Weekend Cooking: Veggie Challenge Week 3

As I told in my starting post, I will be participating in the VeggieChallenge. This is a Dutch initiative to make people aware and challenge them to consume less meat, fish and animal products for a month. People are allowed to set their own challenge. Like going meatless for 1 day a week, or for the whole week, it is all possible. Because I already eat vegetarian most of the time, I decided to challenge myself to eat vegan for 2 days a week in July. This is my 3rd week already!

My two vegan days were Tuesday en Wednesday and this is what I ate:

Tuesday:
Breakfast: Vegan bread with chocolate sprinkles
Lunch: Vegan bread with peanut butter and cucumber
Dinner: Mashed potatoes and fennel with a tofu loaf and peas
Snacks: Lemon poppyseed muffins and vegan chocolate chip cookies

Wednesday:
Breakfast: Vegan bread with chocolate sprinkles
Lunch: Vegan bread with mashed avocado, vegan mayonnaise and black pepper
Dinner: Masala burgers from Everyday Happy Herbivore
Snack: Lemon poppyseed muffins and a pizza toastie

Recipes:
The recipe for the lemon poppyseed muffins, I already posted last Monday! You can see it here. They are damn tasty and my BF also liked them very much.

Masala Burgers: (makes 4-5) - adapted from Everyday Happy Herbivore
- 425 gr kidney beans (without fluids)
- 1 spring onion, chopped
- 3 tbsp ketchup
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/3 cup breadcrumbs (use vegan bread!)
- Masala mayo (see below)
- Vegan buns for serving
- Avocado for serving

Mash up the beans and add spices, onion and ketchup and combine. Shape 4-5 patties and place them on a baking sheet. Bake the patties in the oven at 375F/190C (180C for microwave oven) for 10 minutes. Flip them gently and bake for 8 minutes more. If needed flip again and bake for 5 minutes more. Serve on a bun with masala mayo and whatever veggies you want. I used avocado this time.

Masala Mayonnaise: 
- 1 tbsp vegan mayo (I used this recipe from Gnoe as my base)
- 2 tbsp ketchup
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp coriander
- 1/2 tsp cumin

Mix everything together and taste. Adjust spices if needed.

Pizza toastie: (grilled sammy)
- tomato tapenade
- few slices of mushroom
- dash of Italian herbs
- 2 slices vegan bread

Grill the mushrooms for a bit on the panini maker. Then just build a sammy from these ingredients and grill on the panini maker for a few minutes :)

Things I encountered:
- I finally took on vegan baking, yay me ;)
- I begin to fal into a vegan routine of easy breakfast and lunch and a more experimental dinner. This was not what I planned to do, however because I have a limited amount of energy, I have to make choices. This week I chose to bake ;)
- Now I have some basics set up, keeping it up gets easier and easier.

Because July is a long month, I have about 2 weeks left of the VeggieChallenge because I make my menu's on Thursdays. I am in fact a bit sad that it is going so fast ;)


This post is part of Weekend Cooking. Make sure to check out all the other posts! There is always a lot of yummy things to try! 

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