Homemade "gyros" seitan

You will need
basic:
1 cup wheat gluten
3/4 cup water
1 spoon of vegan Worcester sauce
1/4 tsp vegetable broth (powder)

marinade:
2 Tbsp oil
1/8 cup water
Worcester sauce
gyros spices
smoked paprika
turmeric
herbs de Provence

Method
Mix in a bowl wheat gluten and vegetable broth. Then pour water with worcester sauce and knead until soft.

Cut the seitan dough for pieces and leave about 10 minutes.

In a medium saucepan boil water with warcester sauce and vegetable broth. Add seitan pieces and cook about 15-20 minutes.

Meanwhile prepare the marinade. In a medium bowl mix oil with water and Worcester sauce. Add gyros spices, smoked paprika, turmeric and herbs de Provence and mix well. Drain cooked seitan pieces and give them into the marinade. Close everything with a lid and leave about 2 hours (more the better).

Fry in a pan and serve for example with baked veggie and giant couscous or bread. Enjoy

Seitan with baked veggie (potatoes, 2 types of beetroot, celeriac and carrot - everything seasoned with Herbs de Provance and salt) and giant couscous

Creamy Avocado Sauce

You will need
1 ripe medium size avocado, pitted
4 garlic cloves
3 tbsp Extra virgin Rapeseed oil
2 tsp nutritional yeast
1/4 cup fresh basil (or other favorite herbs)
zest of 1 lemon
juice of 1/2 lemon
salt
pecans or walnuts

Method
Place lemon juice, lemon zest, oil, garlic, basil, nutritional yeast and avocado in a food processor. Process until smooth and creamy. Taste and season with salt.
Cook pasta until al dente. Drain well and mix with avocado sauce. To serve garnish with pecans or walnuts.

Vegan BBQ "Ribs"

You will need
2 cups vital wheat gluten
1.5 cups vegetable broth
4 tbsp nutritional yeast
4 tbsp smooth peanut butter
2 tbsp smoked paprika
2 tbsp soy sauce
4 tsp onion powder
2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 cup Barbecue sauce, plus more for serving

Method
Preheat oven to 180 C and lightly grease baking dish. In a medium bowl stir together wheat gluten, nutritional yeast and spices. In a small bowl whisk broth with peanut butter and soy sauce. Pour mixture into bowl with the dry ingredients and stir until the mixture has formed a soft dough. Use your hands and knead gently about 3 minutes. Transfer mixture into greased baking dish and flatten so it's spread across the entire pan. Use a knife to make one lengthwise cut across the dough, then cut evenly crosswise to make about 10 slices. Place baking dish in preheated oven and bake for 25 minutes. Remove baking dish from oven and brush the top of the ribs with barbecue sauce. Then return ribs to oven and bake for 200 C or on heated grill until the bottom of the ribs are deeply browned (about 5 minutes). Remove from heat and serve with bread and a lots of veggie...and with mustard or more barbecue sauce.

Simply chickpea cutlets

You will need
1 can chickpea, drained
1 onion, diced
60g breadcrumbs
50g soy single cream
2 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp mustard
2 tsp capers
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp bouillon powder
oil

Method
Put everything (without oil) into the blender and mix until smooth. Leave rest about 10 minutes in the fridge. Make a little cutlets and fry them on the pan with oil until golden or bake them in the oven (180 C) about 20 minutes. Serve with veggie, bread or mash.

Chocolate cake with cherry and coconut whipped cream

You will need
Chocolate sponge:
100g white spelt flour
100g plain wholegrain flour
50g buckwheat flour
50g soy flour
140g almond butter
100g dark muscovado
3 cups soy milk
2 tsp baking powder

Cherry and chia "custard":
2 cans cherry in light juice
2 tbsp cornflour
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp chia seeds

Coconut whipped cream:
2 cans coconut milk
3 tbsp chia seeds
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp icing sugar

Method
Chocolate sponge: Preheat oven to 170 C. In a large bowl mix all types of flours with banking powder and dark muscovado. Add almond butter and soy milk and stir through until just well combined. Pour batter into a cake tin with baking paper and bake about 30-40 minutes until skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Leave to cool.

Cherry and chia "custard": Stone all cherries and drain the juice. Pour juice into the saucepan, add lemon juice and cornflour and cook until thick. Mix the cherries and chia seeds and leave to cool.

Coconut whipped cream: Chill your coconut milk in the fridge overnight. Then remove the can from the fridge (without tipping or shaking) and remove the lid. Scrape out the top, thickened cream and leave the liquid behind. Place cream in mixing bowl, add lemon juice and icing sugar and beat with a mixer about 30 second or until creamy. Then add chia seeds and mix about 1 minute. Leave the cool in the fridge about 10 minutes.

Cut off the upper part of the sponge, return it back into the cake tin, pour the cherry "custard" and then coconut whipped cream. Sprinkle with the rest of the crumbled chocolate sponge and leave the cool in the fridge about 30 minutes. Take out from the cake tin and serve.

Roast "Turk'y"

You will need 
dry ingredients:
2 cups what gluten
1/4 cup chickpea flour
2 tsp onion powder
1 tsp cornflour or arrowroot power
1 tsp poultry seasoning
1 tsp garlic powder

liquid ingredients:
2 1/2 cup water
2 tbsp nutritional yeast
2 tbsp oil
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp Marigold Vegetable Bouillon Powder

Method
Add the liquid ingredients to the dry mixture. Mix well until combined and until some elasticity begins to develop in the dough. Let the dough rest for 10 minutes (the dough will become a bit firmer and easier to work with). While the dough is resting, preheat the oven to 170 C.
On a work surface, lay out a large sheet of aluminum foil. Put the dough on the foil. Begin to roll. Wrap with 2 additional sheets of foil to completely seal the dough, twisting the ends very tight.
Place into shallow baking dish and roast for 2 hours, turning after 1 hour.
Remove from the oven and transfer the foil package to a plate. Let cool at room temperature and serve.

Recipe is from Skye Michael Conroy's book "The gentle chef cookbook"  

Baked sweet potato with cashew sour cream, baked chickpea and tomato salad

You will need 
4 medium sweet potatoes

for cashew sour cream
1 cup cashews, soaked and drained
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp salt

for baked chickpea
1 can chickpea, rinsed and drained
1 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 tsp salt

for tomato salad
cherry tomatoes, halved
mix of herbs - I used two types of mint, oregano, flat leave parsley
extra virgin rapeseed oil (or olive oil)

Method
Bake sweet potatoes in oven (180 C) about 40 minutes or until they are soft.

Meanwhile prepare cashew sour cream - Using a blender, puree the cashew, salt, water and lemon juice until very smooth. Add extra water if needed to thin sauce, and season to taste with additional salt if desired.

Prepare chickpea - Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Mix chickpea, smoked paprika and salt. Bake about 10 minutes.

Tomato salad - Mix tomatoes with herbs and oil. You can add a lemon juice or salt, if you want.

For serving, cut the skin of sweet potato and squeeze a little bit. Add cashew sour cream, baked chickpea and serve with tomato herb salad. Serve immediately.

Note: recipe for a Cashew sour cream - "Plant-Powered Families" from Dreena Burton