Vegeterian food. Where to start?

[Nemo]

That looks yum, Life.

 

[foody518]

@Life - you're using pancake in terms of savory pancakes, not sweet, right? Due to lack of a good English word parsing out what these are called in their respective native languages. Like Korean 'jeon' or Chinese 'bing'

 

[LifeByA1000Cuts]

That is the unleavened type, with turmeric, onions, ginger, garlic and curry spices, and ca. 1/5th rice flour. No wheat flour or eggs at all.

 

[LifeByA1000Cuts]

Oh, you could make a sweet pancake that way too - the chickpea taste gets buried easily under fruity aromas (and most of them work with a nutty taste anyway) and sugar. But yeah, I tend to mean both sweet and savory when I say pancakes. And even I wouldn't be so wack as to arrange sweet pancakes on salad.

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I think salad (and soup)toppings are one of the surprisingly tricky topics in vegan food The hidden truth: Pure vegetable (as in, literal vegetables) salads don't work, taste balance wise (unless you use VERY fresh and tasty greens, or so much dressing that you make a cold soup). We want fat, starch, protein in a meal - I think if you make it taste balanced without, you are skilled but actually creating something low-calorie but unhealthy Cooked beans as a topping violate modern emissions standards. Tofu, tempeh, seitan only work in the capacity if you put so much work into marination and cooking that you could just as well make a hot dish. Storebought vegan cheeses or processed meat substitutes just feel wrong.

 

[foody518]

Thanks Life

Feel similar to you on salads. I don't bother with em most the time. One exception somewhat recently was an attempt at making goi chay that went alright. Very fresh
http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-goi-chay-67437

 

[Nemo]

I think salad (and soup)toppings are one of the surprisingly tricky topics in vegan food The hidden truth: Pure vegetable (as in, literal vegetables) salads don't work, taste balance wise (unless you use VERY fresh and tasty greens, or so much dressing that you make a cold soup). We want fat, starch, protein in a meal - I think if you make it taste balanced without, you are skilled but actually creating something low-calorie but unhealthy Cooked beans as a topping violate modern emissions standards. Tofu, tempeh, seitan only work in the capacity if you put so much work into marination and cooking that you could just as well make a hot dish. Storebought vegan cheeses or processed meat substitutes just feel wrong.

This is a clever solution to the problem of getting protein into a vegan salad.

 

[foody518]

This is a clever solution to the problem of getting protein into a vegan salad.

Tbf as a % of total calories, greens usually are decent in protein. They just utterly lack caloric density (calories vs weight), leading to your typical all veg salad being a calorie deficient meal unless you go hard on the dressing

 

[Nemo]

Tbf as a % of total calories, greens usually are decent in protein. They just utterly lack caloric density (calories vs weight), leading to your typical all veg salad being a calorie deficient meal unless you go hard on the dressing

I must say, I've never really looked up the macronutrient composition of veggies. I had assumed that they were mainly fibre and carbohydrate, so that is interesting information.

I do like some oil or fat in my salads. Having said that, the odd calorie deficeint meat is probably not a bad idea. OTOH if you are eating this sort of food constantly, you might need to keep the calorie count up, I guess.

 

[foody518]

Weird, right? Of the whole plant foods, it's really the fruits that are low in protein as a % its total calories.

Most times I center meals around starches (a comfortable caloric density, good micronutrient content, carb content, some fiber) for decent satiety, and am recently trending more towards smaller and more frequent meals/consuming food over a longer period of time spread out

 

[Nemo]

Weird, right? Of the whole plant foods, it's really the fruits that are low in protein as a % its total calories.

Makes sense once you think about it though. Fruit has a loooot of sugars in it in general. Obviously fruits like avocado and olives are exceptions that have a lot of fat in them. And yes, I guess fruits do tend to be a bit more calorie dense than most veggies.