You can whip up a delicious, cool, classic Spanish style soup in just 10 minutes in your blender or food processor. This Classic Gazpacho is filled with the tastes of summer—tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, herbs, and garlic. Simply light and healthful, this recipe is plant-based (vegan), gluten-free, added sugar-free, and can easily be made without oil …
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Who says chili has to be a cool weather dish? Pack your plant-based chili with loads of vegetables, give it a “meaty” texture thanks to steel cut oats (yes, steel cut oats!), spice it up with herbs and spices, and top it with farm fresh produce, like avocados and cilantro, and you’ve just discovered your …
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Here’s a perfect easy dish for your next Meatless Monday: Smoky Lentil Chili. The recipe is 100% plant-based (vegan) and gluten-free, perfect for everyone at your dining table. Lentils require no soaking, and cook up faster than beans. So, you can mix up the ingredients for this dish in a pot in just a few …
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Turn to your Instant Pot to make an easy, healthy 8-ingredient Instant Pot Vegetable Barley Soup in 30 minutes. This recipe for Instant Pot Vegetable Barley Soup—which is completely vegan—calls upon the flavors of mirepoix—the classic French trifecta of onions, carrots, and celery. In addition, the soup has mushrooms, barley, and seasonings that give it …
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Simple blended soups are pure comfort, yet they are as elegant and pretty as can be. This nutrient-packed soup is made of fresh onion, ginger, turmeric, carrots and fennel bulbs and tops, with a touch of coconut. It is robust in flavor, but light in calories, fat, and carbs. This gluten-free, vegan Fennel Carrot Soup …
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This classic recipe for Vegetable Tofu Pho—which is actually vegan and gluten-free—is inspired by the food traditions of Vietnam. Pho is a Vietnamese-style noodle soup. I included this recipe in my first book, The Plant-Powered Diet. Living in LA for 30 years, our family has always adored traditional foods from Asia, including Vietnam. Though I …
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This Classic Swedish Pea Soup recipe is inspired by my husband’s Swedish eating traditions. Pea soup is a time-honored, beloved dish in Sweden, where it is often eaten weekly as a nutritious, satisfying meal. The history of this dish stretches back to ancient Roman times as peasant food. And the Swedes have enjoyed pea soup …
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Here’s a history and sustainability lesson all wrapped up with your next meal. This vegan, gluten-free Three Sisters Chili is inspired by the story of the “Three Sisters”, a Native American agricultural tradition of planting beans, squash, and maize (corn) together. Three Sisters: Beans, Corn, and Squash This planting style was practiced by the indigenous …
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