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Creamy Portobello Cauliflower Fettuccine Alfredo

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Even Mr. Alfredo himself would FOR SURE give this Cauliflower Fettuccine Alfredo a 10/10. Even without cream, butter or cheese at the party.

Cream-ified with cauli and cashews and simplified with just 8 ingredients, making it the perfect answer to your weeknight scramble-fest (just takes 20 minutes).

Kids will love it too.

Use this sauce for anything else you need to add flavourful creaminess to (lunch wraps, sandwiches, glory bowls…)

I’ve added in some portobellos, smoked tofu, and peas for extra Alfredo pasta pizzazz.

Double it up, so you don’t have to worry about dinner a few nights away (my tastebuds wouldn’t have any problem at all if this was on repeat multiple times a week).

Cauliflower for the win once again. Love you, you versatile bundle of cruciferous-ness.

Creamy Cauliflower Fettuccine Alfredo
 
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A creamy pasta minus the heaviness! Cauliflower is the star in this one, serving as the base for a deliciously decadent feeling Alfredo sauce. Throw in some smoked tofu for that bacon-y feel, and you have yourself a nostalgic favourite to trick any comfort food lover!
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Recipe type: pasta
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 1 large cauliflower, chopped (5 heaping cups of cauliflower florets)
  • 1-2 tbsp tamari
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 portobellos, sliced
  • 1 sweet onion, diced
  • ¾ cup soaked cashews
  • ¾ cup veggie broth
  • ½ cup nutritional yeast
  • juice of ½ lemon (about 1 tablespoon), plus 2 wedges for serving
  • ½ tsp sea salt
  • ½ tsp pepper, to taste
  • 1 package (350 g) fettuccine or rotini pasta (gluten free if needed)
  • ½ cup smoked tofu, chopped
  • Fresh minced parsley, or sage for garnish

  • Optional:
  • Smoked Vegan Parmesan
  • ¾ cup green peas
Instructions
  1. Steam cauliflower florets in a steamer basket with the lid on for 10 to 15 minutes until fork tender.
  2. Meanwhile, heat a pan to medium heat and add the onions, garlic and mushrooms. Sauté for 10 minutes using splashes of tamari and water to de-glaze the pan if they’re sticking at all.
  3. Cook the pasta according to the package directions. Drain well, pour it back into the pot, then set aside.
  4. Make the sauce! Blend the steamed cauliflower, lemon, milk, nutritional yeast, salt, and pepper with HALF of the sautéed mushrooms, onion, garlic mix in a high-speed blender. Blend until smooth and creamy.
  5. Add the cauliflower sauce to the pasta pot and stir well.
  6. Add the green peas (if using)and heat over low-medium until everything is heated through. Taste and add more salt, lemon or pepper if needed.
  7. Serve it up! Divide the pasta into bowls, and add a sprinkle of fresh minced parsley. Add any other veggies you feel would be delicious with this creamy concoction!
  8. Optional: sprinkle with this Smoked Vegan Parmesan.

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Matcha Date Overnight Buckwheat Oats | 2 Ways

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If easy is what you’re lookin’ for. Search no further.

This bowl of goodness is just a few easy steps away.

It’s packed with nutrients and energizing pizzazz!

Plant protein, antioxidants, and lots’a fibre make this a fantastical breakfast to fuel what ever your day has ahead.

You can even make this into grab and go Jules Fuel balls.

For those of you who don’t know, I’m a cereal entrepreneur, literally.

I started Jules Fuel in 2012 after I retired from 6 years on the Ski Cross World Cup tour with the National team. I used to bring a similar breakfast blend on the road with me, so I knew that I’d at least have a healthy breakfast. I decided to bag it up, hit up Farmer’s Markets and grocery stores to share my cereal with those in search of a healthy, quick, delish breaki!

Where to find it online:

Vegan Supply ships internationally!

Spud delivers to the Vancouver/Whistler areas.

The original (on the left) is the Quinoa Breakfast Blend aka quinoa oatmeal packed with superfoods!

If you want to make it yourself here’s what’s in it: quinoa, oats, goji berries, chia seeds, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and raisins, that’s it.

This one needs 10 minutes of cooking, and you’re good to go (I always make the whole bag, or a week’s worth, so it’s ready to bowl up in the morning with my fave toppings).

The 2 new Jules Fuel cereals on the block are Matcha Date or Blueberry Cacao Overnight Buckwheat Oats.

These buckwheat oats bring the base of buckwheat, oats and a tiny bit of coconut sugar, and they’re topped off with either blueberry powder and cacao nibs, or matcha powder and date chunks (my personal fave).

There’s no cooking needed for these ones! Just soak these power oats overnight in your favourite plant milk (I love unsweetened vanilla soy or oat milk) and see ya in the AM!

I mean…. it’s too easy not to!

Of course, you can cook them if you want!

I’ve got both recipes for you here.

  1. Soak it
  2. The quick cook featuring bananas

Happy Breakfasting!!

Matcha Date or Blueberry Cacao Overnight Buckwheat Oats | 2 Ways
 
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An easy, nutritious, energizing breakfast to fuel your day!
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Recipe type: breakfast
Serves: 2-3
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Jules Fuel overnight buckwheat oats (or your own mix of oats, buckwheat, a little coconut sugar and favourite superfoods)
  • ¾-1 cup plant milk
Instructions
  1. Add oat mixture and milk to a mason jar or tupperware. Shake it up.
  2. Keep in the fridge for at least 1 hour or over night.
  3. Top it with your favourite toppings: coconut yogurt, fruit, maple syrup, or nuts!

Banana Matcha Buckwheat Oats
 
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Buckwheat oats to fuel your day with energizing nutrients, fibre and antioxidants! The matcha gives you a natural caffeine boost, and the dates with the banana sweeten up these superfood oats. Eat this and you won't need your coffee!
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Recipe type: breakfast, snack
Serves: 1-2
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Jules Fuel Matcha Date Buckwheat Oats
  • 1 cup plant-milk of choice
  • 1 ripe banana, mashed

  • Toppings options:
  • Molasses
  • Maple syrup
  • Berries or any other fruit
  • Coconut flakes
  • Coconut (or almond/soy/cashew) yogurt
  • Nut butter
  • Chopped pecans/walnuts/brazil nuts
Instructions
  1. Heat the Jules Fuel, milk and banana up on the stove at medium heat. Stir and cover for 5 minutes.
  2. In the meantime, get your toppings ready to party.
  3. Serve the buckwheat oats up in your favourite bowl, and top it to the nines. Indulge.

 

Tag @hookedonplants and @julesfuelyum if you make this! I love to see your creations.

Raw Vegan Raspberry Chocolate Mousse Dream Pie

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This is nothing less than a dream. Raw Vegan Raspberry Chocolate Mousse Dream Pie…

A mouthful…of deliciousness.

Raspberry top layer.

Velvety chocolate mid-layer.

Date crust with a hint of orange for the base.

Grandma Joyce was pretty amazed by this birthday pie for her 89th! So amazed that she ate it for breakfast the next 3 days, as a side to her green smoothie. Sounds like the perfect breakfast to me;)

It’s easy to make and is the definition of ‘melt in your mouth’.

Serve it up with some berries, and maybe even some of this Coco Whip or Aquafaba Whip?!

Holy dreamy moly.

More proof that you don’t need heavy cream, butter, eggs or milk to create a sultry, dense, creamy, decadent dessert!!

Avocados for the win.

Chocolate Avocado Mousse Cake
 
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A velvety pie with all the decadent feels. It doesn't need baking, it doesn't come with any dairy, yet it brings a whole lot of 'mmmmm's and 'wow's!
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Recipe type: dessert, pie
Serves: 8-10
Ingredients

  • Crust:
  • 1½ cup dates
  • 1¼ cup oats
  • ¾ cup walnuts
  • 2 tsp orange zest
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • pinch of salt

  • Chocolate Mousse Filling:
  • 4 ripe avocados
  • ½ cup cacao (or cocoa)
  • ¼ cup maple syrup
  • pinch of salt

  • Raspberry Dream Layer:
  • 1 ripe avocado
  • ¼ cup maple syrup
  • 1 heaping cup raspberries
  • 1 ripe banana

  • Optional Toppings:
  • Blackberries
  • Walnuts
Instructions
  1. In your food processor, blend all crust ingredients together until combined. It should be a crumbly but sticky consistency.
  2. Line a spring form pan with parchment paper. I cut a circle, then two thick strips. Place the strips down first as an 'X', then layer the circle on top.
  3. Press the crust into the pan evenly (use wet fingers to prevent stickiness), then put it in the freezer while you do the next step.
  4. In your food processor, blend all Chocolate Mousse ingredients for 1 minute in your food processor, until it's silky smooth.
  5. Pour this mousse into your spring form pan.
  6. Place in the freezer again while you make the next layer.
  7. In your food processor, blend all Raspberry Dream layer ingredients together until smooth.
  8. Pour the raspberry layer over the chocolate layer. Spread evenly with a spatula.
  9. Place the pie into the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
  10. When you're ready to serve, remove it from the spring form pan to a pie plate, then spruce it up with more berries and extra walnuts.
  11. Whip up Coconut Whip orAquafaba Whip if you want!
Notes
Prep time doesn't count the 30 minutes in the freezer before serving

 

Tag @hookedonplants on instagram if you make this!

I love seeing your recipes.

Peanut Butter Quinoa Cookies | Vegan + Protein Packed

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When that cookie craving kicks in, but your brain is tellin’ you no.

Well, you can say yes to these munchkins. These peanut butter quinoa cookies are perfect for packing in your adventure bag or your school lunch, but they’re still a winner when it comes to oat milk and cookie dippin’ for dessert.

First of all, quinoa is a complete protein, and then that peanut butter adds even more of a plant protein punch.

Protein protein protein.

 

On a plant-based diet, you don’t have to worry too much about protein. It’s in every single whole plant food in the perfect package with fibre, phytonutrients, micronutrients, vitamins, minerals and water content. Protein from meat comes in a package that still has vitamins, minerals and some water content, but it also comes with cholesterol, much more saturated fat, natural and sometimes artificial hormones, and more often than not, antibiotics, all without any fibre.

Over all, humans need .8 or .9 grams of protein per healthy kG of body weight per day.

To figure out how much you need, multiply your ideal weight in pounds by 4 then divide by 10.

Example: 125lbs x 4 = 500 / 10 = 50g of protein per day for a 125lb person. This is more than enough per day.

You can go on to Cronometer to punch in a regular day of eating, just to get an idea of how easy it is to get that much protein.

If you’re keen to explore this a bit more, this Dr. Gregor resource is amazing.

Plant Proof also wrote up a great post all about protein.

Worrying about getting enough protein is one stress we can all easily live with out. Not getting enough protein, is a simple issue of not eating enough calories. So, unless we’re trying to bulk up at the gym (getting just enough, and not over dosing is key here) or we’re growing older, there’s no need to spend much time focusing on getting enough protein.

Especially if you chow down on these cookies!

By the way, they’ll be crisp on the outside, chewing on the inside for the first day, but when you store them in a cookie jar, they’ll get a big cakier (which I don’t mind at all).

Dip away, or enjoy on a mountain top!

Peanut Butter Quinoa Cookies | Vegan + Protein Packed
 
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A cookie that packed a protein punch! Perfect for the vegan lunch box.
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Cuisine: dessert, snack
Serves: 16
Ingredients

  • Wet Ingredients
  • 2 cups quinoa, pre-cooked
  • ½ cup plant milk (I used oat)
  • ¼ tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbsp vegan butter (melted)
  • 1 ripe banana
  • ¼ cup smooth peanut butter
  • 2 flax eggs (mix 2 tbsp ground flax with 6 tbsp water, let sit 5 minutes)
  • ¼ cup maple syrup

  • Dry Ingredients:
  • 1 cup flour (whole wheat or gluten free oats blended to a flour!)
  • ½ cup coconut sugar
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • pinch of sea salt
  • ½ cup vegan chocolate chips
  • ½ cup pecans or walnuts, chopped
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350°F
  2. Make your flax egg if you haven't already.
  3. In your blender, blend all wet ingredients.
  4. In your kitchen mixer, with the whisk attachment, mix together dry ingredients (or use a good ol' whisk, arm power and a big bowl).
  5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredient bowl and mix until well combined.
  6. Scoop cookies (about 2 tbsp of dough per cookie) onto a parchment covered tray (or reusable baking mat). Press them down! They won't spread into each other.
  7. Bake for 15 minutes.
  8. Remove from oven and let cool for 2 minutes, then transfer to a cookie cooling rack.
  9. They will be crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside!
  10. Store in a cookie jar with parchment paper (to help absorb some moisture). The next day they will be a bit cakier, but still so delicious!

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Easy Cheezy Broccoli Potato Soup

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Bring back that nostalgic broccoli and cheese sauce side dish!

This Cheezy Broccoli Potato Soup does just that. It’s thick and flavourful with sooooo many nutrients.

If you’re timing tonight gives you anxiety when you even consider making dinner, this is tha soup fo’ you!!

It’s really yum with this smokey vegan parmesano, and a side of avocado toast (duh).

This is a super satiating, delicious, and incredibly nutritious soup for those times you just don’t have that time to spend alllllll hours in the kitchen.

Easy Cheezy Broccoli Potato Soup
 
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A simple, whole foods soup with that 'cheese & broccoli sauce' nostalgia!
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Recipe type: dinner, lunch
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 sweet onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 3 heads broccoli, roughly chopped
  • 2 russet potatoes, roughly chopped
  • ¾-1 cup nutritional yeast
  • 3 tbsp tamari
  • 3 cups mushroom or vegetable broth
  • Optional for thickening: 1 tbsp corn starch or arrowroot powder, mixed with ½ cup water
  • 2 green onion, chopped
Instructions
  1. Boil potatoes until soft (place potato in a large pot, cover with water, bring to a rolling boil and let boil for 15 minutes)
  2. Steam broccoli for 5 minutes (alternatively, place broccoli florets in the boiling water with the potatoes at the 10 minute mark ~ you will lose a bit of flavour, but save on cleaning a pot)
  3. Meanwhile, water sauté onion and garlic (heat a pan to medium heat, add onion, mix around as it browns for a few minutes, then add a bit of water to de-glaze. Let it cook until translucent, add a bit of water when if it's sticking).
  4. Blend in two batches: add half of everything (broccoli, potatoes, 1½ tbsp tamari, 1 - 1½ cups broth, ½ cup nutritional yeast) to the blender and blend until almost smooth. Pour into the pot you used for potato boiling, then repeat with the rest of the ingredients.
  5. Warm the soup up for a few minutes, then stir in the optional cornstarch mixture (mix for at least 30 seconds)
  6. Serve with avocado toast, green onion, and this Smokey Vegan Parm!

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