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Starters & Dips

• Garden Stack

• Apple Butter

• Walnut Butter

• Pumpkin Soup

• Stuffed Tomatoes (Tomates Rellenos)

• Tomato and Lentil Soup

• Creamy Mushroom Soup

• Corn Soup

• Tom Yam Soup

• Cashew Cheese

• Banana Sauce

• Tzatziki Dip

• Bruschetta

Garden Stack

Ingredients:

• 1 can baked beans
• 1 can kidney beans
• ¼ cup olive oil
• 1 tsp dried parsley
• 1 piece garlic
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 cups lettuce (shredded)
• 5 tomatoes (chopped)
• ½ cup onion (chopped)
• 1 cup black or green olives (sliced)
• 1 avocado (diced)
• 1 cup cashew cheese*

Procedure:

1. Heat beans in a saucepan with olive oil, parsley, garlic, salt, tomatoes.
2. Place remaining ingredients in individual serving bowls.
3. Layer ingredients on individual pales with chips first, followed by hot bean mixture and remaining ingredients in order given. Add toppings of your choice.
   
   *Refer cashew cheese recipe.
   
   
   

Apple Butter

Ingredients:

• 2 small apples
• ½ cup pitted dates
• ½ cup water
• Cooked rice or oats (optional)

Procedure:

1. Wash and core apples
2. Dice and cook with dates till apples tender
3. Blend until smooth
4. Add cooked rice or oats if thicker consistency is desired and blend.
   
   
   
   

Walnut Butter

Ingredients:

• 1 pack of silken tofu
• 40gr. walnuts
• 1 clove of garlic
• Salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Grind the walnuts, crush the garlic and mix with the silken tofu and salt.
2. Mix all the ingredients well. Once its smooth, keep in the refrigerator.
3. Spread on bread or biscuits and enjoy!
   
   

Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients:

• 200g pumpkin (peeled and washed)
• 1 ½ cup water
• 10g dhal powder
• 2 tbsp spring onion
• Salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Cut pumpkin into cubes and boil until soft
2. Add dhal powder and stir, simmer for a further 3 minutes
3. Blend until smooth and creamy
4. Serve in a soup bowl and garnish with spring onion

Stuffed Tomatoes (Tomates Rellenos)

Ingredients:

• 8 small tomatoes, or 3 large ones
• 4 pieces of hard tofu (for scrambled tofu)*
• 6 tablespoons Vegennaise
• Salt and pepper
• 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
• 1 tablespoon white breadcrumbs, if using large tomatoes

* See Breakfast recipes

Procedure:

1. Skin the tomatoes, first by cutting out the core with a sharp knife and making a '+' incision on the other end of the tomato. Then place in a pan of boiling water for 10 seconds, remove and plunge into a bowl of iced or very cold water (this latter step is to stop the tomatoes from cooking and going mushy).
2. Slice the tops off the tomatoes, and just enough of their bases to remove the rounded ends so that they will sit squarely on the plate. Keep the tops if using small tomatoes, but discard those large tomatoes. Remove the seeds and insides, either with a teaspoon or small, sharp knife.
3. Mix the scrambled tofu with the vegennaise, salt, pepper and parsley. Stuff the tomatoes, firmly pressing the filling down. If keeping to serve later, brush them with olive oil and black pepper to prevent them from drying out. Cover with cling film and keep.
   For large tomatoes, the filling must be firm enough to be sliced. Add white breadcrumbs until the mixture reaches the consistency of mashed potatoes.

Tomato and Lentil Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 large onion
• 1 cup lentils
• ¼ cup olive oil
• 1 clove garlic
• ¼ cup tomato paste
• Bay leaves
• 1 liter water
• Salt and ground pepper (optional) to taste

Procedure:

1. Chop the onion finely. Rinse lentils in cold water; drain well.
2. Heat oil in a large heavy-based pan. Add onion and garlic, stir over low heat for 10 minutes.
3. Add tomato paste, chillies, bay leaves, lentils and water and bring to boil. Reduce heat, simmer, covered for 30 minutes or until lentils are soft.
   Remove chillies and bay leaves; discard. Add pepper to taste.

Procedure:

1. Blend all ingredients until smooth and consistent. Cook in non-stick pan to thicken.
   
   
   

Creamy Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 stalk celery chopped fine
• 1 onion diced
• 1 cup mushrooms
• 7 cup water
• ½ cup cashews
• ½ cup oat flower
• 2 tsp salt
• ¼ tsp basil
• ¼ tsp. garlic powder
• 2 tsp. chicken style seasoning
• ½ cup mushrooms, chopped

Procedure:

1. Blend all ingredients.*
2. Add ½ cup mushroom pieces.
3. Cook for 10 minutes on low heat.
   *Except mushrooms

Corn Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 can corn kennels
• 2 cups soy milk
• Nutritional yeast
• Corn starch
• Salt

Procedure:

1. Blend corn to make a smooth paste
2. Add paste in boiling soy milk and stir until boil
3. Add corn starch to thicken, continue to stir
4. Add nutritional yeast and salt to taste
    

Tom Yam Soup

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of water
• 1 stalk of lemon grass (serai) (cut into 4 inches long pieces and bruised slightly to release flavor)
• 3-4 kaffir lime leaves (torn into small pieces)
• 2 tbsp of Tom Yam paste
• 1 cup of button mushrooms
• ¼ cabbage
• 2 Carrots
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 inch piece galangal (lengkuas)
• 2 tbsp lime juice
• ½ cup cilantro leaves

Procedure:

1. Boil water in deep pot
2. Add cut lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, sliced mushrooms and chili
3. Add vegetables (carrots, cabbage and/or cauliflower)
4. Add Tom Yam paste
5. Add lime juice
6. Add ½ cup cilantro leaves

7. Remove lemon grass stalks and kaffir lime leaves
   *Serve hot.
    

Cashew Cheese

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup water

• ½ cup red capsicum

• 3 tbsp yeast flakes

• 2 tbsp sesame/sunflower seeds

• 1 tbsp. chopped onion

• 1 tsp salt

• ¾ cup cashew nuts

• ¼ cup lemon juice

• ½ tsp chopped garlic

Procedure:

1. Blend all ingredients until smooth and consistent.

2. Heat in non-stick pan to thicken.
    

Banana Sauce

Ingredients:

• 3 Ripe bananas

• ½ cup Apple juice

• 1 cup unsweetened pineapple with juice

Procedure:

1. Blend all ingredients until smooth and consistent
   *Delicious over waffles, pancakes, crepes, toasts or cereal
    

Tzatziki Dip

Ingredients:

• 1 cup cucumber, grated
• ¾ cups natural yoghurt
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp garlic
• 1 tbsp dill

Procedure:

1. Peel cucumber, grate and squeeze the juice
2. Chop garlic and dill until fine
3. Mix all ingredients until consistent.
    

Bruschetta

Ingredients:

• Bread roll, cut diagonally

• Garlic, chopped

• Oregano, dried

• Tomatoes, diced

• Olive oil

• Salt

Procedure

1. Except bread, mix all ingredients together

2. Spread the mixture generously over the bread

3. Bake for 3-5min in an electric oven at 200°C