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Vegan Sardou

Vegan Sardou PinThis Vegan Sardou is a real treat. It’s relatively easy to prepare and tastes absolutely delicious. It’s filling, rich, creamy and has a variety of flavors to tease your tastebuds.

The traditional Eggs Sardou is a Louisiana Creole dish that features poached eggs over roasted artichokes and creamed spinach, and topped with hollandaise sauce. That means it has about a bazillion calories and a pound of cholesterol.

However, our delicious Vegan Sardou only has 324 calories per serving, and since there’s no animal products, you get zero grams of cholesterol!

Despite being a combination of four different recipes, it only takes about 20 minutes to prepare since you can cook them all at the same time. Here are the four recipes you’ll need to make this dish:

You can also prepare the Easy Tofu Scramble and/or the Vegan Hollandaise Sauce ahead of time and heat them up when you’re ready to assemble the Vegan Sardou.

The Easy Tofu Scramble recipe makes enough for 4 servings, but this recipe only uses 2 servings. That means you’ll have leftovers, or you can have 1/2 the scrambled tofu for breakfast one morning and use the rest for your Vegan Sardou on the following morning.

The Vegan Hollandaise Sauce makes about 8 servings at 2 tbsp per serving. It’ll keep in the refrigerator for up to a week, or you can freeze it for up to two months. It goes great drizzled over Steamed Asparagus, too. Yum!

Vegan Sardou Instructional Video

If you make this recipe, please let us know your thoughts in the comments below. And please share with your friends to help spread the word about healthy plant based eating.

Easy Tofu Scramble

Easy Tofu Scramble PinIf you’re in a hurry or if you need an Easy Tofu Scramble for your Vegan Sardou, this is the perfect recipe. It only takes a couple of minutes to prepare once you’ve pressed the tofu and it’s a great substitute for any scrambled egg recipe.

Contrary to what the dairy industry will have you believe, tofu and soy are very healthy foods. They’ve been consumed in asian countries for millennia and are strongly associated with positive health outcomes.

Most of the negative publicity soy gets was created by the dairy industry to protect their profits from soy milk. All of those myths have since been proven false, but that doesn’t keep them from being perpetuated.

My favorite myth is that the estrogen (actually phytoestrogen) found in soy will cause gynecomastia (aka man-boobs or moobs). In psychology, this is called projection, which occurs when “humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.”

Phytoestrogen is different than mammal estrogen. Phytoestrogens have been shown to help prevent or reduce diabetes, several forms of cancer, blood cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.

Plant estrogen doesn’t behave the same way as mammal estrogen, but you know what has loads of mammal estrogen? Cow’s milk. Unlike phytoestrogens, cow estrogen found in dairy looks just like human estrogen, which may actually cause moobs, as well as male infertility, several forms of cancer, osteoporosis, erectile disfunction, and heart disease. Dairy also exposes us to toxic chemicals that make their way up the food chain and get stored in the fat in milk.

When the dairy industry started the myth that phytoestrogens cause moobs, they were actually projecting the real negative qualities of dairy onto a naturally healthy food, soy. But when a competitor like soy milk threatens your bottom line, you do whatever it takes to protect the interests of your investors even if that means funding false or misleading studies, as well as organizations that promote them.

Rant over…

Our regular Tofu Scramble recipe has a higher nutritional content because it’s loaded with mushrooms, hearty greens and colorful bell peppers. If you have the time and ingredients, you might like that even more.

Easy Tofu Scramble Instructional Video

If you make this recipe, please let us know your thoughts in the comments below. And please share with your friends to help spread the word about healthy plant based eating.

Oven Roasted Red Potatoes

Roasted Red PotatoesThis Oven Roasted Red Potatoes recipe is a fast, easy and delicious side dish that goes with just about anything. It’s especially good as a side dish with your Tofu Scramble or Vegan Lentil Burger.

This recipe calls for 1/2 pound of red potatoes, but you can easily double the recipe and have plenty of leftovers for the week.

Leave the skins on. They have lots of extra fiber and nutrients.

You can make it using 2 tsp of olive oil without the vegetable broth, but we recommend using oil and vegetable broth together to cut back on the calories and add more flavor.

Like so many of our recipes, this one may have a hard time making it to your plate. We tend to eat most of them while we’re getting everything else ready. May you have better luck with these as a side dish instead of an appetizer!

If you make this recipe, please let us know your thoughts in the comments below. And please share with your friends to help spread the word about healthy plant based eating.

Tofu Scramble

Tofu ScrambleMy first attempt at a Tofu Scramble was a combination of recipes that I found online. Turning a block of tofu into “scrambled eggs” isn’t exactly common sense for someone who’s never done it before so I needed some help.

Some of the recipes were good, but the instructions were really lacking. The cooks who wrote them take for granted that new plant-based eaters need everything explained. That’s what I’ll aim to do here. If anything is confusing, please let me know so I can fix it.

If you serve this delicious tofu scramble to someone and don’t tell them it’s tofu, I doubt they’ll know. It looks and tastes just like scrambled eggs. I like to put some salsa on mine with a side of oven roasted red potatoes and a glass of unsweetened cashew milk. Very tasty.

The turmeric is the key to the scrambled eggs color. A half a teaspoon is all you need for a standard block of tofu. Any more and the tofu scramble is too yellow. Any less and it’s not yellow enough.

Indian or Himalayan Black Salt is another vegan trick ingredient to simulate an egg taste and smell. It contains sulfur and actually smells like hard boiled eggs. Indian Black Salt is different than Hawaiian Black Salt or Black Lava Salt so you can’t interchange the two.

If you make this recipe, please let us know your thoughts in the comments below. And please share with your friends to help spread the word about healthy plant based eating.