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Showing posts with label Pasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pasta. Show all posts

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Vegan macaroni cheese and garlic toasted turkish bread.


Macaroni

Sauce:
3 tablespoons of nutellex or vegan butter of choice
4 tablespoons of flour
3 tablespoons of tomato sauce
3 tablespoons of american mustard
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
5 tablespoons of nutritional yeast flakes
1 1/2 cups of soy milk

Melt nutellex over heat, add flour and whisk until completely blended in
add soy milk, tomato sauce, mustard, lemon juice and yeast flakes and whisk over heat until thickened.
If you would like this to be thicker add more flour, if you would like it thinner, add more soy milk - pretty easy concept.
Note: I like to add a few drops of yellow food colouring when feeding this sauce to omnis/children. It works as a placebo, the more yellow the sauce is, the more 'cheesy' it will taste.

Add this sauce to boiled macaroni elbows (shells are pictured, and I used 1 cup of pasta) and season with salt and pepper, if you would like to make this into a complete meal, like pictured, add 2 cups of chopped, steamed vegetables. This is a great way to get kids eating their vegetables! Pictured is steamed : Cauliflour, Peas, Corn, and Carrot, but you can add whatever is in the fridge.




Garlic toasted turkish bread:

2 turkish bread rolls, cut in half as you could cut a bun to add filling (I use the rather flat long ones, but anything goes)
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped/minced
1/4 cup of olive/vegetable oil
2 tablespoons of finely diced parsley or other herbs
2 tablespoons of sesame seeds (optional)

Combine oil, garlic, sesame seeds and herbs in a cup
Spoon and spread mixture over turkish bread onto the exposed cut part of the bread bun

toast in a sandwich press on on the pan until golden brown and starting to show signs of slight burning on each side - serve immediately

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Spinach and 'Ricotta' Cannelloni

This ended up being surprisingly tasty, all round favourite!


you will need:

10 + Canelloni tubes, cooked per packet instructions
2 cups of fresh spinach leaves
1 small onion - diced finely
tablespoon of garlic
1 tin of pasta sauce, I used a roast onion and garlic sauce.

Ricotta:
1 cup Firm tofu
1 tablespoon of salt
1 tablespoon of lemon
5 tablespoons of almond meal
3 tablespoons of nutrtitional yeast

White sauce
1 cup of soy milk
5 tablespoons of nuttelex
2 tablespoons of almond meal
3 tablespoons of flour

Preheat oven to 190C

To make Ricotta:
In a bowl, mash tofu and all ingredients into a ricotta like consistency and set aside. If not to your liking, add more nutritional yeast/lemon juice until you're happy with it.

To make white sauce:
1. Melt nuttelex in a pot and add flour, mix well into a roux
2. add milk and whisk vigorously until thickened - set aside.

Sweat onion and garlic in a pot and add spinach, cook until wilted.
Add spinach mix to ricotta and use this to stuff the canneloni, be gentle with the cooked shells

Compile your baking tin!
Lay a thin layer of pasta sauce on the bottom before you place your canneloni down, once you've put the Canneloni in fill with pasta sauce and top with white sauce.

Bake in oven for around 20 minutes - Enjoy