Choosing Vegetarian Recipes

Whether you are an experienced chef or someone who has never put together a suitable menu for eating meal, think about expanding your understanding of cooking by adding vegetarian recipes. Chefs of popular restaurants and moms of hungry families will enjoy having more meals to cook, and the customers and children who eat the food will be overjoyed as well.

Perusing vegetarian recipes is great, even it it's simply just to add some yummy treats to the kitchen with something new. No cook likes to get fed up by preparing the same meals over and over. It is always fun to try new ingredients or methods of making the foods you love and it can be just as fun to try out various dishes with vegetarian recipes you have never tried before.

Amazing vegetarian recipes can be found in many places. Search online, in cookbooks, or at local health food stores for ideas. If you have friends that have been cooking great dishes try exchanging vegetarian recipes with them. Sometimes restaurants will even share vegetarian recipes with their customers for little or no charge.

Paying a visit into a local health food store is a great way to obtain all of the ingredients and spices you will need to begin cooking vegetarian recipes to perfection. Workers at these stores are often knowledgeable with the resources they have and you can learn a lot from them.

Including vegetarian recipes into any diet will bring variety and give healthy eating options. Many studies suggest that switching just some of your weekly diet to vegetarian recipes can be of great assistance to your health. Let your taste buds enjoy new things that are good for your body. Vegetarian recipes will often include many of the vitamins, minerals, and sources of nutrition that every body needs. Instead of meat, vegetarian recipes are filled with healthy protein substitutes so that you do not miss out on things you need. 

Take a look at your health and at the foods you've been eating. By substituting a few vegetarian recipes into your diet can quickly improve how you feel and can be part of an overall health plan that will improve your life. Since few things are as important as leading a healthy life, take your time into finding and checking out new and better ways to eat. 

Vegetarian recipes are just one of many things that you can consider. And contrary to popular belief, vegetarian recipes are full of the taste and enjoyment of many other foods you eat. The biggest difference is that they are much better for you. Contrary to popular belief, vegetarian cooking can be very tasty when you know how.

                                   Baked Creamed Onions

Ingredients

2 cup small whole frozen onions
1 can low-fat cream of celery soup
3 tbsp. milk
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 cup croutons or bread crumbs

Preparation Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook onions as directed on package, drain. Place in lightly greased casserole dish.

2. Combine soup and milk. Pour over onions. Sprinkle with cheese and croutons or bread crumbs. Bake for about 15 minutes.

Curried Vegetable Soups

A steaming bowl of soup on a cold, stormy or snowy weather is the perfect antidote to all the gloom. It’s like a warm snuggle or a burst of sunshine with rays strong enough to melt the icicles gathering on the eaves of the house. Hot and savory soup beats the cold mist with steam, fogging up eyeglasses as one nurses spoonful after spoonful of the broth. Soups recipes bring about this comforting feeling, reflecting the care the cook nurtures a pot of broth or stock, with which most great soups begin.

Hot soups can be as nutritious as the ingredients you put on the pot. Meat, poultry and seafood provide the much-needed protein in both the broth and as main or supplementary ingredient. Vegetables, herbs and spices contribute vitamins and anti-oxidants that give soup its healing properties. In fact, in Chinese herbal medicine, soup with special herbs and ingredients are often prescribed to cure an ailment or malady. Perhaps that’s why chicken soup is often given to those with colds and flu.

Curried Vegetable Soups

Vegetables soups are especially good with curry flavors because they can be a bit bland. You can sweeten vegetable soups, adding sugar and cream. This would work well with a canned pumpkin soup recipe, for example, because pumpkin can be used in both sweet and savory recipes. You can also make sweet carrot or yam soup, adding orange juice, ginger and a little sugar. Curry powder adds flavor to any of these.

Other vegetables are better kept savory. A broccoli or turnip based soup would be good with savory curry flavors. Some vegetables have a strong flavor and others are very mellow, which is why there are different curry soup recipes for different vegetables.

This is a chicken stock based soup recipe and the combination of dill, curry powder, and cayenne pepper adds a flavorful spiciness without overpowering the other flavors. Halve the amount of cayenne pepper if you want a milder taste. Corn and tomatoes have a naturally sweet flavor and this is a wonderfully warming soup.

Leaving the soup to stand at room temperature for a couple of hours and then heating it through again is optional but it does improve and enhance the flavor. This soup recipe makes enough for four servings.

What you will need:

3 tablespoons butter

3 tablespoons all purpose flour

1 teaspoon curry powder

5 oz frozen corn kernels

1 cup canned crushed tomatoes in juice

1 cup chicken stock

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

2 cups milk

1 teaspoon dill weed

How to make it:

Melt the butter, then add the flour and whisk for a minute. Add the milk and keep whisking the mixture over a medium heat until it is thick. Add the cayenne pepper and curry powder and stir. Add the tomatoes and chicken stock, then the corn and dill.

Heat the soup to a simmer and cook it for ten minutes. Let the soup stand at room temperature for two hours, then gently warm it up and serve hot with some warm, crusty bread for dipping.

You can use curry powder and cayenne pepper to live up any vegetable soup recipe. Pumpkin soup is one of the most versatile kinds of soup because it can be sweet, tangy, spicy, smooth, chunky or a combination of these flavors and textures.

Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Chocolate cupcakes are the perfect party treat for any occasion, be it a children’s party, a picnic get-together, intimate Valentines or Christmas with the family. One cup is just enough for one person and it can be served in a casual setting with no mess or fuss, or can also make an elegant presentation in weddings or formal occasions. You can enjoy these chocolate cupcakes on their own or decorate them in different colors depending on the occasion and your imagination.

To make a perfect chocolate cupcake use the best quality ingredients and measure each and every ingredient as precisely as possible. This will ensure a fluffy and delicate cupcake with awesome chocolate flavor. Wet ingredients like milk are best measured using glass cups placed on a table with a level surface. Dry ingredients like sugar and flour are best measured in cups that are flat on top. Use a spatula to level the dry ingredients and lightly scoop them making sure you don’t press them and make them compact in the cup or you will end up using more than you need. Sifting the ingredients is best to get an accurate measurement. This also prevents lumps from forming and making the batter smoother and lighter for fluffier and airy cupcakes.

Ingredients

2 cups flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 cup cocoa powder, unsweetened

Pinch of salt

3 tablespoons melted butter

1 ½ cups white sugar

2 eggs, well beaten

3/4 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 cup milk

Preparation Instructions

1 Mix together all the dry ingredients except the sugar.

2 In a separate bowl, blend the melted butter and white sugar. Beat in each egg separately. Add the vanilla extract.

3 Add the milk to the dry ingredients, then add the remaining moist ingredients, stirring well.

4 Pour the batter into muffin pans lined with cupcake papers. Fill about 1/2 way, to allow space for the batter to rise. Bake for 15-20 minutes in a preheated oven at 350 degrees F.

Duck Carpaccio With Pistou Sauce

An exotic appetizer, carpaccio is often served in fine dining restaurants and luxury hotels. Carpaccio is traditionally made with thinly sliced raw beef and served with a mustard dressing or olive oil dressing but the dish has transformed and evolved since its conception and various types of carpaccio has been made and experimented with including fish, fruits, seafood, and in this recipe, duck! In this recipe, duck carpaccio is dressed with a pistou sauce made with basil, walnuts, hazelnuts, and pine nuts for a truly flavorful and stimulating appetizer.

The essential thing when making this recipe is to slice the duck meat very thinly since this is the essence of carpaccio. To do this, you need a meat slicer or slicing machine but if you don’t have one, use a very sharp and long knife to slice the meat as thinly as possible. To make it easier, the duck breast with the fat on is wrapped in cling film and frozen. Once the duck breast is frozen, it is easier to cut it into very thin slices and it melts lusciously in the mouth when it is eaten.

Ingredients

For the pistou (sauce):

1.76 oz. (about 3 ½ tablespoons) basil

2 teaspoons walnuts

2 teaspoons hazelnuts

2 teaspoons pine nuts

salt, pepper

1/4 cup olive oil

For the presentation:

1 duck breast, sliced (about 1 pound)

1 mixed salad bouquet

2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar

basil leaf

Preparation Instructions

1 To prepare the pistou, chop the basil, walnuts, hazelnuts, and pine nuts. Pulse in food processor and season with salt and pepper. Progressively add olive oil to obtain a thick paste.

2 Wrap duck breast in plastic film and freeze until hard. Cut into thin slices with a slicing machine.

3 Using a paintbrush, cover 4 serving dishes with the pistou sauce. Place the duck slices on each of them, covering the entire plate. Salt, pepper, and cover lightly with pistou. Repeat a second time.

4 Season the salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

5 Lay a small bouquet of salad in the middle of the dish. Decorate with a basil leaf.

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