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Healthy Vegan - Green and Black Chilli or Verdi Chilli

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Food from the Indian Sub-Continent is what I grew up with and I love its diversity, but when I left home for University all those years ago, I discovered a whole world of global vegetarian cuisine from Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Moroccan, Malaysian, Thai, Greek, Turkish, Irish, Scottish and Mexican.  Vegan Mofo prompt today is to share your favourite cuisine.  Its hard to choose one cuisine that i favour over others, but I can hands down say what dish I really really like - Vegetarian Chilli. Although the Mexican cuisine I had in Scotland and Wales has never ever authentic, more Tex - Mex style, I developed a taste for Mexican flavours and vegetarian Chilli in its many incarnations became my favourite go to meal.  Perhaps the first vegetarian Chilli I ever had was made with soya mince.   Later when I started making my own vegan Chilli from scratch, it was always made borlotti, pinto or kidney beans, then I discovered black turtle beans and this dish became my favo...

Healthy Vegan - December Eat Your Greens & Wonderful Greens - The Vegetable Palette Final Round Up

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Welcome to Decembers round up of Eat Your Greens and   The Vegetable Palette :  natures colours - natures goodness' '.  Please note that this will be the last   Vegetable Palette .   I would like to Thank those of you who have participated and support the blog challenge over the past two years.  Please don't be sad though, you can still participate as  The Eat Your Greens challenge continues .  The theme for December was  Wonderful Greens . I begin with Falafel Burger with Guacamole.  Avocado - natures natural green butter.  Next we have  The Veg Hog  who shares with us her  Twice Cooked Broccoli Pasta .  The broccoli is first boiled and then pan fried for crispness enhanced further with chilli and garlic .  The VegHog uses Spelt tagliatelle here, but I guess you can use any pasta in your kitchen cupboards.   For The Vegetable Palette, the Falafel Burger with Guacamole.  Avo...