Recipe: Udon noodles with delicious vegetables within 20 minutes

This dish was delicious!
I usually make this so that there's more veg than noodles.

This recipe serves 2.

Ingredients

•    1/2 teaspoon of sesame oil
•    2 aniseed stars
•    2 fresh chillies – chopped
•    2 pak choi – separate the leaves
•    150g of mange tout - kept whole
•    175g of baby corn – cut into thirds
•    1 carrot – cut along the carrot making 3 cm strips
•    1/4 of a small bunch of broccoli – chopped into bite-size pieces
•    2 tablespoons of soy sauce
•    1 (150g) packet of straight to wok udon noodles

Method 

1.    Heat the sesame oil in a wok
2.    When it’s hot, add the chillies and aniseed star
3.    After 30 seconds, add the carrot, pak choi, baby corn, mange tout and broccoli
4.    Put the lid on the pan and let it cook on a high heat for a about 3 minutes
5.    Add the soy sauce and mix
6.    Cook for 1 minute and then add the noodles
7.    Mix again, put the lid on the pan and cook on a high heat, for 1 minute
8.    Serve in a bowl if you would like the food to remain hot for longer, otherwise serve it in a plate

Serving suggestions

Toast some sesame seeds and as add a garnish before serving.
Toast some cashew nuts and as add a garnish before serving.

Recipe: Cheese on toast with pesto within 10 minutes

Here's another quick recipe for something warm, quick, filling and tasty.

This recipe serves 2.

Ingredients for vegan cheese on toast with pesto

• 4 slices of brown bread - I use Hovis because I know it doesn't have any non-vegan ingredients
• About 10 strips of sliced vegan cheese - I used Cheezly Pepperjack style
• 2 large tomatoes
• 2 fresh chillies
• Salt
• Pepper
• Vegan pesto

How to make vegan cheese on toast with pesto

1. Put some slices of bread under the grill for a few minutes
2. When they're a little cooked i.e. not anywhere near fully toasted, spread the pesto on the toast
3. After about 30 seconds, add the of cheese
4. Chop the tomatoes and add it to the toast when the cheese has begun to melt
5. Add the chopped chillies when the tomatoes have cooked a little
6. Add salt and pepper to taste

Recipe: Pizza on toast within 10 minutes

Fancy something warm, quick, filling and tasty? How about this cheese on toast with a few extra ingredients?

This recipe serves 2.

Ingredients for vegan cheese on toast

• 4 slices of brown bread - I use Hovis because I know it doesn't have any non-vegan ingredients
• About 10 strips of sliced vegan cheese - I used Cheezly Pepperjack style
• 2 large tomatoes
• 2 fresh chillies
• Salt
• Pepper

How to make vegan cheese on toast

1. Put the bread under the grill for a few minutes 
2. When they're a little cooked i.e. not anywhere near fully toasted, add the cheese
3. Chop the tomatoes and add when the cheese has begun to melt
4. Scatter the chopped chillies when the tomatoes have cooked a little
5. Add salt and pepper to taste

Recipe: A healthy vegan snack that's ready to eat within 5 minutes

If you want a quick, filling, easy to make, healthy snack; try this.

Ingredients

• Sesame Ryvita
• Peanut butter
• 1 banana

Method

1. Get some crackers
2. Spread some Peanut Butter on the crackers - do this carefully or the crackers may break
3. Slice a banana in half and then create further slices along the length of the banana
4. Place the slices of banana on the peanut butter and you're ready to munch away

Different ways to serve this snack

Ryvita with peanut butter and thin slices of banana

DIY Ryvita with peanut butter and thin slices of banana

Recipe: Vegan sausages on a bed of salad made within 15 minutes

This is a yummy quick meal that includes a mixture of hot and 'cooler' items.

With this dish, I made it so that there was more salad than sausage.

This recipe serves 2.

Ingredients

• 1/2 a small lettuce
• 2 or 3 large handfuls of Wild Peppery Rocket
• 10 cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 a cucumber
• About 200g of bean sprouts
• 2 vegan sausages
• Salt
• Pepper

Method

1. Wash, drain and chop some lettuce 
2. Lay the lettuce on a plate
3. Add some rocket
4. Scatter some cherry tomatoes on top
5. Add some sliced cucumber
6. Sprinkle some bean sprouts
7. Lightly cook the vegan sausages in a pan
8. Chop them into suitable pieces and add them to the salad
9. Add salt and pepper to taste

Recipe: Quinoa served with tofu and broccoli cooked in soya sauce

This recipe makes a quick, simple and delicious dish. Whenever I make dishes with for example, quinoa, pasta, cous cous, I load it up with vegetables. I find this lighter on the tummy, healthier and feel more content afterwards.

This recipe serves 2.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of quinoa
• Salt
• About 150g of Tofu
• 1/2 a small broccoli
• Coconut oil
• Soy Sauce

How to make the quinoa

1. Measure the dry quinoa
2. The proportion of dry quinoa to cooked quinoa is about 1:3, so 1 cup of dried quinoa will make about 3 cups of cooked quinoa
3. Rinse the quinoa under cold water and drain - it’s handy to use a fine mesh sieve for rinsing it
4. Put the rinsed quinoa into a saucepan and add cold water - the quinoa to water ratio is 1:2, so use 2 cups of water for every cup of quinoa
5. If you wish to give it a subtle flavour, add some vegetable stock to the water
6. Add a little salt
7. Cover and boil
8. As soon as it starts to boil, turn the heat down and put the lid over the pan so that's it isn't fully covering it - this will stop it boiling over
9. Simmer for 15-20 minutes - the quinoa becomes transparent when it’s cooked, except for a little spiral sprout
10. If the quinoa is tender but there’s excess water in the bottom of the saucepan, leave the lid off completely for a few minutes until the water evaporates
11. When it's done turn off the heat, put the lid on and let sit for about 5 minutes
12. Use a fork to fluff up the quinoa and then serve it up

How to make the vegetable part of this dish

1. Chop some Tofu
2. Chop some broccoli
3. Put a bit of oil in a wok
4. Add the broccoli first
5. Add some soya sauce
6. Let it cook with the lid on using a medium/high heat
7. Add the Tofu when the broccoli  is half done
8. Mix and add to the plate of quinoa