Four Simple Vegan Recipes That Don’t Use Any Meat Alternatives

“It’s all about balance. Use it as a chance to bring a wider variety of veg into your diet and try cooking with more legumes, pulses and nuts to provide protein.”

Four Simple Vegan Recipes That Don’t Use Any Meat Alternatives

For those new to Veganuary, there is a concern that they will lose all the protein in their diet, but this is easily replaced with legumes, pulses, nuts and seeds.

Get protein from plants

Embrace beans and brassicas, revel in the rainbow of root veg, and learn to love greens.

Eat the rainbow

Mushrooms are the obvious option for retaining a meat-like texture to plant-based dishes. A

Add some texture

Fruit-based desserts are the obvious go to, but there are plenty of plant-based hacks.

You’re still good for pud!

A wholesome and satisfying filling, with plenty of veg and protein. We blanch and squeeze the spinach so that it doesn’t add water to the mix.

Vegan sausage rolls

Serves: 4 Prep time: 20 mins | Cook time: 25 mins Cook’s notes: You can make the filling a day in advance if you like.

Vegan sausage rolls

At a time of year when we have hearty brassicas and root veg in the fields, we’ve merged them into this dark, hibernal take on a standard slaw..

Autumnal slaw

Serves: 4 Prep time: 20 min Cook’s notes: If all the slicing, peeling and shredding feels too time consuming, you can grate the beetroot, parsnip and apple instead. It will change the look but not the taste.

Autumnal slaw

Chinese duck pancakes are an absolute crowd pleaser, but you won’t miss the meat in this vegan mushroom version; it’s full of flavour and has an amazing texture just like pulled meat.

Chinese oyster mushroom plum pancakes

Serves: 3 Prep time: 20 min | Cook time: 35 min Cook’s notes: We’ve provided a recipe to make your own pancakes, but you can always buy some if you want to save time.

Chinese oyster mushroom plum pancakes

This vegan banana cake is so delicious and easy to make that it’s become one of our recipe essentials (especially when we have some overripe bananas to use up).

Banana, chocolate and pistachio loaf

Serves: 8 Prep time: 15 min | Cook time: 45 min Cook’s notes: The only requirement for making banana bread is that you use ripe bananas. Once the skins start to develop freckles and the fruits are just too soft to eat, then it’s banana bread time.

Banana, chocolate and pistachio loaf

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