Vegan Recipe of the Week - Summer Sandwiches - The Italian SLT & Homemade Chutney

Vegusto Hot Salami with Tomato and Red Onion Chutney and Rocket on a wholemeal Ciabatta Roll. 

Chutney Recipe

Ingredients:

250g red onions, sliced

500g tomatoes, chopped

1 red chilli, deseeded and sliced

150g soft brown sugar

70ml red wine vinegar

Method:

Place all of the ingredients into a large pan and stir well. Bring to the boil and then simmer for 40 minutes until a jam-like consistency. Pour into a large sterilised jar and leave to cool completely. Keeps in the fridge for around 6 weeks.

The Sandwich

Ingredients:

A Ciabatta Roll

4 slices of Vegusto Hotsami

2 slices of beef tomato

A handful of rocket

A heaped tablespoon of chutney

Method:

Slice the Ciabatta roll lengthways in half.

Put the vegan salami slices on the bottom layer.

Add the tomato, then the rocket.

Finish with a generous layer of tomato and red onion chutney and put the top of the roll on.

Serve with mixed olives.

Eat and Enjoy!

VVx

Vegan Recipe of the Week - Stuffed Romero Peppers

This week's recipe is a lovely warming, filling meal with tastes inspired from the Mediterranean.

Stuffed Romero Peppers

Serves 2-3 

Ingredients:

2-3 Romero Peppers

1 small onion

1 clove garlic (or 1 tsp Lazy Garlic)

Half a red chilli (or half tsp Lazy Chilli)

1 small tin sweetcorn - drained

2-3 green beans

2 Tbsp salsa

2 Tbsp tomato puree

50g steamed rice

40g vegan mozzarella grated

dash Henderson's Relish (or vegan Worcestershire sauce)

Salt 

Pepper

Olive oil

2 tsp Italian herbs

1 tsp onion powder

Salad (to garnish)

Method:

Preheat the oven to 210C (190C Fan).

Cut the peppers in half lengthways and discard and seeds.

Drizzle the peppers with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and place in the pre heated oven for around 15 minutes whilst you prepare the filling.

Chop the onion, chilli and garlic roughly and add to a pan with a little olive oil. Stir fry for a minute or so and add the chopped green beans.

Stir fry for another 2 minutes and then add the sweetcorn.

Next add the salsa, tomato puree, onion powder and Henderson's and stir through.

Add the steamed rice to the pan and combine.

Take the peppers out of the oven and fill the peppers with the filling, pile it on generously.

Next sprinkle with grated vegan mozzarella and Italian herbs, drizzle with a little more olive oil and return to the oven for a further 10 minutes until the cheese is melted.

Remove from the oven and serve 1-2 pepper halves per person with a side salad garnish.

Eat and Enjoy!

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Big Vegan Love,

VVx

The Ordinary Vegan - Batchelors Super Pasta 'n' Sauce

The Ordinary Vegan for those new to the blog, is a weekly feature every Monday, sharing an ordinary supermarket or high street product, which just happens to be vegan. This week, is the turn of Batchelors Super Pasta'n'Sauce. The Tomato, Onion & Herb flavour is one of three vegan flavours, and this is sold at most supermarkets, grocery stores and corner shops. The other vegan flavours are Tomato & Mediterranean Veg and Tomato & Basil.

It is a dried packet meal, to which you add boiling water and a knob of vegan butter, and then cook on the hob or in the microwave. The meal takes around 10 minutes to make and is a good base to add other veggies, I often add a handful of olives, mushrooms or just grate some vegan cheese over and cracked black pepper. It serves one person as a meal or two as a side dish.

Alternatively sprinkle with chopped nuts, seeds or a little vegan parmesan. These packets are good to take travelling, camping, to work or just to keep in the cupboard for when you haven't got the time or energy to make a sauce from scratch. 

If home cooking is more your thing, come back tomorrow as every Tuesday is a brand new vegan Recipe of the Week.

Big Vegan Love,

VVx

Vegan Recipe of the Week - Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms with Parsley & Garlic 'Buttered' Corn

This week's Vegan Recipe of the Week is great as a starter or you can serve with corn on the cob and crusty homemade bread for a main meal.

Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms - serves 3

Ingredients:

3 large Portobello mushrooms

1 small onion

1 small carrot

1 Romero pepper

Vegan Mozzarella cheese - to taste

2 cloves garlic or 2 tsp lazy garlic

1 tsp lazy chilli

3 heaped tsp of shop-bought vegan pesto (or use my homemade recipe)

100g rice - steamed or boiled

3 Tbsp olive oil

2 Tbsp tomato puree

Salt, Pepper and Nandos seasoning to taste

If serving as a main course:

3 corns on the cob
2 heaped Tbsp vegan butter
1/2 tsp dried parsley
1/2 tsp garlic salt
homemade crusty bread and vegan butter

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200C.

Peel the onion, garlic and carrot. Chop the carrot in half lengthways. Add the mushrooms (top down), carrot and pepper to a roasting tray and drizzle with half of the olive oil and salt. Roast in the oven for around 15 minutes.

Dice the onion and garlic and add with the chilli into a medium hot frying pan with the remaining oil. Stir fry for around 5 minutes until onions are soft.

Add the tomato puree and stir, then add the steamed/boiled rice to the pan.

Stir for a few minutes. Then add the roasted carrot and pepper chopped up into the pan. Stir until combined and add seasoning to taste.

Take the rice mixture from the heat and spoon a heaped spoonful into the roasted mushrooms. On top of the rice mixture add a heaped teaspoon of pesto, and then grate some vegan mozzarella cheese over the top. Season with pepper and Nandos seasoning and bake in the oven for a further 10 minutes.

Parsley and Garlic 'Buttered' Corn

To serve as a main course, wash and peel the corns and leave to one side. Spoon the vegan butter into a ramekin and add the parsley and garlic salt and stir vigorously with a fork until herbs are thoroughly combined. Smear the butter all over the corns and wrap in tin foil. Bake in the oven at 200C for 30 minutes. Serve with warm crusty bread and butter.

Eat and Enjoy!

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Big Vegan Love,

VVx