| For any of the many reasons people choose to | | | | grape seed.The next critical ingredient of |
| eat | | | | vegetarian food that |
| vegetarian food - religion, politics, finances, or | | | | tastes fabulous is really simple: use sea salt. |
| health - | | | | Although |
| one thing in common is that everyone prefers | | | | any kind of salt will enhance the flavor of most |
| food that | | | | foods, sea |
| tastes delicious and provides good nutrition. There | | | | salt is best. It naturally contains minerals, while it |
| are | | | | doesn't contain the nasty chemicals of regular |
| some basic techniques to vegetarian cooking | | | | processed |
| which will | | | | table salt. Important to note~ use salt *during* |
| accomplish that.There is a range of | | | | the |
| vegetarianism. From the vegan to the | | | | cooking instead of waiting until after serving the |
| person who eats meat on rare occasions. Some | | | | food. |
| people | | | | This makes a difference in the final quality of the |
| consider themselves basically vegetarian if they | | | | dish |
| never eat | | | | because cooking is chemistry. Remember back |
| red meat, but do eat fish and chicken once in a | | | | to your high |
| while. | | | | school chemistry classes: the order of combining |
| Other vegetarians eat animal products like eggs | | | | the |
| and dairy, | | | | elements, and the application of heat to the |
| but never the animal itself. A vegan is at the far | | | | mixture could |
| end of | | | | make a tremendous difference to the results of |
| the continuum, rejecting animal products entirely. | | | | the |
| Vegans | | | | experiment!The third tip for vegetarian cooking is |
| won't eat mayonnaise because it's made using | | | | obvious, yet needs |
| eggs, for | | | | emphasis. Use lots of vegetables! You can't |
| example.Wherever you are on the continuum of | | | | over-do |
| vegetarianism, you | | | | vegetables in your diet - the greater the range |
| want your food to taste good, be satisfying, and | | | | and color, |
| provide | | | | the better. Use leafy veg (lettuce, spinach, and |
| good nutrition. Here are some methods for | | | | chard), |
| cooking | | | | root veg (yams, carrots, potatoes, turnips), and |
| vegetarian to meet those basic requirements.To | | | | the stems |
| begin, if you are making some dish that is actually | | | | and seed carriers of veg (for example celery, |
| a | | | | eggplant, |
| meat-based recipe, such as chili con carne, stop | | | | peppers, zucchini). Buy organic veg if you can |
| substituting textured vegetable protein for the | | | | because |
| meat and | | | | they really do taste better, and of course they |
| leaving the rest of the recipe unaltered. The | | | | provide |
| result never | | | | better nutrition because they are gown in |
| tastes quite right, and you've been robbed of the | | | | healthy, 'clean' |
| pleasure | | | | dirt.Take any vegetable and bean soup recipe, |
| of good food: it's neither meat nor properly | | | | and follow these |
| vegetarian. | | | | three simple principles: saut~ the veg in the right |
| Furthermore, you haven't gained in terms of | | | | oil, |
| health or | | | | cook the beans in sea-salted water, use a |
| economy. Soy is the primary ingredient of | | | | variety of |
| textured | | | | organic vegetables, and you'll have a rich delicious |
| vegetable protein, tofu, and tempeh. These are | | | | soup. |
| usually | | | | These simple tips make a big difference. Take |
| high in fat, high in processing, and fairly high in | | | | my word for |
| cost. | | | | it, or do a little test. Use the same list of |
| Not much better than organically raised meat, if | | | | ingredients, |
| at all. | | | | but don't saut~ in oil, add the salt at the table, |
| So if chili con carne is what you want, buy | | | | and use |
| organic meat | | | | conventionally grown veg. The result will be |
| and enjoy it! Otherwise, cook a delicious soup | | | | inferior - |
| using red | | | | still nutritious, but bland rather than satisfying, and |
| beans that doesn't pretend it's chili con carne.The | | | | that's a shame because the few simple |
| key to good vegetarian soup is to use oil. Even if | | | | techniques described |
| you prefer low fat, your body does require fats | | | | here can make your vegetarian cooking |
| for healthy | | | | consistently |
| metabolism. And it definitely enhances the quality | | | | terrific.Articles by Nora Poulous on topics related |
| and | | | | to cooking are |
| flavor of any vegetarian soup when some of the | | | | published in Z Cooking |
| vegetables | | | | News the leading resource on-line for information |
| (onions in particular) are saut~ed. Use an oil that's | | | | about |
| liquid at room temperature, such as olive, | | | | cooking. |
| vegetable, or | | | | |