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Cheap & Easy, Desserts, Recipes, Snacks, Vegan on a Budget

Sweet Pancakes

Sweet pancakes are really very easy to make vegan!

Ingredients 

  • Self-raising flour (2 mugs full)
  • Sultanas (½ mug full)
  • Apple juice
  • Soya milk (1 mug full)
  • Banana 
  • Oil

Method

Soak sultanas in apple juice overnight in a small pan. This plumps them up, and they will be ready to put on the pancakes. 

The principle is to have a non-stick pan with a dessertspoon of vegetable or rapeseed oil (olive oil is also fine, but don’t burn it), heated very hot without the oil smoking. Heat slowly, on a low to medium heat.

In a medium bowl, take 2 mugs of flour. Then measure out approx 1 mug full of soya milk, and add to the flour slowly and steadily,  stirring fast to avoid lumps. You are aiming for a pouring cream consistency. 

When the oil is hot, add approximately half a mug full of mixture to the frying pan. Tip the pan slightly to try to create a round shape,  but try to leave space around the edge of the pan, so you can flip it. After about 3 minutes, check the pancake is golden brown underneath, then flip with a spatula. 

In the meantime, mash the banana with a fork. 

When each pancake becomes ready, you can cover them with a plate to keep them warm together. Ensure the oil is hot when you come to do the next pancake. 

Fill the pancakes with banana and plump sultanas (hot or cold). Alternatively, you could use the traditional lemon and sugar topping.

Costings

To give an estimation of prices for ingredients bought in a supermarket, self-raising flour is approximately 80p for 1.5kg, and soya milk is approximately £1 for a litre. One banana is about 20p, and sultanas are £1.80 for 500g packet.  A litre of apple juice is about 85p. Therefore to make 4 pancakes, the overall cost should be £1.40

Reduce waste

There will be leftover ingredients – to reduce waste, use the flour within a couple of months in cakes, biscuits, veggie burgers and flatbreads. Sultanas can be used as snacks instead of sweets, and soya milk is good in tea and on cereal.

Recipes, Snacks

Vegetable samosas

Samosas and bhajis at our World Cookery Demo, June 2019

Ingredients

  • Frozen mixed veg
  • 1 onion (chopped)
  • 2 cloves of garlic (grated)
  • fresh ginger grated 1oz
  • veg oil/ olive oil for cooking
  • 2tsp cumin (ground)
  • 1tsp (cumin whole)
  • 1tsp turmeric powder
  • 1/2 tsp chilli powder (can add more depending on how hot wanted)
  • 2fresh chilliest (optional)
  • handful of sultanas
  • handful of freshly chopped coriander
  • 1tsp of salt.

Instructions

Put oil in a pan in medium heat until oil is hot add whole cumin and chopped onion, cook until onions soft add rest of the ingredients except the sultanas, stairwell, and leave it in low heat until it is cooked. Sultanas canbe added 15min after.
Filo pastry (can get ready made from supermarket), veg oil for pastry, veg oil for frying (optional), as an cook in the oven gas mark 4 or 180c (15-20min)

Fold a samosa using filo
Need to make sure to brush a little oil on to the pastry.
Cut the pastry into 3-5cm strips and then place a spoonful of filling in the bottom right corner of the pastry strip. Fold the pastry into a triangle to begin enclosing the filling. Continue folding triangles and then tuck the final edge inside the samosa to seal, trimming any excess pastry if necessary. Samosas can be cooked in the oven or deep fry.
Recipes, Snacks

Pesto Pastries

Method:

  1. Cut a block of Jus Rol puff pastry into 8 squares and roll out.
  2. Spread pesto, chopped sun dried tomatoes, chopped olives and grated cheese on top.
  3. Turn pastry to a diamond shape and bring the 2  corners into the middle, sealing well.
  4. Cook on 180′ for 20 mins or so.

Recipe: Hilary from 3 Valley Vegans

Recipes, Snacks

Cheesy Rolls

Method:

  1. Cut a block of Jus Rol (green packet) pastry in half then roll each piece into an oblong.
  2. Spread  pesto* all over, add grated cheese, a few sun dried tomatoes and chopped black olives.
  3. Roll up tightly from the long end, then cut into 3″ lengths, sealing well .
  4. Brush with plant milk and cook on 180′ for 20 mins or so.

* Vegan pesto can be found in most supermarkets and health food shops.

Recipe: Hilary from 3 Valley Vegans

Main dishes, Recipes, Snacks

Pizzas

Ingredients:

Easy pizza dough …

  • 375 g plain flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 dsp caster sugar
  • 7 g (1 small packet or 3 tsp)dried yeast
  • 2 tbs olive oil
  • 225 ml warm water

Method:

  1. Mix all dry ingredient, then add liquids.
  2. Bring together and knead briefly in the bowl.
  3. Leave for an hour or more to rise.
  4. Knead a little, then roll into 2 large pizzas or 12 small ones.
  5. Top with tomato puree / pasta sauce, then toppings of choice – mushrooms, courgettes, peppers,spinach etc
  6. Sprinkle on some chopped olives and grated vegan cheese.
  7. Cook on 200′ for 15 – 20 mins, depending on your oven.

Recipe: Hilary from 3 Valley Vegans

Snacks

Veggie Lunch Meat

Ingredients:

  •  1 cup white beans
  •  2 cups water
  •  1/4 cup oil
  •  2 tsp salt
  •  2 tsp paprika
  •  2 tsp onion powder
  •  1 tsp garlic
  •  1/4 tsp tumeric
  •  1 tsp ground fennel
  •  1 tsp sage
  •  1 tsp pepper
  •  1 tsp soy sauce
  •  2 3/4 cup vital wheat gluten

Method:

Get water steaming in your steamer.
  1. Place all ingredients except the gluten flour in a blender and process until smooth.
  2. Pour into a bowl. Add gluten flour and work into a dough.
  3. Shape dough into a log and wrap in heavy duty foil. Try to make the roll as thick as possible. Steam for 1 hour.
  4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees in the last 15 mins of steaming. Remove seitan from steamer and bake for 45-60 mins. Seitan should swell and press against the foil.
  5. Cool and slice as needed for sandwiches. This seitan holds up very well and can be shaved very thin. Store in the fridge

Recipe by Vegan Dad