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Delicious Vegan Cooking Essentials
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items Ingredients that will improve and ease your plant-based cooking.
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Protein/Meat Replacement
Flavorings
Ready Made
Ingredients
Cooking snacks
Protein/Meat Replacement
Protein is easy to get on a vegan diet, especially when you reach for one of these. Use these to create dishes that you know and love, just without meat. Or experiment and create something new!
TVP is small dry granules that expand when soaked. Fry them in a frying pan with seasonings and oil to make minced meat. Great for tacos and Mexican food.
Textured Vegetable Protein TVP
Vital wheat flour is the protein part of wheat flour, and is used for making "seitan". Make all the different meat replacements you dream of with this. Google is your best friend here.
Vital Wheat Gluten Flour
Chickpea flour can be used for vegan Spanish omelette, the French bread socca, or in seitan recipes. It is 100% dried chickpea, and is a sneaky way of eating more legumes. Google will help you along. Try a vegan spanish omelette with onion and potatoes. It is so good.
Chickpea Flour
Scrambled egg replacer. This one is the most popular among vegans in the US.
JUST Egg
These soy curls are dry, and puff up when soaked. Marinate in whatever you prefer, and fry of on a pan. You will love these!
Soy Curls
Mung beans are the secret ingredient to a perfect breakfast scramble or omellete. EdgyVeg (theedgyveg.com/2021/07/05/mung-bean-egg-recipe) has a great recipe you can try out.
If you don´t like it, which I doubt, you can just use the beans in a soup or curry.
If you don´t like it, which I doubt, you can just use the beans in a soup or curry.
Mung Beans
Flavorings
These are great flavor enhancers that enables you to experiment and create great things in the kitchen.
Brings a true Umami punch to whatever it is added to.
Bragg, Liquid Aminos, 16 fl oz (473 ml)
Black Salt is used to impart that eggy flavor in dishes where it's wanted; deviled eggs, chickpea omelette, tofu scramble etc.
Black Salt - Kala Namak
Flavor your seitan, TVP or soups with this great seasoning. I find this to often be an ingredient in meat replacement recipes.
Better Than Bouillon
This ingredient will change your cooking. Liquid smoke adds smokiness, and i love putting it on tofu, or in bean burgers. The smokiness comes from water and oil that has been smoked, and is not an artificial flavour.
Liquid Smoke
Nutritional Yeast have become a go to ingredient for me, and many of my non-vegan friends have also startet using it.
It is packed with umami, and is an exeptional source for vitamin b and many minerals. It dump a few spoons into almost everything I cook.
It is packed with umami, and is an exeptional source for vitamin b and many minerals. It dump a few spoons into almost everything I cook.
Nutritional Yeast
I always buy soy sauce in big bottles like this one, because I use a lot of it… This one is a low sodium one. I put a dash of soy sauce in almost every savoury thing I make, as it adds a very nice umami flavour. Try a few teaspoons in your tomato sau...
Soy Sauce
Ready Made
Sometimes it is nice to focus on something else than cooking. These are foods that need no or little preparation. Enjoy!
Pancakes are always a winner! Top with syrup, fruit, or make some bacon bits with the TVP listed.
Pancake & Waffle Mix, 14 oz (397 g)
Chocolate cake ready mix! This one is gluten free as well, for those who prefer that.
Almond Flour Baking Mix, Chocolate Muffin & Cake, 11.2 oz (318 g)
Ingredients
These ingredients are often used in vegan recipes, and can really help you in making food you will love.
These are packets of the bacterias that make yoghurt. Add this to plant milk of your choice and flavor as you like; and in a few days you have your own Yoghurt!
Vegan Yoghurt Culture Starter
This is great for replacing eggs where it is needed in baking. It is not suited for scrambles.
Egg Replacer for Baking
Agar agar is a seaweed that serves as a vegan replacement for gelatine. Make stabilized whipped cream, mousses and gels with this.
Agar Powder
Cashew nuts has a very creamy texture when blended, and is amazing for making “cheesy” or creamy sauces. I even use cashews when making quiche. Blended with a little bit of water, it sets slightly firm when baked in the oven.
Cashews - Unsalted and Unroasted
Cooking snacks
Because every cook deserves something to snack on.
Great for that savory snack craving. Chewy and delicious 😋
Vegan Jerky
Protein cookie that tastes great. This web store is worth browsing thrugh, btw. It has a lot to offer.
Lenny & Larry's - Snack Size Cookie - Chocolate Chip