Eggplant noodless lasagna June 17, 2009

Vegetarian lasagna with noodles has a huge bunch of calories that I have the feeling don’t make it a healthy food anymore. Using eggplant as noodles works pretty well and cuts calories.

Ingredients

1 eggplant

1 medium can of tomato sauce

1/2 pack of peas

1/2 pack of carrots

Procedure

Cut the eggplant in thin slices and bake it 300ºF for 30 min or until tender. Cover the bottom of a baking pan with bread crumbs. Make a layer of eggplant as you would do with pasta noodle. Cover with the mixture of tomato sauce, peas and carrots. Make another layer of eggplant on top. Bake at 300ªF for 30 min.

Yummy!

Portabella, peas and cheese June 17, 2009

So… I was wondering what to fill portabella mushrooms with… and I thought how creamy it would be to mix some peas and cheese with these savory mushrooms…

Ingredients

1 big portabella mushroom cap

3/4 cup of green peas

2 tablespoons low fat cream cheese

Procedure

Cook the grean peas in the microwave until tender. Blend with cream cheese. You can put it in the blender and puree it if you want. Fill the mushroom with the mix. Broil it in the oven at 400ºF for 20 min or until golden.

Chewy apple cake June 14, 2009

A yummy, tender but crunchy, tasty vegan apple cake

Ingredients:

2 small apples diced

1/4 cup walnuts

1/4 cup hazelnuts

1/4 cup raisins

4 tablespons soy milk

1 1/2 tablespoons egg replacer

4 tablespoons margarine

3/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup flour

Let’s bake:

In a bowl mix the margarine with the sugar and beat until creamed. Add the soy milk and the egg replacer. In another bowl mix the apples, walnuts and hazelnuts. To it, add the wet mixture and then the flour. Bake at 350ºC until golden (34-45 min).

You can try it warm from the oven… the chewy apple and the crunchy walnuts make it a delicious cake for dessert, breakfast or snack. Hope you like it!

Thumbprint strawberry jam vegan cookies June 13, 2009

Ingredients

200 g of margarine

2 cups of flour

1/2 cup of sugar

Jam for the filling

How is it made?

Beat the margarine and the sugar together until creamed. Slowly add the flour to the mixture. Put the dough in the fridge for 20 min until stiff. Make small dough balls and make an indentation in the center. Fill the indentation with jam. Bake for 15 min (until golden) at 350ºF /180ºC

Enjoy!