Quick Healthy Recipes For You

Consider the Lilies ...

Beautiful, symbolic, photogenic but could they be food ?

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Consider the Lilies ...

The beautiful Lotus is a multi purpose and sustainable  food source that is very versatile, from lily seeds to Lotus root there are more ways to serve it up than you can poke a Lily stem at.

Monk Style Mixed Veggies – Vegan

This recipe is a wee bit longer than usual but well worth it so give it a go

• 50gr/2 0z dried tofu sticks
• 115gr/4 oz fresh lotus root – or 50 gr/2 oz   dried lotus root
• 10gr/1/4 oz  dried wood ears
• 8 Dried Chinese mushrooms
• 15 ml or 1Tablespoon veg oil
• 75 gr/ 3 oz  canned straw mushrooms ( just use what mushrooms you can find-  button mushrooms  are OK – don’t stress which ones )
• 115 gr/ 3 oz  baby corm
• 30 mls 2 TBS light soy sauce  ( I use Tamari)
• 15 ml/1 TBS dry sherry
• 10 ml/2 tsp  caster sugar
• 150 ml   or 2/3 cup vegetable stock
• 75 gr snow peas (mangetouts, trimmed and halved)
• 5 ml/ 1 tsp cornflour
• 15 ml/1 TBS water

To Prepare and Make

• Soak Tofu sticks, dried lotus root, for one hour ( no need if fresh)
• Soak Wood ears & other dried mushroom in separate bowl as they only take 15 mins
• Drain both well
• Heat oil, stir fry wood ears, chines mushrooms and Lotus for about 30 seconds – don’t overcook
• Add tofu, straw mushrooms ( or button mushrooms) baby corn, soy sauce, sherry, castor sugar and stock
• Bring to the boil, cover, lower heat and simmer about 20 mins
• Stir through the snow peas, cook uncovered 2 mins
• Mix cornflour to a paste with water and add
• Cook until thickens and serve

I quite like to mix and change this around to suit what is available as we prefer what is in season and what is on hand and you can experiment with other ingredients.  This is also great with lily buds either instead of Lotus root in as well.

Love Good Food  ?  More Vegan Recipes

If you have never tried Lotus root I invite you to give it a try. Go on, extend your taste buds, but I am assuming you haven’t already tried it aren’t I  ?

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Link to More Lotus Seed Ideas here