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Is a vegan diet suitable for Easter? Not traditionally. Easter can also taste delicious without meat, as the following recipes show.
Kassel – Hearty dishes, sweet treats and all vegan? If you would like to eat vegan over the holidays or have visitors who don't want to eat animal products, you don't have to compromise on taste. The Easter Bunny can feel safe this year because there are many vegan alternatives that will probably compete with the original. In Kassel there have been some offers for vegan and vegetarian diets since “Veganuary”.
Does a plant-based Easter mean no yeast plaits, egg salad and vanilla pastries? Absolutely no way!
When you hear the word vegan, many people get the impression that they have to go without something delicious. A study even shows that if a product is labeled “vegan”, it is accessed significantly less. But now vegan really has nothing to do with going without, quite the opposite. You can also eat vegan at Easter.
According to the Simply V
recipe, the following ingredients are required
for the
“vegan yeast plait”
:
250 ml plant drink
50g sugar
0.5 cubes of yeast
500g flour
80 g oil, neutral in taste
1 pinch of salt
0.5 tsp bourbon vanilla
15 g almond flakes
2 tbsp jam
75 g plant-based cream cheese
The preparation is not rocket science either:
Preheat the oven to 200 °C top and bottom heat.
Heat the plant drink in a pot and mix the sugar and yeast in it. Let the mixture rest in the closed pot until the yeast bubbles and a foam forms.
Add flour, oil, salt and vanilla and knead the dough well for about 10 minutes.
Cover and let the dough rest in a warm place for 2 hours.
After the resting time, knead the dough again.
Divide the dough into 3 parts and form even strands. Lay the strands next to each other, bring them together at the top and braid them into a braid.
Place the braid on a baking tray lined with baking paper and brush with plant drink. Optionally sprinkle with pistachios or flaked almonds.
Bake the yeast plait for about 25-30 minutes until it is golden brown.
The Easter bunny probably doesn't end up on the plate - that would also be unfair to first receive a gift and then put it in the oven. Many people in Germany traditionally have yeast braids for Easter. They are also completely vegan. (Symbolic photo) © Imago/Photo-Collage
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Egg salad for the festival with “vegan Easter eggs” – Here’s how it works
If you want to prepare another Easter classic, you can try the
“vegan egg salad”
from
slowly veggie
. The following ingredients are needed for four people:
100 g small pasta (gobbetti, risoni | dry weight)
150 g chickpeas (can | drained weight)
1 medium onion
1 pinch of turmeric (for color)
1 tbsp mustard (medium hot)
70g vegan mayonnaise
1 - 2 tsp kala namak
pepper
20 g chives
The vegan egg salad is also quick and easy to prepare:
Cook the pasta in salted boiling water, then drain and rinse with cold water. Place the chickpeas in a sieve and rinse thoroughly.
Peel the onion and chop finely.
Roughly puree the chickpeas or mash them with a fork. Also roughly chop the cooked pasta and mix with the chickpeas and chopped onions.
Add turmeric, mustard, vegan mayonnaise, kala namak and pepper and mix well.
Roughly chop the chives and mix into the vegan egg salad. Before serving, season to taste with kala namak, salt and pepper.
The festive meal includes a dessert - this can also be vegan at Easter
According to the food blog
VEGGIES
, the following ingredients are needed
for the vegan
“vanilla apricot danish” :
1 small tin or 6 pieces of pickled apricot halves
250 ml vanilla soy milk + a little soy milk to brush the dough
20 g cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon ground vanilla (or 1 packet vanilla sugar)
2 tbsp fine cane sugar (or an alternative sweetener)
1 roll of vegan puff pastry
2 tbsp vegan apricot jam
2 tbsp pistachios, finely chopped or “crushed”
And this is how the preparation of the vegan treat works:
Drain the apricot halves and strain the juice through a sieve. Set aside six apricot halves.
Pour 50 ml of soy vanilla milk into a cup and completely dissolve 20 g of cornstarch while stirring constantly. Heat the remaining soy milk in a saucepan and mix with 2 tablespoons of cane sugar and ground vanilla.
As soon as the vanilla milk is hot, stir in the mixture with the dissolved cornstarch. Reduce the heat and allow the custard to thicken, stirring constantly, for about 2 minutes. Then remove from heat.
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees top and bottom heat.
Unwrap the puff pastry and cut it into 6 equal pieces. Place the dough pieces next to each other on a baking tray lined with baking paper and spread lightly with apricot jam.
Fold the corners of the dough pieces towards the middle and press lightly.
Then put 2 tablespoons of pudding in the middle of each piece of dough and press half an apricot on top with the curve facing up. Spread the edge of the pastry with a little vegetable drink or apricot jam and optionally sprinkle with granulated sugar.
Bake the apricot Danish pastries in a preheated oven at 220 degrees top and bottom heat for about 15 minutes until they are golden brown and well risen.
In the meantime, crush 2 tablespoons of pistachios in a mortar and sprinkle on the finished pastries. The best way to enjoy your vegan “Speigelei Danish pastries” is while they’re still warm out of the oven.
Vegan is unhealthy? Why vegan Easter is good for your health
Many people consider a vegan diet to be unhealthy. Andreas Hahn, Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Leibniz University Hannover, clears up the myth. “We even know high-performance athletes and marathon runners who eat a vegan diet and who have no loss of performance whatsoever. So in this respect there is no reason to eat meat,” said Hahn in an article on
NDR
.
But a vegan diet is automatically healthy, not if you don't pay attention to a balanced diet. A vegan restaurant in England is offering meat again to save its business.
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