Recipe 002

[nina_vendredi]

So this is an adaptation of the recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance, but made to taste more like my mom's tuna salad.



Mock tuna salad
1 can chick peas drained and rinsed
1 tbsp dried hijiki seaweed
1 tbsp dried powdered or flaked dulse seasweed (optional, you can pretty much put 1-2 tbsp of whatever seaweed you want, it's mostly for the flavor, but hijiki adds texture as well. You do want to make sure that the pieces are not much more then the width of a pea)
1/4 of a small onion minced (about 2 tbsp)
3 tbsp pickle relish (sweet or dill is fine, whichever you prefer)
1/4 c. vegan mayo substitute (more or less depending on how dry/moist you want it)

put the seaweed in a bowl and cover with boiling water, let sit while you work on the rest of the recipe.

using a potato masher, mash the chickpeas in a bowl until it's fairy smooth. You don't want it as a paste, but you want to make sure that all the beans are broken up. Once that's done, dump in everything but the seaweed. Drain the seaweed first and then dump it in the bowl.

mix, add salt and pepper to taste. Serve in anyway that pleases you.

Comments

[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

I've made my own mock chicken salad and mock egg salad, as I considered them, with tofu. I like such salads, and vegenaise is so good. Celery seed helped give the "chicken" salad its flavor, and actual celery, paprika and nutritional yeast help create and egg salad flavor. This one sounds good too, with the seaweed to make it "fishy".

[nina-vendredi.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try those out. I'd never been a fan of eggs even before I went vegan, but I always intend to try mock egg salad. I never seem to get around to it though, so I should probably fix that one of these days. XD

[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

Scrambled tofu cooked in a pan for breakfast is good too..with nutritional yeast for eggy flavor and color, garlic powder, and any other spices.. and with chopped tomato or other veggies.

[nina-vendredi.livejournal.com]

I definitely have a couple of scrambled tofu recipes, turmeric does nice things for the color too. I really like it over English muffins, with the hash brown patties from Trader Joe's on the side.

[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was gonna mention turmeric too! And I love Trader Joe's..I wish there was one closer than two hours from where I live now.

[nina-vendredi.livejournal.com]

I always feel slightly guilty for trying to share recipes, because where I live it's so easy to find just about any ingredient that you want at pretty reasonable prices. I've usually got at least a couple of substitutes and work arounds in mind for everything, because I kind of live in fear of going to visit my mother, and not being able to eat.

I've got kind of a love/hate relationship with Trader Joes, on the one hand they have so much food I can eat at really good prices, but on the other, they over package everything, and I work for a small food manufacturer, and I know what they do to businesses like ours to offer those prices.

[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

I guess I still think of them as a pretty small company, not as "evil" as others and based on good things.

And I grew up in the Chicago area, so back there I have access to whatever I want. Living in smaller towns, I make do or pick up stuff in other cities, and I'm also good at the substitution thing too.