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Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, shares some tortilla meal concepts:

• Tortilla Breakfast Pizza: Bake, toast, or steam a tortilla. High with vegan cream cheese and both preserves or chopped contemporary ripe fruit.
• Tortilla Soup: This recipe is historically made with hen inventory. Use a vegetable broth as an alternative and simmer with chopped onions, carrots, celery, and tomatoes. Simply earlier than serving, stir in some baked tortilla chips to allow them to soften and take in a number of the taste. Then, garnish with some chips as effectively so that you get two textures.
• Crunchy and Delicate Baskets: Bake or buy a tough tortilla bowl. Unfold a gentle tortilla (that can match contained in the exhausting bowl) with refried or black beans. Place the gentle tortilla, bean aspect down, into the exhausting bowl. You’ve now received a ‘leakproof ‘ bowl. Unfold the gentle tortilla’s prime aspect with beans, after which fill your basket with shredded romaine, spinach or combined greens, lower corn, and different components.
• Wraps: Quite than creating a traditional sandwich made with bread, use a gentle tortilla to make a wrap. High a big (no less than 8 inches) tortilla with chopped salad, cooked beans, shredded vegan deli meat, minced smoked tofu or seitan, and a smidge of salad dressing or vegan mayonnaise. Roll tightly, and wrap in plastic wrap, aluminum foil, or parchment paper. Now, you’re able to go!
• Pinwheels: (Pictured on the duvet) Use the ‘wrap’ method described above, however solely use ‘clean’ components, similar to nut butters, vegan cream cheese, puréed beans or thick hummus, and minced veggies, similar to olives, pimentos, and skinny sprouts (similar to alfalfa). Unfold evenly onto the tortilla, and wrap tightly. Slice at 2-inch intervals or into bite-sized items to create engaging pinwheels.
• Quick Micro-Mini Wraps: For grab-and-go lunches, place a gentle tortilla on a plate and unfold a skinny layer of hummus or vegan cream cheese on prime. Add a slice of vegan deli meat and/or a slice of vegan cheese and a squirt of mustard. Microwave for 15 seconds to make the tortilla simpler to roll. Roll tightly, slice in half, and wrap tightly in foil or parchment paper. This fashion works effectively for nut butters, vegan cream cheese and jelly, mashed beans, and even very thinly sliced vegan scorching canines, cheese, and mustard.
• Quesadillas: Shred vegan cheese and sprinkle evenly throughout a tortilla. High the cheese with refried beans or mashed black beans. (For those who just like the comfort of ready beans, there are a number of mainstream manufacturers, similar to Rosarita, which can be vegan and nonfat.) Then, prime the beans with salsa, chopped onions, chopped chilies, and/or minced olives. Cowl with a second tortilla and steam within the microwave or bake within the oven till bubbly.
• Layered Dinner: It is a wonderful means to make use of up leftovers! Spray a baking dish with vegetable oil. Put down a layer of baked tortilla chips, complete gentle tortillas, or gentle tortillas lower into strips. Choose the components to your layers, which might embody mashed avocado; mashed, cooked beans or garbanzos; sliced, cooked potatoes; cooked veggies; chopped smoked or agency tofu; leftover chili; shredded vegan cheese; vegan bitter cream; leftover mashed potatoes, and so forth. Alternate layers of various components with tortillas till the baking dish is full. Bake till scorching and serve! An incredible tip is to assemble your layers early within the morning after which refrigerate till able to bake within the oven later within the day.
• Tortilla Dessert Pizza: Bake, toast, or steam a gentle tortilla. High with vegan cream cheese or nut butter, vegan chocolate or carob chips, and fruit preserves.
• Candy Tortilla Bowl: Unfold nut butter or vegan cream cheese onto a gentle tortilla and place it right into a bowl. Fill the tortilla with cooked and cooled grains, chopped contemporary or frozen fruit, dried fruit, chilly cereal or cinnamon tortilla chips, and/or vegan yogurt or frozen vegan desserts, similar to Tofutti or Rice Dream.

Learn extra right here: https://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2011issue2/2011_issue2_vegan_cooking_tips.php

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