This is an intensely flavorful vegan alternative to chicken soup. The combination of miso, nutritional yeast and ginger makes a fragrant broth and the chickpeas add texture as both a crunchy garnish and creamy soup component. If you watching your sodium intake, be careful of the type of noodles you buy. The original recipe called…
Category: Legumes (beans and lentils)
Vegetarian Tortilla Soup
In celebration of Cinco De Mayo, this vegetarian tortilla soup is packed with smokey flavor, spice, and crunch! Since you’re using lots of pantry ingredients, it’s convenient and quick to assemble. You can regulate the heat level with the amount of jalapeno pepper you add. I’m only using half but if you like it hot,…
Pizza Beans
Looking for ways to boost the nutrients in your diet, add more beans! In fact, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend eating at least 3 cups of legumes per week. I get that not everyone is as excited about beans as I am so I thought you could use a little coaxing. These pizza beans…
Chickpea and Rosemary Frittata
5-ingredient or less recipes can be a game changer in the kitchen, especially around the holidays. Eggs are wonderful as a fast weeknight dinner or holiday brunch and a frittata couldn’t be easier. Here we are combining eggs with chickpeas, fresh rosemary and parmesan cheese. Don’t be fooled. This small list of ingredients packs big…
Beans and Greens on Toast
This British inspired dish makes for a very easy breakfast, lunch or dinner. It’s a meal that is well balanced, extremely satisfying, simple to prepare, and delicious to eat!
Marcella Hazan’s White Bean Soup with Garlic and Parsley
Silky beans in a rich olive oil broth ladled over a piece of toasted whole grain bread, yes please! Marcella Hazan was known for embracing simplicity and balance. These were the hallmarks of her cooking. You might be tempted to add other ingredients, but don’t! Consider this famous quote of hers, “What you leave out…
Tuscan Shrimp and Beans
Cook’s Illustrated featured this recipe back in March/April 2017. Whenever I see “Tuscan” in the title of a recipe, I’m sold. You will find a bounty of beans in many Tuscan dishes (which is why I like them) and adding shrimp to the beans seemed like a winning combination. This deeply flavored dish is a…
One Pot Pantry Pasta with Chickpeas
When you can cook a meal in one pot, count me in! I found this recipe from Bon Appetit (BA) and loved the use of pantry staples. Chickpeas stand in as plant-based protein, canned tomatoes add sauciness and of course, pasta is the ultimate comfort food. The original recipe from Bon Appetit does not have a…
I Can’t Believe There’s No Cheese” Cheese Sauce
A cheese sauce you can use to make creamy mac and cheese but there’s no cheese! Amazingly, without incorporating any cheese into this sauce, you can create the same savory flavor of regular cheese. The ‘cheese’ flavor comes from a perfect blend of ingredients that includes cooked potatoes, onion, carrot, pre-soaked cashews (the only step…
Walnut Quinoa Burger with a Flavor Explosion
I love to try new veggie burger recipes and I found this one in an older EatingWell magazine. I think this might be my favorite one. Admittedly, it does require some extra steps but I think it’s worth it. The umami spread is truly a flavor explosion. By using 5 different umami flavors like dried…
The Basics of Cooking Beans
I’m pushing beans again because I’m trying really hard to get you to eat them several times a week. Although I’m not denying that canned beans are fast, easy, and nutrient-dense, cooking dried beans is definitely worth the little bit of extra effort. The texture and flavor are so different from canned beans, plus you…
Lentil, Sausage and Spinach Stew
Even though this heartwarming stew contains meat, it builds its protein heft from lentils. The sausage plays a background role, just enough to add a spicy richness without overwhelming the healthfulness of the dish. Cooking healthy is not an all or nothing proposition. Sometimes just the right amount of a heavier, richer ingredient can elevate…
Judy Matusky, RDN, LDN 