Roasted Jalapenos and Vegetables Tacos with Roasted serrano pico - Vegan

When you have fresh Jalapenos , I just love to eat roasted or air fried with any Mexican meal I make but this time I wanted to make it as a star of the dish not just side of the dish, So I have added vegetables and make tacos and with roasted serrano was there too so Made fresh pico de gallo with it and enjoy it. For the protein I have added Vegan Red onion and Rosemary sausages , you can add your choice of protein and make it a meal too

Ingredients : 

3 big fresh jalapenos

2 sausages

1 carrot, cut in long matchstick size

few florets of broccoli

1 big white onion cut in long matchstick

4 cloves of garlic chopped

1 tbsp. taco seasoning

1 tbsp. garlic powder

1 tbsp. paprika powder

1/2 tbsp. cayan powder

salt to taste

1/2 tbsp. oregano

3-5 flour tortilla ( I prefer flour over corn)

2 tbsp. oil

For pico-

1 Roasted serrano chili

1/2 tomato chopped finely

1/2 white onion chopped

1/4 jalapeno chopped

Fresh chopped coriander leaves

salt and pepper and lime juice as per taste

Method :

For pico de gallo, chopped everything fine and mix it together in bowl , add salt , pepper and lime juice and let it sit on side till you make tacos.

For tacos

Roast Jalapenos first, you can do it on gas, or oven. I have used my air fryer and put it on air roast.

Once done cut everything in same size.

In a pan, add oil and add garlic in it. sauté for few seconds till you get nice aroma, then add your vegetables and sausages and cook on high flame for 5 minutes. 

Add your spices and salt and let it cook for 3 more minutes. You don't need soggy vegetables so don't over cook it.  

Warm up the flour tortillas and fill up the jalapenos stuffing in it , spread some pico on top, add slice of avocado and enjoy.

You can add your choice of cheese too but I like it this way so I didn't add any. 

Easiest Seitan (vegan Chicken) with Noodles

I just love to try new things and also like to eat soy based products but its not always cheap , sometimes its expensive and turns out didn't like the flavor or texture or something else. But this is the easiest and quick way to make seitan and from what I made , I freeze the other half so economically also its better. Some of the recipes with washed dough is taking longer and I didn't have that time to wait so for me this is perfect.

You can just make seitan, steamed it and pan fry it and add the sauce and enjoy it with rice or noodles but I wanted to make just one dish so I have added noodles with some vegetables and make a dish out of it. 

You have to steamed the seitan , not boiled so that is the only thing is must. you can store it extra seitan after its steamed and cooled down. 

I will play with that saved one later on. 

so lets  start making this one.

Ingredients :

For Seitan :

3/4 cup (12 tbsp.) vital wheat gluten

2/3 cup (10 tbsp. ) water

1/4 cup AP flour

1 tsp. vegetarian bullion powder

1/2 tbsp. onion powder, garlic powder each

Salt as per taste

1/2 tbsp. red pepper flakes

For the sauce : 

3 tbsp. Sambal oleak (or as per your spice level, you can use Thai sweet chili sauce too)

3 tbsp. Oyster sauce

2 tbsp. Dark soy sauce

2 tbsp. water

1 tsp. Vinegar

1 tbsp. spicy or regular sesame oil

2 tbsp. oil

For the noodles 

1 package of Fresh noodles - cook and keep it on side as per instructions

1 onion cut in long slices

1 yellow pepper cut in long slices

4-5 mushrooms cut in length wise

1 bok choy cut in pieces

1 medium carrot cut in pieces

4 garlic cloves cut it finely

1 green onion chopped

Method : 

Put the steamer on with water in it to boil.

on a steamer dish , where you are going to put the seitan to steam , brush it with oil.

In a bowl, add vital wheat gluten, AP flour, spices and salt and mix it , add water and mix it and make a ball of the dough, It will be quick.

Take the dough and make a bite size pieces and put it on greased plate. Make sure pieces are small because after steaming it will be big and you don't want too big pieces. 

Don't over crowd the plate and over lap it too. Cover it and steamed it for 10 minutes. 

In meanwhile, mix all ingredients except oil in a small bowl and keep it aside.

Once the seitan is ready, heat a pan with oil in it. 

Add those steamed pieces inside in single layer in pan with the help of tongs or forks. Cook from all sides till its nice brown and crispy.

Take it out from the pan.

If you need more oil just add 1 tbsp. oil. 

Add garlic and sauté for few seconds. Then add all the vegetables and cook for 4-5 minutes. 

Add seitan and noodles and mix it along with vegetables. 

Add the sauce and mix it nicely so it coat with vegetables and noodles. 

Taste it and  adjust the seasoning. 

Sprinkle green onions on top 

Enjoy it .

You can skip the noodles and add the sauce once seitan is browned from all the sides and when sauce is heated thru  , you can serve it with white rice and enjoy it too.