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Happy Vegan Christmas: Plant-based recipes for festive Scandinavian feasts
Happy Vegan Christmas: Plant-based recipes for festive Scandinavian feasts
Happy Vegan Christmas: Plant-based recipes for festive Scandinavian feasts
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Happy Vegan Christmas: Plant-based recipes for festive Scandinavian feasts

By Karoline Jönsson

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Roasted nuts and vegetables, fragrant citrus and cloves, jewelled lingonberries and cardamom buns fresh from the oven – these are the delights that make a Scandinavian vegan Christmas.

In Happy Vegan Christmas, Karoline Jönsson presents a merry smorgasbord of plant-based Christmas dishes guaranteed to enchant friends and family.

Instead of the usual bubble and squeak, here we find vegan classics to satisfy all guests, such as vegan Swedish meatballs, spiced cabbage pudding, pulled ‘pork’ with jackfruit, pickled courgette, potato and greens pie, sticky buffalo cauliflower, nutty ‘egg’ nog, gingerbread biscuits and chewy panforte. The book includes recipes for baked treats, delicious drinks to keep you warm during the winter nights, and plenty of dishes for a Christmas buffet – to keep you going until New Year! Also included are some crafty ideas to try out during the holiday, such as cultivating winter flowers indoors or making a candle centrepiece, a dried citrus festoon, a wreath and a wild birdfeeder.

Inspired by both classic Scandinavian Christmas cooking, as well as seasonal dishes from around the world, this is an indispensable treasure trove for the vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian foodie.

Chapters include: Winter food; Treats and Bakes; Drinks; The Christmas buffet; To the New Year

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins UK
Release dateDec 12, 2019
ISBN9781911663058
Happy Vegan Christmas: Plant-based recipes for festive Scandinavian feasts
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Karoline Jönsson

Karoline Jönsson made her breakthrough in 2012 when her vegetarian food blog The Green Pantry was named Sweden's best food blog. She published her first cook book in 2014 and today her blog has more than 20,000 visitors every month. In 2014 she hosted the first all-vegetarian cooking show on Swedish national television.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gronaskafferietThe Green Pantry blog:http://www.sjalvhushallningsprojektet.se

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    Happy Vegan Christmas - Karoline Jönsson

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    THROUGHOUT THE YEAR , I notice very clearly how my body has different needs when it comes to food. In spring, I crave fresh foods, salads, chlorophyll-packed leaves and shoots, and sprightly flavours such as coriander (cilantro), ginger and citrus. During the summer months I find it difficult to enjoy warm food, especially during the day, and prefer simple meals using fresh ingredients, and more fruit and sweet ingredients.

    In the autumn and winter, when the body to a certain extent follows nature into a state of hibernation and calm, all I want is comfort food; it should be rich, warm, nutritious and filling. The body is tired, cold and doesn’t get any extra energy from the weather and the fleeting daylight. At this time of year I crave soups, stews, rich spice blends and traditional comfort food. It’s perhaps no coincidence that the ingredients traditionally used during this time are the ones that are rich and filling, and come into their own when cooked in the right way.

    For those who want to continue to eat a lot of raw food during the winter months, you can with a little help from spices to achieve a warming, rich flavour. Chilli, cinnamon, ginger and cardamom are examples of spices that will warm you from the inside out. For instance, a raw, smooth vegetable soup has a warming effect if it’s flavoured with chilli. You can also achieve the rich umami flavours found in a lot of cooked food by using tamari, sun-dried tomatoes, dried mushrooms, tahini or nut butters.

    On the whole, I like to follow the seasons and eat things that are available right here and right now. That’s why a lot of the basic ingredients in the recipes in this book are mainly in season in the winter months. However, if there’s a time of year when I think buying imported fruits can be justified then this is it as we have very little homegrown fruit during the winter in Sweden. Buying mangoes or melons in the middle of summer or at harvest time, when we have loads of homegrown garden berries, plums, apples, cherries and pears, is in my opinion less climate smart than eating citrus fruits, persimmons or pomegranates in the leaner winter months.

    It’s a good idea to make the most of the freezer during the winter. The abundance of fruit and berries or summer vegetables that were in season a few months earlier can still be seasonal if frozen (or preserved) in time, whether they be homegrown courgettes (zucchini) or foraged blackberries, or even frozen shop-bought spinach from the supermarket.

    MY PANTRY

    FRESH FOODS

    In the larder I have apples, onions and winter squash of different kinds, colours and shapes. I store garlic at room temperature. In the vegetable patch you’ll still find kale and cavolo nero, beetroot (beets) and Jerusalem artichokes.

    PRESERVES, JAMS AND CORDIALS

    In my fridge you’ll find rows of jars full of strawberry compote, green tomato marmalade, spruce shoot syrup, pickled cucumber, lingonberry jam and pickled beetroots (beets).

    FROZEN FOODS

    The freezer is full of things that don’t keep for long when fresh, such as courgettes (zucchini), green beans, field mushrooms, birch sap, apple juice, blackberries, sea buckthorn, raspberries, aronia berries and other summer berries.

    DRIED FOODS

    I keep summer’s lovely herbs, leaves, berries, fruits and flowers dried in glass jars. Whole dried rosehips can be boiled then blended, strained and sweetened to be served as a homemade rosehip drink. You’ll also find dried apple and pear slices.

    FRESH SEASONAL INGREDIENTS

    red, yellow, white and Chioggia beetroot (beets), potato, carrot, parsnip, salsify, parsley root, celeriac (celery root), daikon, Jerusalem artichoke

    pumpkin, red kuri squash, butternut squash, spaghetti squash

    brown onion, red onion, shallot, garlic, leek, pearl onion, white onion

    swede (rutabaga), kale, cavolo nero, Brussels sprouts, white cabbage, red cabbage, Savoy cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi, Chinese leaf cabbage

    sprouts, shoots, cress, chicory (endive), sage, parsley

    oyster mushroom, truffles

    apple, sloe berries, juniper berries

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    STOCKING UP THE LARDER

    Vegan cooking may require a bit of a rethink of the kitchen for some. Even though it’s possible to make plant-based versions of old traditional favourites, there may be gaps to fill with new ingredients. If you remove meat, fish, dairy and eggs from your diet you will, of course, have to consider adding alternative ingredients. Here, I’ve listed some basic ingredients that I always have at home, and which help me to organize everyday meals, parties and even Christmas feasts fairly simply and easily.

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    LENTILS

    Puy lentils are small in size and have a beautiful mottled grey-green colour. They keep their texture when cooked and are therefore especially suited to robust salads. Black beluga lentils have the same properties. Red lentils, on the other hand, can become mushy and have a much shorter cooking time – around 10 minutes – which makes them fantastic in dishes where you don’t want them to keep their shape, such as in soups or lentil bolognese, for example. I use green lentils more rarely; they don’t become mushy as easily as the red ones, but neither do they keep their firm texture as well as Puy or beluga lentils, and they therefore have never been a favourite of mine.

    BEANS AND PEAS

    I’m a bean lover and see legumes as the most natural of my protein sources. I like to use a range of different beans, everything from dried to frozen and canned, and in various shapes, sizes and colours. All beans have slightly different characteristics and ways to use them, but can usually be swapped for other varieties in the legume family if you don’t want to fill your shelves with too many types.

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    Mung beans are perfect for sprouting, while large and small white beans are great for blending into different kinds of spreads or dips, for using in pasta sauces, as a topping for a bowl of smooth soup or for thickening soups and stews – just blend into a purée and stir in. More colourful varieties such as kidney beans and black beans are nice to use in stews and chillies. Chickpeas (garbanzos) I use for hummus, but they are also wonderful coated in a blend of spices and toasted, then served sprinkled over salads. Yellow peas, which are grown in Sweden, can often be used instead of chickpeas if you’re looking for a more typical Scandinavian dish.

    It’s great to have green peas and edamame (soya) beans in the freezer, and they only need boiling for a couple of minutes before they are ready to eat. The peas can be blended into soup or hummus in no time at all.

    QUINOA

    Quinoa is a great plant source of protein, just like legumes, with a lot of different uses.

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