Easy, Fun Vegetarian Dish Recipes!

Easy, Fun Vegetarian Dish Recipes-

Our more plant-based switch is doing well! Feeling better, losing some weight and am hopeful this will be easier to sustain than I originally thought. We're doing a class, but more about that later... So...

I had to add this first! These spicy black bean cakes, from an early Katie Brown Entertains cook book, are an all time fave here! Everyone who's tried them loved them! Couldn't find it online, so I copied off my cook book page. The Tabasco is a must or you'd have bland beans. Here you go...

Spicy Black Bean Cakes

You'll need:

4 cups canned black beans well drained and rinsed, or start with dried black beans if you like. 

Half a cup of thinly sliced green onions or scallions. 

Half a cup of chopped roasted red bell peppers. 

6 TBL of flour, more for dusting

Two teaspoons of Tabasco sauce, this makes the recipe!!! 

Two teaspoons of salt, yes you need that much!

One teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper

6 tablespoons vegetable oil, 

1 cup sour cream (optional) and   2 tablespoons of chopped chives.

First- in a bowl lightly mash the beans, keeping some large pieces intact but creating some paste. Mix the beans together with the green onions, roasted red peppers, flour, Tabasco sauce and pepper. Form patties in your hand about half the size of a hamburger. Dust both size of the patties with flour. Heat oil in the pan over medium heat for about 3 minutes, until the oil is very hot. Fry cakes for about 5 minutes on each side, until the outside is crispy and fried. You can put in the oven to keep warm if you are making more. Top of sour cream mixed with chives, but this is optional if you're not doing dairy. Keeps well in the fridge!

Amish Baked Oatmeal

Another fave, and easy to substitute nut milk for dairy, and use an egg substitute. I made the original for Easter breakfast, it was all gone fast! Recipe here- Amish Baked Oatmeal  You could also use other kinds of fruits, like blueberries and other stone fruits. It's great because you add simple ingredients, put in the oven and walk away. Keeps well in the fridge as well.