Vegan meals don’t have to be boring, you can have fun with your cooking. Enjoy the process, it calming and nourishing when you are passionate. Taking a vegan cookery course can help you to learn how to cook diverse meals. Here are some top tips on cooking vegan meals.
Spice it Up
It’s time to use your spice rack, first place the spice on your tongue so that you know what you’re adding to your dish. Be creative don’t rely on a recipe to tell you what spices to use. Have the common spices with you such as smoked paprika, garlic, turmeric, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, caraway seeds, etc. With a small space, you can grow fresh herbs like mint, basil, sage, oregano, and parsley.
Add rosemary and sage to roasted potatoes to bring a different taste and flavor. Remember that herbs and spices were considered a powerful medicine. Basil was to help purify blood and cinnamon helps stabilize blood sugar. Herbs and spices bring certain qualities in a meal, balance a dish and honor a culture or influence. Hot spices are used in oily meals to help digest the fat.
Season It
You need to learn to season your food. Salt makes our food taste delicious, all the flavors burst ok your tongue without the taste of the salt. The key thing is to smell the food first, if the smell is delicious it is very likely the food is delicious too. Use the best quality sea salt you can afford.
Sea salt enhances your health by lowering sodium chloride compared to the normal table salt that is more refined. Use fresh lemon, lime juice, apple cider vinegar, balsamic vinegar, zest, or champagne vinegar to bring a dish to life. Adding an acid to your food does more than boosting flavor, it helps indigestion. Citrus juice and vinegar can turn a mild dish into a soar-flavored dish.
Mix it Up
Combining raw and cooked ingredients is what you need to bring a meal to life. It alters the energy of the dish by creating interesting textures and flavors. When you mix cooked and raw ingredients you give a foundation to the dish and when you mix raw ingredients into cooked you make the dish feel lighter.
The dish is elevated by having different temperatures for example cold oranges stirred into warm greens with different textures can automatically make the dish sparkle. In cooler weather make roasted potatoes in a raw salad or cold oranges in slightly steamed greens.
Keep it Simple and Fresh
Try as much as possible to use fresh seasonal produce available in the market. Freshly harvested veggies and fruits are very tasty. Berries are more intense, kale more tender, tomatoes are sweet and squash, peas, leeks, and asparagus are mild.
Find the farmers that are involved in farming organically or grow vegetables and fruits without spraying. This way you will be guaranteed the best quality at reasonable prices. Hang out at your local market and connect with people who grow it you will also be supporting rural economic stability.