Recipe Category Archives: Garden Vegetable Levana Meal Replacement

Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe. Gluten-Free friendly

By on January 20, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

spaghetti and meatballs

Spaghetti meatballs in my house are like a whole outing:

Sort of like Dinner and a Show. Party food and comfort food all rolled into one. We all used to pile into my mother-in-law’s small apartment for her famous spaghetti meatballs, and always lied to her that somehow ours didn’t come out as good as hers: Anything to have her make a vat of it, which would disappear in minutes. All the children in our family still clamor for it and feed it to their own children.

Do not hesitate to experiment with gluten-free noodles:

Rice, soba, quinoa noodles, beans noodles etc… just as I do: delicious and much gentler on your system!

You will be able to have pasta more often!

And not just in spaghetti meatballs, but many other pasta treats as well. It’s been years since I last had wheat noodles, and I don’t miss anything about them one bit, least of all the bloating and discomfort that used to follow each white pasta meal as surely as night follows day. Many of us look to reduce their gluten intake, even without converting to an all-out gluten-free diet.

Don’t skip adding warm water to the meatball mixture!

Or even seltzer: this is the secret of my extra light and extra fluffy meatballs! forget about bread crumbs. I never use them in my meatball mixtures.

The dish freezes well:

Make the whole recipe, and freeze the unused portion, without the noodles.

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Plantain Chicken Curry Recipe

By on January 20, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

chicken curry

This chicken curry star tomatoes and plantains.

Please do not substitute canned tomatoes—there will be a huge difference, and there’s no reason to settle.

Plantains come in two varieties: green to medium ripe and even riper.

The former are used as vegetables in stews while the latter are sweeter and less starchy, reserved for sweet side dishes and desserts.
If you not familiar with plantains, my chicken curry affords you a wonderful introduction; they are quite a match for the tomatoes.

Consider this chicken curry a complete main course.

The plantains are nice and porous, and will be happy to absorb the curry sauce. You will find them a welcome change to the usual starch like noodles or rice.

The dish freezes well!

Make the full recipe, and freeze the unused portion.

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Moroccan Lentil Soup Recipe. All Variations

By on January 20, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Nourishments

lentil soup

Lentil soup is something I believe I couldn’t live without:

I love lentils, in any shape or form. Lentil soup costs pennies and takes minutes, and tastes like a million bucks: You just can’t miss with these assertive flavors!

All my favorite flavors are in, and I make my lentil soup totally meatless, so I can enjoy it a lot more often, the vegetarian way

Scroll down for the meat lentil soup variation!

It is also very versatile: Using the exact same base, you might want to substitute other grains for the lentils, just as long as they need no soaking and don’t take longer to cook (barley, azuki, brown rice, mung, etc). Although the lentil variation is the classic go-to, I find all variations worth trying, and good occasions to explore with other highly nutritious grains.

All variations suggested below, except for the bulghur soup) are gluten-free.

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Easy Unstuffed Cabbage Recipe

By on January 20, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

unstuffed cabbage

Unstuffed cabbage? UN-Stuffed? I’m there!

Unstuffed cabbage is very liberating: It is so easy to make and just as delicious than stuffed cabbage. Not as pristine looking as its rolled cousins, but I don’t care. Do you? Cabbage, tomatoes, rice, meat (or even no meat for a fantastic vegetarian stuffed cabbage variation) guarantee a great dish.

Don’t get me wrong, I love stuffed cabbage and the rolls are so pretty!

But they are somewhat time-consuming. Chances are, when you realize that unstuffed cabbage is every bit as delicious as stuffed cabbage, you might make it more often, as I do!

Unstuffed cabbage is sort of like Sloppy Joes with a super healthy twist.

Let the food processor do your chopping and slicing, so the prep is a breeze!

Serve it on top of noodles or mashed potatoes, or even pureed white root vegetables (celery root, parsnips, turnips etc…) to mop all your sauce: Gd Forbid you should loose a drop of it!

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Vegan Hollandaise Sauce Recipe

By on January 18, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

vegan hollandaise sauce

Vegan Hollandaise Sauce:

I am often told mine feels like a delicious blast from the past for all diners who cannot enjoy dairy products any more, as well as those trying to restrict their egg intake.

Gluten-Free to boot, without even trying! In one fell swoop, here is all my Vegan Hollandaise Sauce accomplishes:

  • It tastes fabulous. As close as humanly possible to the original Classical Hollandaise Sauce counterpart.
  • It is all natural.
  • It is whipped up in a minute.
  • It is missing only that stuff we want in minute amounts or sometimes not at all: Egg yolks and cream.
  • It is raw: None of the slavery associated with the making of traditional Hollandaise Sauce (double boiling, whisking, risk of curdling and whatnot. Please.)

Perfect example of where to use my Vegan Hollandaise Sauce:

Eggs Benedict. Eggs Benedict are a great brunch classic favorite, verboten both for our dairy-intolerant friends and for everyone who keeps kosher and can’t combine dairy and meat products in one meal, let alone in one dish. The classic Hollandaise Sauce is the savory counterpart of the equally rich and seductive Creme Brulee (Sigh. Another Parsha. For another day). People always tell me that Eggs Benedict are a wonderful splurge. As a nutrition purist, I decided to tinker with my own dairy-free, kosher-friendly, and best of all, lean and quick guidelines in mind.

With my Vegan Hollandaise Sauce, I turned the off-limits Eggs Benedict dish into a Natural Dairy-Free and Kosher treat you can actually afford to eat and enjoy quite often.

Just in passing, Kudos to smoked turkey breast, which can always be counted on for replacing ham and all smoked pork products, which is great news not just for Kosher diners, but for all diners eschewing pork products: Halal diners and many others, you’ll be pleasantly surprised! It has become increasingly easy to procure all-natural no-nitrates smoked turkey products, do look for them! Scroll down for my Eggs Benedict Recipe made with my Vegan Hollandaise Sauce!

What else can you do with my Vegan Hollandaise Sauce?

Plenty! Use it on asparagus, on poached chicken breasts, on baked or poached fish,  or as a dip with a little added curry powder, to name just a few treats. No one will ever know they are eating something that is so good for them! Never mind what the heavy-cream- egg-yolks Hollandaise Sauce aficionados will say: My All-Natural Raw Vegan Hollandaise Sauce works, and that’s what counts! A friend of mine, who has just undergone heart surgery, told me how delighted he was to be reunited with this great favorite food of his. Talk about going to one’s heart through one’s stomach!

Dairy-free yogurt. While it is not, in my opinion, good enough to eat plain (sorry!), it lends itself to many wonderful combinations and takes on the other great flavors it is paired with. I think you will be as amazed as I am! You will easily find soy or coconut yogurt in health food stores.

Eggs Benny: The lox version.

This variation uses smoked salmon instead of smoked turkey. No problem making the sauce with dairy yogurt if dairy is not problem to you.

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