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Recipes: Summertime Veggie Salads

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I feel more ready for this week than most weeks—maybe it’s because I am full of high post-Memorial Day spirits. Yesterday my friends and I went to a watering hole in Northern Maryland and spent the entire day on a rock in the sun. Vitamin D feels good.

Also good: Vegetarian versions of old summertime salad favorites. We were fully prepared with our food for the day—coolers packed with brew, vegan “egg” salad and almost-vegan “chicken” salad. The chicken salad was my favorite but I can’t find a recipe for it online (I think because it’s a secret). The special ingredients—blue cheese (non-vegan) and green grapes—were what made it so good! Both salads used vegan mayonnaise (so  they wouldn’t go bad in the sun). Here is a recipe from Post Punk Kitchen that resembles the vegan egg salad we shared. Lots of wonderful flavors after the jump:

Tofu “Egg” Salad

Equipment:

  • two medium bowls
  • whisk

Ingredients: 

  • 1 tetra pack extra firm silken tofu, like Mori-Nu
  • 1 or 2 celery ribs, minced
  • 1/3 cup mayonnaise, vegenaise, nayonaise, etc
  • 1 tsp lemon juice or cider vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric
  • 1/2 tsp dry mustard (3/4 tsp if you like spicy)
  • 1/4 tsp sea salt, or to taste
  • 1/4 tsp celery seed (optional)
  • 1/8 tsp cumin
  • black pepper, to taste
  • other fresh or dry herbs like dillweed, chives

Directions:

  1. Empty the tofu and minced celery into a bowl, set aside.
  2. Combine all the other ingredients in a bowl, and whisk until combined.
  3. Pour over the tofu, and mix with a fork until the tofu breaks down and it looks like egg salad.
  4. Eat.

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