Vegan Baked Empanadas - Two ways - Cheeseburger Filling and Black beans and Corn

Every country has their versions of dumplings, fried or baked and mostly all of its delicious. Today I have tried South American's favorite dumpling called Empanadas, all the countries there has their version of Empanadas but here I have made two different versions and baked it and served it with spicy and garlicky chimichurri sauce. Again you can use your favorite protein and make it , I have used gardein ground be'f. 

Ingredients for Cheeseburger :

1 cup gardein ground be'f you can use soy granules also

1/2 cup thinly chopped onion

Ketchup , mayo, mustard as per taste

3-4 pickle chips finely chopped

salt and black pepper as per taste

Cheese as needed

1 tbsp. oil

Method : 

Heat a oil in pan, add onion and cook till its soft, add beef , mayo , mustard, pickle chips, ketchup , salt and pepper and mix it . Cook till its all dry and mix it nicely. 

Take it out and keep it aside.

Ingredients for Mexican Black beans and Corn:

1/2 cup canned black beans, drained

1/4 cup thawed yellow corn

1/2 carrot grated

1/2 chopped jalapenos

2 garlic cloves finely chopped

Paprika powder , garlic powder, salt, roasted cumin powder and oregano as per taste

1 tbsp. oil

Method : 

In a same pan, you made cheeseburger filling, wipe it with paper towel. 

Add oil in it and when its hot, add garlic in it.

When its cook for 30 seconds or so add jalapenos and cook for 30 seconds.

Then add beans , corn, carrot and mix it while adding spices in it. 

Cook till everything combines and dry. 

Keep it aside and let it cool little bit before you stuffed it in discs.

For Empanadas 

1 pack of Goya Empanada baking discs

2 cups of Shredded cheese

Water to seal the disc

Take one disc out, wet your finger in water and put the water on sides of disc.

Put two tbsp. of stuffing in the middle of the disc and same amount of cheese on top of it. You can do more cheese and less stuffing too. Its totally up to you. 

Fill it both stuffing in all the discs and bake it in air fryer for 10 minutes at 395 F .

Temperature is varied with all machines so adjust as per your machine requirement. 

When its done on one side, flip it on other side so its cooked from both side. 

Serve hot with spicy , garlicky  HCF: Chimichurri Sauce on side. 

Dragon Soy curls - indo Chinese

Who don't like Indo Chinese foo that spicy, starchy, full of flavor , We all just love it either its muchrian or different chili, So here you go with one more classic Indo Chinese dish, called Dragon Chicken, but made it with soy curls and 100% vegan. You can marinate soy curls and then cook it on stove top or put it in air fryer so it gets crispy and then add it on sauce. Generally it has some crunch with cashews but because of nut allergy I don't add it. You can certainly add it. 

Ingredients : 

Marinade :

2 tsp. Tamari sauce or soy sauce

1 tsp freshly ground black pepper

1 tbsp. Red chili powder, you can use your favorite and adjust the quantity as per your spice level

2 tbsp. ginger garlic finely chopped

1 tsp. oil

1 tbsp. corn starch

For the Sauce

1/2 cup dry soy curls

1 tbsp. oil

5 cloves of finely chopped garlic

1 inch ginger finely chopped

5-6 dry red chilies

1/4 cup green onions cut

1 cup blanched broccoli

1 small green capsicum

4 tbsp. tamari sauce

4 tbsp. ketchup

1 tbsp. sambal oelek

1 tsp. sugar

salt if needed

6 tbsp. water

1 tbsp. cornstarch

green onion or white sesame seeds for garnish

Method :

Soak soy curls in hot water for 5 minutes. Then drain and take out excess water. 

Mix the ingredients of marinade except corn starch and put the soy curls in it and sprinkle corn starch on it. 

If you want heat up a pan and cook the soy curls till all the marinade is dry up and curls become crispy or baked it in air fryer for 20 minutes or as you like.  keep it aside. 

In a bowl, mix tamari, ketchup, sambal oelek, sugar and mix it. keep it aside. 

In a pan add oil and add ginger garlic and dried red chilies and cook till the  ginger garlic raw smells goes away.

then add broccoli and green capsicums and white part of green onions and cook it till capsicum cooks slightly. 

No w add ketchup mixture and mix well.

Mix cornstarch with water and add it also. 

when everything is nice and bubbly, add crispy soy curls and mix it with sauce and shut off the gas 

Serve hot with just plain white rice and sprinkle green onions or sesame seeds on top and enjoy.

Instead of soy curls you can use chicken, jackfruit  also. 

Inspired from Dragon Chicken Soycurls - Vegan Richa

Chinese vegetable Melody in Stir fry sauce

I like to use the vegetables which kids generally don't eat it in normal dishes. So When I make stir-fries, I add all those and make some yummy sauce to go with it and feed it, Kids will have it without any complaints. Generally I serve one vegetable dish with sauce, one noodle dish so with I had Pad See Eww and spring rolls and puff tofu and by the end of the diner , all was gone. Here I have used green beans , mushrooms, carrot, broccoli, onion and sweet colorful peppers.  You can take whatever you have in on hand. You can tofu also in it or your favorite protein. 

Ingredients : 

2 cups of green beans blanched and cut in half

1/2 cup of white button mushrooms chopped in slices

1 cup blanched broccoli

2-3 sweet colorful peppers chopped in cubes

1 white onion chopped in cubes

ginger, garlic and green chilies finely chopped 2 tbsp. 

1 tbsp. oil

Sauce mix : 

2 tbsp. soy sauce or as needed to adjust salt content

1 tbsp. black bean garlic sauce

3 tbsp. vegetarian oyster mushroom sauce

1 tbsp. coconut sugar or any sweetener

1 tbsp. rice  vinegar

4 tbsp. water

1 tbsp., or as per your taste sriracha

1 1/2 tbsp. cornstarch

1 tbsp. hot sesame oil or regular sesame oil

Method : 

Bo blanch the vegetables, heat up the pan with water in it and once its boiled, add first beans and keep it in water for a minute and take it out and put it in ice cold water. Do same for broccoli. and keep it aside. 

Mix all the ingredients for the sauce mix in a bowl and set aside. Adjust the taste as per your liking, you can use this noodles too. 

Heat a oil in wok or non stick pan. Add ginger , garlic and green chilies, cook till you get nice aroma, then add carrot, peppers and mix it, add onions and mushrooms and cook for minute too. 

DO NOT OVERCOOK the vegetables. 

Then add blanched green beans and broccoli and mix it. 

By spoon mix the sauce again before pouring it in to the wok so starch don't stuck at the bottom.

Pour the sauce on the vegetables and mix it nicely so it coats  the vegetables. 

If sauce is too thick add few tbsp. of water and adjust it , Check the seasoning and adjust it if needed too. 

Enjoy it with plain white rice. 

If you like garnished it with white sesame seeds and serve hot. 

Soy Curls Chick'n Masala

So I got this bag of soy curls which after hydrating turns soft and you can put it in any seasoning and it will take that flavor. So wanted to make chicken masala, everyone makes butter chicken from that so nothing new in it but I just wanted my old time favorite simple chicken masala to pair it with  rice. It came out so good that now it become one of my new favorite. I have used ready made fried onions but if you don't have it you can use fresh onions and cook till it becomes brown.

Ingredients : 

1/2 cup  not soaked soy curls which will yield 1 cup of it

1/2 cup ready made fried onions

Whole spices - Bay leaf, black pepper corns, cinnamon sticks

1 tbsp. Tomato paste if you don't have it then 1/2 cup tomato puree

1 tbsp. Kashmiri chili powder

1/2 tbsp. Spicy chili powder - if you like spicy then

1 tbsp. roasted cumin powder

1/2 tbsp. turmeric powder

Salt as per taste

Fresh chopped coriander leaves and ginger julienne for garnish 

2 tbsp. Oil

Method :

Soak soy curls in water for 5 to 10 minutes then take it out and remove the water out from it. keep it separate.

In a pan, add oil , when it become hot, add whole spices and cook it for a minute.

Then add fried onions  and mix it with whole spices.

Add tomato paste / Puree and mix it , add 1/4 cup water to cook the tomato.

Add red chili, turmeric powder, cumin powder and mix it and let it cook for on low flame for 4 minutes.

then add soy curls and mix it and adjust the gravy consistency and add salt and then cook it on low flame for 5 minutes. 

When you get your desired consistency, switch off and serve hot with rice , paratha  , naan.

Garnish it with fresh chopped coriander leaves and ginger julienne.