First time making Thanksgiving meal.
Recipes details down below –
Starter –
MAC AND CHEESE
Ingredients –
500grams macaroni
200grams Cashew nuts
1/4 of medium yellow onion
1 large garlic clove or 2 small ones
Olive oil
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
1 tsp Paprika
1/2 cup Nutritional yeast (optional)
Cooking –
Macaroni –
Cover the macaroni with water about 3 inches and add 1tbsp of olive oil and salt. Cover with lid, out it on the highest heat. Once it gets to the boiling point turn it to the lowest heat and leave it to simmer for 15 min.
For the sauce –
Put the cashew nuts in a pot and cover with water . Get it to the boiling point and take of the heat, leave it to soak for about 30min.
Get the cashews in the blender and barely cover them with water. Add salt, pepper, paprika and nutritional yeast.
Fry / sweat the onions and garlic in 1tbsp olive oil for about 3-4 min. Add them to the blender. Blend it all until smooth!
Mix the sauce into macaroni.
Main course –
GARLIC POTATO MASH
MUSHROOM GRAVY
SMOKY ROASTED CHICKPEAS AND GREEN BEANS
Ingredients-
For Garlic Potato mash –
1,5 kg potatoes
1,5 tbsp Coconut oil
50-100ml almond milk (optional)
Salt (to taste)
pepper (to taste)
paprika
4 medium garlic cloves (minced)
Cooking –
Boil the potatoes in some salty water with a little bit of oil until soft. Put it aside. Half of the water from the potatoes set aside for the mushroom gravy. Add the minced garlic , salt, pepper, paprika, coconut oil and almond milk. Mash the potatoes.
MUSHROOM AND ONION GRAVY –
250 grams chestnut mushrooms thinly sliced
1 large onion thinly sliced
Salt
Pepper
Soy sauce
2 tsp cornflour mixed in 50 ml cold water
Fry / sweat the onions for 3-4 min. Add mushrooms and season them with salt, pepper, soy sauce. Cook them for about 10 min. Add half of the potato water to the mushrooms. Cook for another 2 min and add the mixture of corn flour and water and stir. Simmer it for another 5 min.
SMOKY ROASTED CHICKPEAS AND GREEN BEANS
Ingredients –
400 grams can of chickpeas
200 grams of fresh green beans
1 tsp oregano
Salt
Pepper
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp cumin
Olive oil
Cooking –
Heat up the pan to medium high heat and spay a little bit of olive oil.
Add drained chickpeas to the pan. Start roasting them. Keep spraying some olive oil once it looks too dry or like it might burn.
Roast them for at least 5 min and then add the green beans. Continue spraying the olive oil once in a while. Roast for another 8-10 min.
Add the seasonings and mix it all.
DESSERT –
FRESH FRUIT WITH SPICED TOASTED OATS AND ALMOND FLAKES
Per person
1 apple
1 pear
1 orange
1/4 cup oats
1/4 almond flakes
Spice mix –
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp all spice
1/2 cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
olive oil
1 tbsp Coconut sugar or any other sugar
Cooking –
Heat up the pan. Spray some olive oil. Start toasting oats and almond flakes on medium high heat. Keep spraying some olive oil and mixing it.Toast it for about 5 min. Add the spices and vanilla once it’s done. Cut up the fruit in any size you desire.
Sprinkle the toasted oats and almonds on to the fruit.
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