Down with "Olivier" - to borrow vegans at your holiday table

Veganism excludes all animal products, even cheese and honey, but because vegan Christmas table at first glance may seem unappetizing spectacle. Irina Mikhno talked to the chief "Beetlejuice Cafe" Alexey Troitsky and learned how to cook hummus, Lokshina, vegetable strudel, green asparagus in teriyaki sauce and other Christmas vegan dishes.Eggplant in Italian

• Eggplant-1 PC.
• Tomato — 2 PCs.
• Onion (white) 1 PC.
• Garlic — a clove
• Tomato juice — 2 cups
• Rosemary — to taste
• Salt/sugar /pepper — to taste

First, prepare sauce: onions and garlic cut into small cubes, fry in vegetable oil, cover them with tomato juice, add the spices, salt and sugar, boil five minutes, then leave the sauce aside and begin to engage the eggplant. Eggplant and tomatoes cut into rings and salt them on both sides. In a deep container, like a baking dish, alternately arrange the eggplant and tomato. Cover with the sauce and leave in the fridge for a few hours. The dish is served cold.

Life hack: eggplants need to roast in the pan is almost dry because they quickly absorb fat. Instead of tomato juice, you can use any product where there are tomatoes except for ketchup. Hummus

• Chickpeas (garbanzo beans) — a glass
• Garlic — a clove
• Cumin — to taste
• Coriander — to taste
• Turmeric — to taste
• Salt/ pepper — to taste
• Water/vegetable broth — 4 cups

Chickpeas pre-soaked for 10-12 hours. After you boil the chickpeas in water or vegetable broth to complete the cooking (time it takes half an hour). Drain the water and grind in a blender puree the peas in the ground. Add chopped garlic, cumin and coriander (all spices it is better to buy whole and grind them yourself in a coffee grinder). The consistency of the hummus should be like thick cream. The dish is served with white or brown bread, or with pita bread and fresh vegetables.

Life hack: after soaking the chickpeas can be peeled from the thin film.Lokshina (chips lentil-rice mass)

• Lentils 150 gr.
• Rice — 150 gr.
• Curry — to taste
• Salt/ pepper — to taste
• Garbanzo bean flour

Lentils and rice grind in a blender, then add all the spices, salt and flour. Knead until smooth to make a dough as for pancakes. Then in a large skillet in vegetable oil fry on both sides of the pancakes with a thickness of maximum 1 mm. After this, allow the pancakes to cool, cut them into long strips, which fry in deep fat (if not deep-frying, pour oil into the pan so that it covers the product and fry until crispy). Chips can be served with any sauces absolutely.

Life hack: if the oil in the deep fryer starts foaming, then it is time to change. Fried zucchini

• Zucchini zucchini — 2 PCs.
• Garlic — a clove
• Lean mayonnaise — to taste
• Flour
• Salt/ pepper — to taste

Clean the squash from the skin and innards, then cut them into thick slices at least 1 cm Salt and pepper, dip them in flour and fry in vegetable oil. Then the two sides were coated fried zucchini sauce vegan mayonnaise and chopped garlic and give the dish to cool.

Life hack: salt you can pour into the flour — so it is better absorbed into the squash.Vegetables in batter

• Broccoli — half Kachan
• Cauliflower — half Kachan
• Zucchini — 1 PC.
• Pepper — 1 PC.
• Leeks — 1 PC.
• Garbanzo bean flour
• Salt/ sugar — to taste
• Soy sauce
• Starch
• Leavening agent

For meals, you can use any vegetables that are cut into small cubes, 2 cm long, broccoli and cauliflower disassemble into florets. Then separately make the batter for the batter: mix the flour, water, starch and baking powder dough that turns out to be a dense mass, which can very well stay on vegetables, how is the whole thing will need to have time to send in the fryer. Food is good to use different sauces, especially good with cranberry.

Life hack: need to use starch to make the dough became crispy and the baking powder to porosity and the lightness of the dough. To avoid the effects of dish-sponges, vegetables can not be dipped in cold oil. To understand that the oil is hot will help formed on its surface ripples. Vegetable strudel

• Flour
• Salt
• Water
• Olive oil — 2 tbsp
• Baking powder
• Breadcrumbs

The dough: pour the flour mound into a deep container, this slide make a hole and pour into it the olive oil, add salt, sugar and baking powder. Mix the dough to a state of crumbs. The resulting mixture spread in a plate and it make a hole, add water and begin to knead the dough.

Filling: Cut into long wedges with the vegetables and roast them in the oven or in a pan in vegetable oil. Then go back to the dough: roll out a thin rectangle in the middle put the filling and roll up to form strudel. Put the dish in the oven for 30 minutes at a temperature of 160. The finished strudel cut into pieces and laid out on a large plate.

Salad of fresh vegetables with tofu (Greek for vegan)

• Pepper — 1 PC.
• Tomato — 1 PC.
• Cucumber — 1 PC.
• Tofu — 200 gr.
• Green salad (lettuce, iceberg)
• Olives — half of the banks
• Corn — half-banks
• Blue/onion
• Herbs of Provence/Mediterranean herbs — to taste
• Balsamic vinegar
• Olive oil

Cut all the vegetables and cheese in large cubes. Without mixing, put all the ingredients in a bowl. Sprinkle top with corn, sliced in half black olives and chopped onions. Sprinkle with herbs and pour olive oil.

Life hack: to give tofu the taste, leave it in soy sauce or balsamic vinegar for an hour. French vegetable salad (vegan "Olivier")

• Potatoes — 1 PC.
• Carrot — 1 PC.
• Prunes — half Cup
• Apple — 1pc.
• Cucumber (salt/fresh) — 2 PCs.
• Corn/green peas — half. banks
• Mayonnaise
• Bow — 1,4 head
• Salt/ pepper — to taste

Cook the potatoes and carrots, then peeled them and cut into medium size cubes. Then fry in a pan or we scald warm water onion, peeled and cut Apple. All the ingredients are mixed and dressed with vegan mayonnaise.

Life hack: the Apple doesn't turned black, it should be cut at the last moment before dressing the salad. Salad of carrots and beets, prunes and nuts

• Carrots – 1 PC.
• Beets – 1 PC.
• Prunes – floor. glass
• Walnut – 1,4 Cup
• Salt – to taste
• Spices to taste (e.g., cloves)

Soak for an hour prunes, beets boiled in their skins. Then grate carrots and boiled beets on a grater to get the form of a carrot in Korean, finely chop nuts, then mix all ingredients, add prunes, salt, sugar, and cloves. The dish is ready.

Life hack: to when cooked beet lost color and remained sturdy in water you have to add vinegar and sugar. And all products are stained the color of beets, it is first necessary to mix with vegetable oil.Green asparagus with mushrooms in teriyaki sauce

• Asparagus 500 gr.
• Mushrooms
• Soy sauce – half Cup
• White wine – 1 Cup
• Water – 1 Cup
• Starch – tbsp
• Garlic – a clove
• Onions – small onion
• Sugar – tablespoon

The day you start preparing the sauce: mix the wine and soy sauce, add sugar, put the mixture on the fire and bring to a boil. Then diluted in water starch. Boiling the wine-soy mixture turning a spoon into the funnel, into the middle pour in the starch. All this stir about two minutes the mass thickens, and the sauce is ready. Next, boil the asparagus in salted water, cool it down and remove her film. Mushrooms, clean peeled and cut in big pieces. Then cut the garlic and onion, fry them in oil. To them add the asparagus and pour all this sauce. The dish is ready to serve hot.

Vegan cabbage rolls

• Cabbage — 1 head
• Carrots — 1 PC.
• Onion — 1pc.
• Celery — 1 pod
• Rice — half Cup
• Garbanzo bean flour

Boil and cool the rice. Then cook the cabbage: cut out the stalk, taking care not to damage the head and leaves. In a deep dish boil salted water and throw back our head. After the upper leaves have started to break away and crumble, cook the cabbage for another two minutes and remove from heat. Removes 5-6 leaves from the cooked cabbage, the rest of the cabbage and cut into strips. Onions and celery also cut into strips, carrots grate on a grater and fry it all in vegetable oil. Then add to the mixture the chopped cabbage, gram flour and rice. After taking a cabbage leaf in the middle, add the stuffing and wrap the envelope. Send the envelopes in a large pot and simmer in tomato juice, sauce or in soy milk.

Ginger tea

• Ginger root
• Lemon
• Carnation
• Pepper
• Cinnamon
• Cane sugar

Peel the ginger skin and grate it on a fine grater, then throws it in cold water and leave for 30 minutes. In the same water add all the remaining ingredients and the tea is ready.

Source: kyky.org/mag/life/doloi-olivie-chto-ghotoviat-vieghany-na-novyi-ghod