Delicious dishes made from plants, not compromises. High protein vegan meals and vegetarian recipes with the numbers on the card — because “plant-based” says nothing about how much protein is on the plate.
Butternut, sweet potato and Brussels sprouts tipped hot over raw kale and dressed while warm: 590 calories a bowl, 15 g of fiber, and half a day's sodium mostly from the salt you add.
Silken tofu instead of cashews or coconut milk, and 15 minutes of sun on the sliced mushrooms first: 430 calories and 20 g of protein a plate. Sodium is the catch.
Two tablespoons of tamari put 503 of the 735 mg of sodium in this bowl — the swap that makes it gluten-free is the salty one. Rice noodles, raw vegetables, a five-minute sauce.
Lentils, browned mushrooms and vegetables in a dark gravy under a forked potato top - 2 g of saturated fat where a lamb version has 12, and one nutrient the swap really costs.
Crisp roasted chickpeas spiced after they leave the oven, turmeric quinoa and a lemon-tahini dressing - 7.7 mg of iron a serving, and the lemon supplies 6% of the vitamin C that helps you absorb it.
Red lentils instead of rice, so the protein is the base and not the garnish: 23 g a bowl, and just over half of it comes from the 50 g of dry lentils. Sodium is the catch.
Two tablespoons of tamari put 503 of the 735 mg of sodium in this bowl — the swap that makes it gluten-free is the salty one. Rice noodles, raw vegetables, a five-minute sauce.
One cup of broth a bowl carries 2.7 grams of protein. The chicken cutlet poached in it carries 27, and the finished bowl lands at 45 grams for 463 calories, with no coconut milk.
One saucepan, a cup of cocoa, 16 squares at 195 calories each. Natural cocoa carries nearly nine times the flavanols of a heavily Dutched tin — and with no baking soda here, either bakes the same.
Golden garlic in good olive oil, glossed onto al dente spaghetti with starchy pasta water — the earliest printed recipe, in Cavalcanti's 1837 Naples treatise, used just two cloves. Ours uses six.