looking for easy vegan Mexican recipes
I want to learn how to cook Mexican cuisine. I don’t know where to start. Authentic or not, IDC, as long as it’s tasty. Looking for recipes that don’t require a blender or “cheese.” I rarely ate dairy even in my pre-vegan days due to a health issue so I don’t feel the need to re-create it. If a recipe calls for it but would taste fine without, feel free to recommend it anyway. Suggestions?
Oh jeez oh jeez I want to tell you about the tamales I learned to make. I’ve been trying to remember to make tamales for so long and I finally remembered to make them and it was sooo worth it. I’m getting hungry thinking about it.
But I’m really tired, and somewhat burnt out after being berated for how I choose to label myself so I’m posting this to remember to share the recipe in a few minutes when I feel better.
Edit: OK so tamales are so good.
I started with this recipe: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/mexican-tamales/
Rather than lard, I just used vegetable oil. I was a bit worried it would be too thin, but it held together okay.
For the filling, I used 1 pack of yves ground round though any meat substitute would fit the bill, about 1 cup of cooked black beans, a cup or so of corn niblets, 1 tbsp cumin, 2 finely chopped chipotles, 1/2 a finely chopped onion, juice of 1 lime, about 1-2 tsp oregano, 1 tbsp annato paste, and salt to taste. Fried the whole thing together in a pan with olive oil until it was hard to resist eating it. For the lacto-friendly in the house I put a slice of cheese in the tamales, and for my own I added some finely chopped habanero peppers and sprinkled some chili powder inside the corn husk so the tamale came out red-tinted to indicate it was plant-based and spicier. It probably would have been good with a daiyu cheese sub or similar but honestly I didn’t miss it.
Everyone tried to steal my plant-based ones. Luckily I made enough. Was it a mistake to train my kids to eat spicy food?
Suggesting products of animal exploitation and suffering in a vegan community in response to a request that specifically stated that they didn’t want any cheese type ingredients is really not cool.
You know what? It was a mistake to attempt to engage here.
You don’t need cheese to make this recipe. That was in fact a point I emphasized in the story, because I don’t eat cheese and didn’t use it, and wanted the OP to know it wasn’t required, since the original recipe called for it. However, too many of you are so damn prickly you can’t even bear to see the word, and don’t look further than that.
It’s a shame because a bunch of you are pretty nice, but it just isn’t worth it.