Rich and Creamy Raw Mushroom Soup

As the temperature rises, raw creations occupy a shining spot on the dinner table. My dear friend Susan thoughtfully sent me a gift of raw in the form of an elegant cookbook that celebrates the beauty of vibrant raw creations that can be made with ease. Everyday Raw Express by Matthew Kenney is certainly worth your attention. The presentation of the dishes within the covers is gratifying, but even better is using the ideas as a template for vibrant nourishment. And the book uses only vegan friendly ingredients too.

As I am a mushroom fiend, one of the first recipes I attempted was this raw mushroom soup. I by no means can face up to nibbling on raw mushrooms as I prepare a dish, so why no longer a soup with humble seasonings and a few nuttiness? This as a substitute unusual earthy soup turned into a lovable starter for my Asparagus Pesto Lasagna.

This is my contribution to No Croutons Required this month. The subject matter for May is little bites. We are searching out appetizer soups and salads to begin your meal. I am also sharing with Jac's bookmarked recipes and Ricki's Wellness Weekend.

More mushroom soups you're certain to enjoy from Lisa's Kitchen:

Hungarian Mushroom Soup

Mushroom Cheddar Cheese Toasts

Paneer Mushroom Egg Muffins

Thai Mushroom Soup with Coconut

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Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bites

I determined the concept for these easy, tender and wet, and wholesome gluten-free peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies at the same time as browsing on Facebook one day and ultimately found out that the recipe became created through Erin at Texanerin Baking. Egg-loose and flour-loose too, they contain cooked chickpeas that end up like a flour-based totally dough after they're whizzed up in a meals processor with other ingredients. The dominating flavor is the peanut butter combined with the chocolate ensuing in a nice instead unspoken sweetness from the presence of the raw honey. Do I really need to observe that one of life's sweet pleasures is peanut butter paired with chocolate?

They sincerely are heavenly and guilt-free too, regardless of the rich flavor experience that awaits you. If you were lucky sufficient to develop up in a household where selfmade cookies had been frequently made, you will be nostalgic for the ones bits of raw cookie dough that you sneaked at the sly before you had been granted permission to lick the bowl. Again, no want to feel responsible approximately snacking on a number of the dough even before they go into the oven. Nothing awful here at all. These cookies stay wet in a sealed box for several days too, despite the fact that retaining them round for several days isn't all that possibly.

More peanut butter delights you're certain to revel in from my kitchen:

Cayenne Peanut Butter Cookies

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

Gooey Peanut Butter Brownies with Carob Chips

Peanut Butter Carob Balls

Mung Beans in a Golden Karhi Sauce

One of my favorite dishes from Yamuna Devi's gospel of Indian cooking, Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking is her tender chickpeas simmered in a golden karhi sauce. I've more than a few favorites from the book that often appear on my table, yet each and every time I browse through the 800 pages of culinary Indian bliss, I find yet another recipe that I can't believe I haven't tried … I have owned this treasured cookbook for about 20 years. Then there is the pleasure of revisiting some of my favorites from the book and tinkering with the recipes and my initial adaptations.

Truly, if I needed to select simply one cookbook to maintain out of my tremendous collection, this would be that wilderness island desire. I'd desire for a truckload of legumes, grains and spices to go together with it and clean produce from the isle. As I have stated within the past, this became my earliest introduction to Indian cooking quickly once I became a vegetarian. It spread out a whole new nourishing and interesting culinary global to me that I preserve to cherish and explore.

This time round, earthy mung beans are simmered in a tangy yogurt sauce. This recipe called for sprouted mung beans, which I am sure would were simply ideal, however I failed to plan in advance ? Mung bean sprouts take 2 to 3 days of training ? And so got here up with a model the use of complete mung beans that I soaked overnight after which simmered till gentle.

Karhis are yogurt primarily based dishes that are typically served with rice. Often they include cooked or sprouted legumes, now and again dumplings and vegetables. This one is on the tangy aspect of the spectrum and I went with a thicker gravy this is popular in Northern India. Depending at the yogurt you use, a karhi sauce might be slightly candy, thinner, with a consistency like a soup or a thick gravy. I experimented with the original recipe and got here up with this precious vegetarian primary that I served with buttered Jasmine rice. You may additionally want to take into account serving up yellow lemon rice with fried cashews as a aspect for some extra aptitude and tart taste.

More mung beans dishes you're sure to experience from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Indian-Style Spicy Mung Beans (Moong Dal)

Mung Bean Paneer

Spicy Mung Beans

Sour Mung Bean Soup

Creamy Herbed Potato and Green Pea Salad

Spring is toddling into summer with faltering steps this year, however the respites of warm sunny climate alongside the manner bring to thoughts the comforts and pleasures of summer eating. Soups and hearty meals deliver way to salads and mild fare that can be transported to the patio, warming ingredients deliver way to clean plates, and dried and canned items provide manner to clean herbs and convey. This easy salad of steamed toddler potatoes, green peas and fresh herbs tossed in a creamy and colourful Dijon mustard dressing is simply the component to give you a taste of summer season consolation meals ? In particular if you may get your fingers of clean lawn peas, despite the fact that frozen peas can even make for a lovely salad.

The event for serving this dish become an opportunity to try some Nasoya vegan "nayonaise" that became sent to me to sample. Now I have a tendency to stay faraway from unfermented soya products typically, however I've in no way been overly keen on "conventional" jarred mayonnaise either and, thinking about how hardly ever I use mayonnaise in any case, I figured it turned into well worth a strive. First, I attempted it with my well-known vegetarian Caesar salad because it's a classic that I figured might be a truthful assessment of the unfold. Next, I desired a potato salad and used it inside the dressing with suitable consequences. Though it smelled a touch unexpected after I opened the jar, the flavor became mellow and pairs well with more potent flavors for a unbroken taste enjoy. My verdict is this is stands up properly to shop-offered canola-based totally mayo and it is vegan-pleasant and gluten-unfastened too, crafted from expeller-pressed oil and fortified with Omega three.

Note: I received complimentary samples of the Nayonaise for consideration. The opinions expressed here are my own and I am receiving no compensation for writing this post.

More potato salads you're certain to enjoy from Lisa's Kitchen:

Warm Baby Potato and Asparagus Salad

Potato Radish Salad

Mexican-Style Potato Salad with Avocado and Jalape?O

Potato Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing

Mung Dal Kitcheree

A kitcheree is a conventional dish originating in North India that includes legumes and rice and often veggies. For individuals who revel in Indian creations, that is a one-pot meal that may not take you long at all to prepare. Split mung beans are an mainly clean legume to digest, making this a nourishing and restorative meal. I've usually loved the specific sweet and earthy aroma and taste that these little gemstones impart to a dish. Here they're all nestled in with rice after simmered together with some spices and coconut milk.

To fill out the meal, serve with a vegetable facet and some Indian savory flatbreads. I served it with butter paneer masala and a spicy potato and green bean salad.

Other mung bean dishes you are sure to enjoy from my vegetarian kitchen:

Mung Bean Paneer

Mung Tamarind Dal

Indian Sour Mung Bean Soup

Indian Style Spicy Mung Beans (Moong Dal)

Jerk Chickpeas

Growing up I in no way did much care for bird even earlier than I have become a vegetarian, and my dad and mom typically did now not put together ethnic dishes, so I by no means did try the classic Jamaican jerk hen. But now with plenty of ethnic cooking at the back of me, I observed that the seasonings which are usually utilized in jerk spicing ? Scotch bonnet peppers, allspice, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg ? Appealed a amazing deal to me, and I concept I could attempt a vegetarian version with cooked chickpeas instead of hen. I wasn't quite positive what to anticipate as normally I am more at home with Indian spicing, however I went with my instincts after a chunk of studies and become surprised and thrilled with just how accurate the end result changed into. Hot, sweet and bitter, tangy and zesty, this chickpea recipe is now certainly one of my pinnacle favorites.

These easy-to-make jerk chickpeas are made at the range pinnacle, however you may want to remember a baked model. Be very cautious with the Scotch bonnet peppers on this recipe ? The conventional pepper in jerk seasonings, they're approximately as warm as habaneros, and in case you're no longer used to a awesome deal of heat then just use half of a pepper or alternative serrano or jalape?Os for a milder kick.

I served those chickpeas wrapped up in selfmade sweet potato rotis for one of the maximum fulfilling meals I even have loved in some time. My dining partners agreed too.

Other Caribbean recipes from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen you could revel in:

Caribbean-Style Black Bean & Delicata Squash

Caribbean Sweet Potato Soup

Vegetarian Jamaican Patties

Sweet Potato Roti

Indian flatbreads regularly make their look on my dinner table and simply I could eat them everyday, whenever of day. They are perfect for breakfast or brunch with some chutney and they're an ideal accompaniment to curries ? As I consume a variety of dal and vegetable curries, it is no surprise I crave savory breads along with those roti as often as I do. In this situation, I desired a wrap for some highly spiced jerk chickpeas and with the sweet potato filling in these flatbreads, the aggregate changed into best. Rotis are not simplest loved in India and in the course of Asia, however are also popular within the Caribbean. To my pleasure, the roti rolled up flawlessly without breaking apart. Feel loose to add greater spice to the breads in case you want to heat matters up further.

As with most unleavened savory Indian cr?Pes and flatbreads, these are definitely easy to make however the system is extra seamless when you have a helper in the kitchen even as frying up the breads. The rotis didn't take long in any respect to brown up and by the point I were given every other rolled out and geared up for the pan, I could have been strolling a quick marathon in the kitchen to preserve up the tempo. But a helper isn't always necessary, as you can roll out some in advance of time or take away the pan from the heat in short if you start to fall in the back of. Do maintain the dough and any rolled out rounds blanketed with a clean kitchen towel so that they do not dry out.

Other Indian flatbreads you're sure to enjoy from Lisa's Kitchen:

Besan Roti

Fenugreek Dosa

Fenugreek Chapatis

Paratha Stuffed with Sweet Potato and Potato