Vegan Christmas Dinner!

So this Christmas is actually my first as a vegan, so it will be interesting (i hope so anyway). As Reuben is going home to Auckland for Christmas this year and I'm heading back to Waimate, we decided to have our own Christmas dinner together.

The menu was simple but delicious, nutty vegetable rissoles, with homemade guacamole and salad with macadamias, olives and cherry tomatoes. The rissoles recipe was actually on the stuff website and I used it but adapted it. The salad was an experiment, but I firmly believe it's hard to go wrong with salads.

Rissoles:

275g marinated tofu (we used the NZ stuff that's grown and made in Motueka)

1/2 cup pics peanut butter

70g ground almonds

35g sesame seeds

1 red capsicum (grated)

1 carrot (grated)

2 small slices of pumpkin (grated)

1/2 red onion finely chopped

1 1/2 tsp paprika

1 tsp chili powder

1 Tbsp soy sauce

salt

cracked black pepper

First you need to mash the tofu in a large bowl, it should resemble fine breadcrumbs. Add all remaining ingredients and then lightly oil your hands and shape into patties and palce on an oven tray.

Bake in the oven for approx 15 mins on each side at 180 degrees, or cook them on the BBQ or fry in a shallow frying pan. We served them with fresh guacamole (recipe in Nachos post below), vegan organic basil pesto and fruit chutney with salad.

Salad:

Lettuce or mesclun leaves

1/2 punnet cherry tomatoes cut in half

olives cut in half

macadamia nuts (handful)

red and green capsicum chopped

1/2 orange diced

12 orange squeezed over salad

Serve with bread or just salad either way they're great. Christmas dinner was accompanied by fresh strawberries dipped in dark chocolate! However, on actual Christmas day I'll be bringing my Chocolate Raspberry cake to dinner!