Black Bean Loaf with Roasted Brussel Sprouts and Mixed Green Salad
This dish is rather simple. Remember no finished oils and any animal products were allowed. Now dishes without any fats taste very bland. A way around that is to use nut-butters, such as tahini (sesame seeds), almond, peanut butter, etc. As long as you don’t have any allergies you will have no problems. An alternative to nut-butter is avocado which is rich in oils.
The Brussel Sprouts were washed, peeled and oven roasted at 400 F. Seasoned with salt and pepper before serving.
The salad was a precut from Costco. It was washed, and a simple salad dressing from a nut butter was made.
Black Bean Loaf without any oil was designed as a fasting food for "lent"
- 1 cup black rice
- 1.5 cup black beans
- 2 tbsp chopped onions
- 1 carrot peeled and chopped
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 3 tbsp oats
- 1/2 tsp salt season to taste
- pepper season to taste
- cumin season to taste
- garlic powder season to taste
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tbsp flour unbleached
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Cook rice and black beans according to the instructions. Usually, I cook them in the pressure cooker for 35 min with natural pressure release. You can also cook just rice and use beans from the can. Discard all liquids to avoid that the mixture is too wet.
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Chop the onions and carrot and add all the ingredient in a container. Add the spices and season to your taste.
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Pour the mixture into a silicon loaf form. Please note that in this recipe we follow the fasting rules and cannot use oil; thus a silicon form is ideal.
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Preheat oven to 350F and cook for 35 min. Let cool
Nut butter salad dressings are a good alternative instead of using oils and any dairy products.
- 1 tsp nut-butter almonds, peanuts, tahini etc.
- 2 tsp vinegar apple
- salt season to taste
- pepper season
- 1 tsp parsley fine chopped option
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Whisk ingredients together. Add a little bit of water to make an excellent emulsion.
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