Anyone can write recipes that tastes good. Really, its not that hard, fill it up with sugar (for the sweet dishes) or salt (for the savory ones) and it’ll be tasty. Writing healthy recipes is a bit more challenging, as you need to be more creative: you need to compensate people’s long time addiction to the not so healthy ingredients that get into our meals on a daily basis from all over (school, work, restaurants, processed foods, where not).
Try to craft a vegan, healthy, and tasty food, and here you’ve raised the bar even higher.
But writing gluten free healthy vegan recipes, now that is just plain magic, you have to be so creative. That’s exactly where I found Heather’s YumUniverse new cookbook come into play. Luckily for me I do not have Celiac disease, so I don’t refrain from gluten altogether, however I do feel that in the western nutrition we eat too much gluten without even noticing it, so if I get a chance to avoid it at least some of the times I am happy about that. YumUniverse provide so many tasty options that you kind of forget that you thought gluten free, wholefoods, vegan dishes would be challenging..
Apart from the recipes, the other thing I loved about Heather Crosby’s YumUniverse book, is that she talks about the How, the Why and the What with regards to gluten free vegan nutrition, so you can get the whole philosophy and mindset of it.
Heather also includes actual advice about how do gradually transition to such a diet and perhaps more importantly how to sustain it, and when coming from someone who tasted her first salad at age of 19 (like Heather testifies about herself in the book) it makes you feel like anyone can do it.
Other things I found very useful in YumUnivese:
- The book talks in detail about several controversial ingredients that have a lot of debate with regards to them online and in the scientific words, like: B12, coconut oil, soy, and more.
- The book provides detailed meal examples for whole day recommended intake of iron, protein, calcium, and pretty much all vitamins and minerals that vegans are usually worried about..
- The book contains many practical tips for on the go salads and on the go breakfasts and other items along these lines.
- I guess this one goes without saying but the pictures and the styling is superb..
So to celebrate the book’s launch, I’m sharing one of my favorite recipes from Heather’s book, and am throwing a Giveaway for it!
To enter the giveaway simply write a comment on any of the recipes on my blog (other recipes, not this one!) and email me just noting which recipe you commented on to veganhightechmom@gmail.com.
The book will be kindly sent by BenBella Books. If won, US and Canada residents would get a hard copy, while other locations are open to join and will be sent a soft copy (digital) of the book.
Roasted Red Pepper & Tomato Bisque From YumUniverse + Cookbook Review and Giveaway
זמן הכנה
זמן בישול
זמן כולל
Rich and satisfying bisque , full of good for you ingredients
מאת: Heather Crosby
סוג מתכון: soup
מנות: 2-4
מרכיבים
- 2 red bell peppers, seeds and ribs removed, quartered
- 2 large tomatoes, quartered
- ½ cup onion, quartered
- 1–1 ½ teaspoons sea salt or more to taste
- Pinch of black pepper, plus more to taste
- 2 teaspoons rosemary leaves, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, sliced in half
- 1 ¼ cups veggie stock
- 1⁄3 cup cashews, soaked
הוראות הכנה
- Preheat oven to 325°F and grease a large baking dish with oil, or line with parchment paper. Place red bell peppers and tomatoes face down in baking dish with onion, sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper, and roast for 25 minutes.
- Remove baking dish and add rosemary and garlic and roast another 7 minutes.
- Transfer all ingredients to the blender and purée until smooth. Season with salt and additional pepper to taste. Serve warm, so heat up on the range if you need to.
- (psst! This also makes a nice cold soup. — Serve with Cashew Sauce (in the book) and Basil & Pepper Pine Nut Crisps (in the book) to take it all to the next level of tastiness. — Add cooked quinoa, buckwheat, lentils, brown or Forbidden rice for more texture.)
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Moran
1 תגובה
The give-away is amazing! And I’d love to try out this soup 😀