Today I would like to share with you a recipe that was one of my favourite dishes when I was a child. It is full of taste and full of veggies. It is a typical Hungarian casserole, originally made with cauliflower, rice, meat, sour cream and cheese. It took me long time to develop a vegan, oil free and whole food version that is the same yummy as the original, but I finally made it.
It is fun to cook and even more fun to eat it, specially that you get a lot of compliments from the whole family. Even my little son, who can be really picky with food, finds it really really really delicious.
In this version I use soy granulate instead of minced pork and a creamy cashew sauce with beer yeast instead of the sour cream and cheese.
This amount is enough for a 35 cm x 25 cm baking dish, for 4 to 6 persons. If you have leftovers for the next day, don’t worry, it is even more delicious when it stands a night and you bake it in the oven one more time.
Ingredients:
2 cauliflowers
100 g soy granulat
250 g rice
100 g cashews
300 ml soy milk
1 tomate
1 paprika
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 spoon of paprika powder
1 spoon of smoked paprika powder
2 spoons of beer yeast
400 ml tomato puree
100 ml dry red wine
I cut both cauliflower and cook it in a big pot in salted water. They do not need to be completely soft, because they will come into the oven.
I boil water for the rice, salt it and cook the rice.
I soak the soy granulate in warm water. And I also soak the cashews in a bowl of warm water.
I preheat the oven to 200 degree.
When the soy granulate is soft, I press all water out of it, salt it, and soak it one more time in red wine and tomato sauce.
I dice onion and garlic and heat in a pot 2 spoons of soy sauce. When it is hot, I fry the onion and garlic in it. In the meantime I cut the tomato and paprika into little pieces and put it to the onion and garlic. They can fry together for 10 -15 minutes. Then I spice it with a bit more salt, pepper, a spoon of paprika and a spoon of smoked paprika.
Then comes the soy granulate together with the wine-tomato puree, and I cook them 20 minutes.
In this time I make the cashew creme. I place the soaked cashews without the water into a mixer with 300 ml of soy milk, 2 spoons of beer yeast, salt and pepper. I mix it to a homogen sauce.
And now the last step before our yummy casserole can jump into the oven. I layer first cauliflower roses on the bottom of the baking dish. Then I pour 100 ml of the cashew creme over it. Then comes the rice, the soy granulate together with the sauce, then one more layer of cauliflowers. In the end I pour the rest of the cashew creme over and place in the oven for 20 minutes until the top gets brown.
I wish you a lot of joy with this recipe and I hope you love it as much as me and my family does.
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I wish you a beautiful day!
Lots of hugs,
Zoé