Sauteed Kale and veggie sandwich

If you need an idea for something to take for lunch at work or just a quick meal to fill you up when you don't have a lot of time you can never go wrong with a sandwich. Here is one of my favorite go to meals when I want something good but don't have a lot of time!

Ingredients:

2 slices of whole grain bread

Kale

mushroom

onion

cucumber

tomato

jalapeno

hummus

Directions:

1. Saute kale, mushroom, and onion in a little bit of water until onion is cooked down to your liking.

2. Slice some cucumber, tomato, and jalapeno

3. Toast bread

4. Add your favorite hummus to both slices of bread and then stack sandwich with sautéed kale mix on one side and the cucumber, tomato, and jalapeno on the other side and combine slices.

5.  If you want to give the sandwich a extra boost instead of toasting the bread in a regular toaster put the sandwich together grab some cooking spray and toast the sandwich in a skillet for about 2 minutes on each side.

You can use a variety of veggies to make this sandwich so use whatever your heart desires! Pair this with some chips or soup and you have a complete meal.  Again don't overthink veganism it is no more difficult to create meals than when you were a meat eater unless you make it that way!

~Peace begins with your plate~

Falafel and vegetable curry

If you're into Indian food then you will enjoy this quick simple curry dish. Its loaded with vegetables and goes great with my falafel recipe. Took me a while to figure out how to perfect my falafel but I think I finally got it down! You will need a food processor or a high speed blender for the falafel.

Ingredients:

(falafel)

4 cans of chickpeas or you can soak and cook them yourself

1 cup of fresh parsley

1 lemon

1 cup of flour

salt and pepper

garlic

cumin

2 flax eggs

(vegetable curry)

Brocoli

carrots

peas

1 red pepper

1 green pepper

mushroom

1 yellow onion

1 can of diced tomatoes

coconut milk

dairy free plain yogurt

curry seasoning

turmeric

garlic

salt and pepper

thai chili seasoning

 pictured above is before baking

after baking

Directions for falafel:

1. Rinse chickpeas and place in food processor

2. Roughly chop parsley and add that in food processor as well and blend until there are still some chunks but its mostly smooth

3. Place mixture into a large mixing bowl

4. Add flour, juice of lemon, seasonings, and flax eggs and mix thoroughly

5. Preheat oven to 375

6. Line a baking sheet with foil

7. Use your hands to roll the mixture up into the shape of little balls and place on baking sheet

8. Bake for 40 minutes flipping balls around half way through

9. Allow to cool so they firm up and then serve.

Directions for curry:

1. Dice all of the vegetables and place them into a large pot with about 2 cups of water and allow the veggies to steam for about 15 minutes

2. Add salt and pepper to the veggies

3. Add can of diced tomatoes and continue cooking for about 5 minutes

4. Once all of the veggies are steamed to your liking add about 1 cup of coconut milk depending on how creamy you like your curry

5. Add the rest of the seasonings to your liking and allow curry to cook on medium high for about 10 to 15 minutes

6. Turn down heat and let it cool down for about 10 minutes

7. Add about 2 tbsp. of yogurt to curry and mix through. If you want it creamier add more

8. Serve over rice of your choice!

Add a couple scoops of hummus or some naan breed and you have the perfect meal! You can always switch up the veggies adding in more or removing the ones you don't like. Sometimes I even add potatoes, chickpeas, or tofu to the curry if I want a heavier meal. Also feel free to skip the yogurt if that's not your thing, its really up to you! Like most of my meals this dish has no added oils and is low in fat so dig in!

Cheesy Kale Chips

Kale is one of the most nutrient dense greens that you can put into your body. Any way that you can get greens in get them in! This snack is savory, cheesy, and addicting and the good thing about them is they are raw and clean so you can eat as much as your heart desires. You will need a dehydrator to prepare these as a raw snack but they are oven friendly too!

Ingredients:

1 head of kale

nutritional yeast

salt and pepper

sriracha powder

Directions:

1. Rip kale of the stem and into chip like sizes

2. Place kale into a strainer and thoroughly rinse and drain

3. Once dry place into a large mixing bowl

4. Add approximately 2tbsp of nutritional yeast, sriracha powder, salt and pepper and shake in the bowl until all the kale is evenly coated with seasonings. Season to your liking you can always add more

5. Lay flat in a dehydrator and let dehydrate for 1 to 2 hours

6. If you don't have a dehydrator put them in oven on 275 degrees for about 20 minutes

7. Enjoy!

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