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Vegan Almond Butter Blondies with Chocolate Chips (1 bowl, soy-free, nut-free option)

Crisp on the outside, fudgy on the inside almond butter blondies with decadent chocolate chips are the quick and easy one-bowl dessert you've been looking for!Just 8 main ingredients, 15 minutes to whip them up in just 1 bowl. Serve with a dollop of your favorite vegan ice cream. This recipe was first published on feb 20, 2015. It has been updated with new pictures, write up and video.

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These amazing, fudgy vegan almond butter blondies only take 15 minutes to whip up in one bowl. After mixing, you just pour them into a baking pan and bake to perfection.

This blondies recipe is lightly sweetened, fudgy, and buttery, with flavors of vanilla and cinnamon. Use other flours or gluten-free flour blend of choice. If you are using a whole grain flour to replace the white flour in this recipe, add 1 to 2 tablespoons less than the mentioned quantity, and add more only if the mixture is too wet.

Not only are almond butter blondies delicious and easy to make, the batter is free from added refined oil! If you want to make them completely oil-free, use cacao nibs in place of the chocolate chips.

They're also refined sugar-free, since we sweeten these blondies with coconut sugar, which gives them such a nice flavor.

Why You'll Love Almond Butter Blondies

• crisp, butter, and fudgy with flavors of cinnamon and vanilla
• lots of decadent chocolate chips
• one-bowl batter takes only 15 minutes to mix
• easy to make soy-free and even nut-free

More One-Bowl Desserts

• Vegan Orange Cake
• Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Gluten-Free PB&J Cookies
• Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

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Chorizo Tofu Burrito Bowl with Smoky Red Lentil Black Beans (gluten-free and soy-free with nut-free option)

This chorizo tofu and spicy lentil black bean bowl is packed with flavor from chorizo-style tofu and this incredible mixture of stewed black beans and red lentils. Serve over rice with your favorite burrito fillings, like cilantro, salsa, and vegan cheese or sour cream.

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Don't you love a burrito bowl? You get amazing textures and flavors of a burrito without having to take the time rolling it up. This one has 1. easy and delicious smoky black beans that are cooked with red lentils to add more texture. 2. These super flavorful chorizo marinade for the tofu! 3. Your fave toppings like chopped onion, jalapeño, vegan cheese or sour cream and hot sauce! Assemble as a bowl or wrap in a burrito!

This is a super comforting bowl, and the spiced bean and lentil mixture is almost stew- or chili-like that cooks up much faster than most chilis or stews. It's just so hearty and flavorful topped with this delicious, umami-filled, spiced, crisped up tofu. Finish it off with chopped onion or salsa or pickled jalapeño, and any other fillings you'd add to a burrito, and spoon it over rice.

You can serve the tofu burrito bowl without rice and with tortilla chips or sourdough for dipping! Or like a chili with tofu as the topping along with crushed tortilla chips. If you like this tofu burrito bowl, also make sure to check out my delicious black bean burrito bowl!

Why You'll Love Tofu Burrito Bowls

• toothsome chorizo tofu with flavorful stewed black beans and lentils
• spicy tofu chorizo bakes in the oven while you make the beans on the stovetop
• so versatile! Serve over rice or on its own with chips or flatbread to dip.
• make it your own by choosing your favorite burrito toppings
• nut-free with easy gluten-free and soy-free options

More Mexican-Inspired Recipes

• Jackfruit Tacos
• Crispy Tofu Burritos
• Crispy Quinoa Taco Meat
• Tex Mex Rice Casserole
• Cauliflower Bean Enchiladas

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8 Crave-Worthy Vegan Sheet Pan Dinners (gf, sf, nf options)

Need an easy meal? These amazing vegan sheet pan dinners to the rescue! No standing over the stove. Just toss everything onto a single pan in the oven.

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These sheet pan dinners include many options! Some have tofu ans the protein and other meals that center veggies, chickpeas, and other beans. What they all have in common is tons of FLAVOR. There are options here for family meals with kid-friendly flavors and some more unique flavor profiles that you just have to try!

And if you're on a special diet, I've got you. There are high protein, gluten-free, soy-free, and nut-free options included in this collection.

Need even more easy vegan dinners? Check out my Instant Pot recipes and my section of one pot meals.

And wrap up these sheet pan meals with my Sheet pan desserts like Tiramisu sheet cake or Peanut butter cake.

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Pahadi Curry (1 Pan North Indian Mountain Tofu Cardamom Pepper Curry)

Pahadi curry — crispy tofu in a flavorful cardamom pepper onion curry sauce — is an amazing, one-pan meal! It's based on an North Indian mountain cuisine curry that's usually made with meat. But tofu or other vegan meat substitutes are just as delicious in this deeply-seasoned sauce. 1 Pan 40 minutes, gluten-free recipe. Options for Soyfree Nutfree

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This is a hearty mutton (meat) recipe that I've adapted from Pahadi cuisine and converted to a vegan curry. Pahadi means mountains, and the mountainous regions in India have their own cuisine. There are many states in the region and this mountain cuisine varies based on the state and city cuisines.

Many of the recipes from the cuisine use lots of whole spices in the sauce. Like all of my other vegan Indian recipes, even you don't have all of the whole spices, you can still make the recipe. It will still have enough flavor overall, but you definitely should try it with the listed spices at least once.

I often also use these spices, like the Kashmiri chili powder and black cardamom, in other recipes, so if you get a bag, you're going to keep using them.

Get them from the Indian store, because you can get a smaller quantity for much cheaper than online. You can also order from Indian stores online, because they often deliver, as well.

You can bake or pan-fry the tofu for this recipe. I'm pan frying in the video, but the recipe includes baking instructions, as well. You can also use other proteins like pumpkin seed tofu, seitan, tempeh, soycurls or chickpeas/beans! Come along with me on this journey to try out the various regional Indian cuisines, made easier!

Why You'll Love Pahadi Tofu Curry

• rich, flavorful, tomato-yogurt curry sauce with lots of whole and ground spices
• tender, toothsome tofu pieces
• one-pan meal
• Indian regional cuisine recipe
• only 40 minutes to make it

More Indian Curry Recipes

• South Indian Eggplant Curry Casserole
• Malai Tofu Curry
• Aloo Matar – Indian Peas & Potato Curry
• Vegan Malabar Curry with Veggies & Beans

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Zucchini Rolls with Herbed Sun dried tomato ricotta (gluten-free with soy-free and nut-free options)

These Zucchini rolls are like lasagna roll ups, filled with delicious herbed sun-dried tomato tofu ricotta , all nestled in a pan with bubbly tomato ragu. They looks so pretty! And No watery mess!

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You Must Make These Zucchini Lasagna Rolls! No need to sweat or squeeze the zucchini needed, just spread the cheese mixture, roll and nestle in the sauce and bake! Great texture, just perfect comfort food! Unlike zucchini lasagna bake that needs a lot of steps, and can still give you limpy or watery result, these rolls bake up perfectly, are versatile and also easy to serve!

This is a really beautiful dish which you can serve at parties or for a fancy dinner. It's also relatively easy to make. The only time consuming part is rolling up the zucchini slices. But unlike pasta, there's no pre-cooking to do. Just use a peeler to slice your zucchini into long, skinny pieces.

You can use pre-cooked lasagna sheets in this as well, if you don't want to use zucchini.

The vegan ricotta-style filling is also easy to make. It has amazing flavor with the herbs and sun dried tomato. Just add everything to a bowl, and mix and mash to make the filling. It comes together super quickly!

Spread that creamy filling into the zucchini, and roll it up. It doesn't even have to be perfectly spread out. Roll the zucchini up, and place into a baking dish with some pasta sauce, then top it with vegan cheese and bake. I add some veggie grounds(vegan ground meat substitute) to the pasta sauce and it all bakes at the same time to make this meaty ragu. Use lentils or just omit for variation.

These zucchini lasagna rolls come out so pretty, and they're fun to serve and eat.

Why You'll Love Zucchini Rolls

• beautiful appetizer or entree for a party or fancy dinner
• tender zucchini around a cheesy vegan ricotta-style filling with beefy tomato sauce and creamy vegan cheese on top
• fun to make and to eat!
• naturally gluten-free with nut-free and soy-free options

More Zucchini Recipes

• Carrot Zucchini Chickpea Fritters
• Vegan Zucchini Bread
• Zucchini Lasagna
• Zucchini Koshimbir Salad

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Thecha Dal – Red Lentil Dal with Blistered Chilies and Garlic(soy-free, gluten-free)

Thecha dal, an Indian red lentil dal that you know and love with a spicy, nutty, umami-packed addition! Blistered chilies garlic are pounded with peanuts to make a chili chutney, and swirled to the lentil soup to make a flavorful dal!

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Thecha is a green chili condiment often served alongside many Indian dishes. This green chili chutney from the Indian state of Maharashtra is the preferred side with flatbreads like Bhakri( millet or sorghum flatbread). It is a spicy, nutty mix of green chilies, garlic, and peanuts, lightly blistered and then ground up with a mortar and pestle into a coarse mixture.

We make the Thecha chutney from scratch. It is a delicious spicy garlic chili chutney! You can also serve it as a side, like a chutney, or add to sandwiches or to your Indian spread.

In this Lentil dal, Thecha, the roasted green chili, garlic, peanut condiment gets swirled into this dal for a complex flavor and comforting meal!

Use whichever lentils of choice and make double protein of Thecha to use later in sandwiches or on garlic bread!

Why You'll Love Thecha Dal

• cozy Indian dal with flavorful garlic-chili-peanut topping
• easy, 30 minute meal
• naturally soy-free and gluten-free

More Vegan Dal Recipes

• Masoor Dal Tadka
• Dhaba-Style Butter Dal
• Punjabi Dal Fry
• Turmeric Spinach Golden Lentil Dal
• Mom's Moong Dal

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