vegetable batons. 

It would also be used a spread on crackers and rice cakes.


The walnuts tone down the habernero so the heat it's not as intense as when it's just a blend of tomato and habernero peppers.


To make this dip you will need:


○Baby plum tomatoes x10

○Habernero pepper x1
○Coriander 
○Walnuts x1 cup
○Garlic x4 cloves
○Pink Salt


Blend all the ingredients together until you have the desired consistency. You can add less tomatoes if you want the dip to be thicker. 

Enjoy the creamy goodness whoever way you choose!




A compilation of health benefits of the ingredients used.









Vegan Receipe - 'Bananarama' - Vegan Dessert - Just 1 Ingredient!



Who doesn't love ice cream?


This vegan ice cream is so simple it's child's play! 



The beauty is that is made from 1 ingredient so need to worry about 'extra' ingredients from store bought ice cream.



All you need is some ripe bananas, a freezer and a blender!



Chop and keep bananas in the freezer then whenever you feel like some ice cream take them out and blend with a few drops of water and voila you have vegan ice cream!



In the picture above I was content to have it on its own but you can jazz it up by adding fresh fruit, frozen berries or nuts.




For chocolate nice cream simple add a table spoon of cacao to x3 frozen bananas and voila you have chocolate ice cream as shown below.


What I love about bananas especially the ones in Costa Rica is that they are so sweet that you can use them in a sweet dish to replace the sugar!

 So for both instances of  this vegan ice cream no sweetners of any kind was needed!





Sunday, 18 February 2018

Vegan Receipe - 'Bean Feast' - Mexican Refried Bean Pizza Pie

A simple receipe for a super delicious bean feast meal which is a cross between a pizza and a pie.

Below is how the delicious bean feast pizza pie looked before I lovingly drenched it in avacado and garlic mayo.




Demolition in progress as I tucked into this yummy pizza pie.




This pizza was ridiculously delicious!  I felt like a new woman afterwards! If I smoked I would have lit up a cigarette ( referencing what men do after the deed)

It was the perfect mix of flavours! The avocado mayo acts as the cheese. I originally planned to use some vegan cheese but my closest Auto Mercado in San Jose had sold out and I didn't have time to look in the San Pedro branch.



Instead of a traditional tomato sauce base I used a red refried bean base. The brand I used was the Santa Cruz brand of refried beans pouch and I used one small pouch as shown below. If of course you plan to make the pizza for more than one person than a larger pack would be needed.


For the toppings you will need:


○Baby plum tomatoes x6

○Sweetcorn - small can half
○Chopped jalapeรฑos can x half
○Black beans x1 small  can
○Fresh Papaya Seeds (Optional)


To make the garlic avocado mayo sauce you will need:


○Small avocados x2

○Garlic x4
○Water
○Pink salt


Blend the ingredients until smooth and drizzle over the finished pizza.



To make the pizza pie base

Pour yellow corn flour into a mixing bowl.



Grind in some pink sea salt.





Grind in some black pepper.





Pour in some water little by little and form a dough. You can always add more water or cornflour if initially it's too wet or too dry.


 



You want a firm but moist dough. Once you have the desired texture you can then split into two.


 


Place the balls on a plastic surface (like a freezer bag/clean plastic carrier bag) and squish with your the palm of your hands to form the basic shape below. 



Once you have this basic shape use the palm of your fingers to flatten out and stretch the dough in all directions and build a ridge along the edge. The finished base should look like the one below.

The base is then ready to go into the oven.


The crispy crunch firm crust straight out of the oven!  Ready to be topped.


Close up of the crust, the nature of the yellow corn flour means that it does crack on the surface but stays crispy and firm and holds the weight of the toppings really well.


Below is the red refried beans ready to be applied to the pizza base,I heated it in the microwave for 2 mins to soften it as it had set in the pack. Heating it makes it easier to spread.


The toppings ready to go on the refried bean base includes fresh juicy baby plum tomatos, sweetcorn (canned), jalapeno, fresh papaya seeds, black beans and fresh white onions.



The base with the red refried beans added.



The first of the toppings to go on are fresh the tomatoes and onions.


The rest of the toppings sweetcorn, black beans and jalapenos are added creating this beautiful palette below. 



A generous amount of avocado and garlic sauce is then added randomly to the toppings creating this abstract masterpeiece!


With the hardwork out of the way it`s time to tuck in!


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More food porn pics and health benefits if yellow corn flour.


Close up of toppings covered in avocado and garlic sauce which acts like a cheese sauce instead of a traditional grated cheese topping.


A cute filling personal sized pizza.