Meatless Christmas menu for vegans

Christmas feasting without goose

18/12/2014

A Christmas menu without meat or fish is unthinkable for many people. There are many delicious and exciting vegan recipes that do not require any animal ingredients. In conversation with the news agency „dpa“ explain to authors of vegan cookbooks how to give a tasty meatless Christmas menu a special touch.

Festive Christmas with vegan menus
Dishes like roast goose, potato salad with sausages or carp are for many Germans „Got to“ on the holidays. Jean-Christian Jury, owner of the vegan Berlin restaurant La Mano Verde and author of vegan cookbooks, knows but good meatless alternatives. So a vegan menu should be similar to a conventional, which in a five-course menu entree appetizer, soup, intermediate, main course and dessert. It is important that the individual courses with regard to the ingredients, the preparation and the appearance differ.

For the jury, which also runs a cooking school, mushrooms are the top ingredient of wintry vegan cuisine. Caesarians and morels have been particularly impressed by the expert in meatless dishes, for example when they are prepared with cream sauce made from vegan cream, such as oat or soy cream. For the main course he recommends tempeh, carrots and Steinplize in combination with Brussels sprouts and chestnut purée. Tempeh is a product of soybeans that are treated with noble molds. It has a particularly high protein content and tastes slightly nutty and mushy.

Suitable meat substitutes are vegan lupine steaks in the Christmas menu
Roland Rauter is also the author of vegan cookbooks. His suggestion for a meatless Christmas menu: carrot soup with coconut-ginger-foam as an appetizer, beech mushrooms on a light garlic sauce on potato rösti as an intermediate, stewed parsley root on sweet potato puree as a main course and chocolate cranberry cranberry compote for dessert.

Who prefers to prepare Christmas classics in a vegan version, also has a large selection of delicious dishes. According to Rauter, porcini mushroom dumplings with red cabbage salad and black tea jelly are a good meatless alternative. Instead of conventional milk, vegetable broth and soy cream are used for the dumpling dough and egg is dispensed with. The onions can be sautéed in rapeseed oil, so that the butter is replaced. The remaining ingredients are the same as a classic dumpling.

As a meat substitute Rauter advises the news agency to lupine steaks, the one „tender and slightly nutty flavor. "Lupoine beans are rich in protein and minerals, and are low in calories. „Rose petals are always an eye-catcher. "

Classic Christmas dishes can be prepared in a vegan version
„Many classic Christmas dishes such as red cabbage, kale, duck potatoes and dumplings also fit well into vegan cuisine, "explains bestselling author Attila Hildmann to the news agency, adding that the Christmas spices such as cinnamon, clove and cardamom are perfectly integrated into meatless dishes, as Hildmann recommends Lasagne with pumpkin and cinnamon filling with brussel sprouts and almond cream made from white almond paste, mineral water, sea salt and black pepper To enhance vegan dishes, roasted macadamia nuts, truffles, special spices such as saffron or high-quality seed oil can be used.

For the „bite“ Tofu can serve as a meat alternative. „The sacred evening classic potato salad with sausages goes well with tofu sausage. "By the way: Rauter does not reveal to skeptical guests, if it is a vegan menu. „To put down and let eat. "The vegan gourmet kitchen convince with their taste.

Vegan Christmas menus are usually lower in calories than classic dishesVegan Christmas dishes have a distinct advantage over classics like roast goose: they are usually significantly lower in calories and cholesterol. If you want to pay attention to your slim line during the holidays, you will find it in the numerous vegan cookbooks that are now available. There are also numerous recipe pages for vegan dishes on the internet. (Ag)