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Vegan Home Cooks

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Come join the Vegan Home Cooks!

Participation is really easy, just take a picture of what you cooked today and post it, no recipes needed.


This is a public forum for a discord server of friends who are all vegans and cook at home for their families.

We are here to share some inspiration, to see what others are doing and to stay engaged in something that is both our hobby and a required task.

This forum is not a "food porn" community, a recipe book or a place to teach you how to cook. It is a place for people who already cook to meet other people like themselves and provide on topic support and conversation as much as long distance friends on the internet can do. We are doing show and tell about what we made and we don't care about its instagram worthiness.

Veganism isn’t a diet but I have to eat every day. This is for the vegan home cooks. Anything non vegan will be deleted.


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1. Be Vegan.

If it is not vegan it doesn’t belong here… or anywhere.

2. Post home cooking.

No restaurant or fast food. This is what every other vegan space is about and we don’t want to promote any large or small business tyrants.

3. Join the Discord

We’re an active community of vegan home cooks that like to talk about what we are cooking today.

4. Do not make any rude comments or digs at anyone’s food, cooking style, specific diet, restrictions or technique.

While we are all cooks, we all have different requirements and we’re not asking for help, we are doing show and tell.

5. Do not use trademarked brands

Use generic names. We’re cooking with tvp not whatever business brands it and we’re not trying to turn comrades into billboards. No plant-based vegan-pandering capitalist crap like Impossible, Beyond, Dairy-company owned “vegan” cheese.

6. Do not ask for a recipe without otherwise engaging the OP (No posts that are just “recipe?”)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To expand:

  • soak dry chickpeas the night before (or rinse canned ones).
  • fry the onions and garlic till onions are transparent.
  • add diced tomatoes and a teaspoon of garam masala and simmer for 10 mins.
  • put sauce and chickpeas and diced boiled sweet potatoes into a pressure cooker and cook for 10 mins. If you don't have a pressure cooker, slow cooking for an hour also works.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Expand on what? This isn't how I make it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, but some beginner cooks (like me) need a little more explicit step by step instruction.

I deciphered your recipe and wrote it more explicitly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's not correct though? I can add more detailed steps if someone wants them (and I'll edit my comment), but detailed step by step instruction isn't the intent of this community so I didn't think to provide them unless explicitly asked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think they do those steps though.

For example I pressure cook unsoaked chickpeas for like 40 minutes instead of soaking sometimes. If you're pressure cooking the onions no need to saute them first. Etc...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

10 min seems a bit too short for chickpeas soaked even overnight... or am I just doing something wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did 40 mins but mostly because I wanted the sweet potatoes to disintegrate. 30 is generally okay for soaked chickpeas in my EPC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Add a little baking soda to your soak water to help them cook all the way through. I only cook my chickpeas for twenty minutes when they've been treated this way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does this cause issues with taste at all (bitterness)? I imagine you wouldn't want to reuse the water in that scenario as well, is that correct?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You drain and rinse them, then cook in fresh water. No issues with flavor at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Depends on your pressure cooker I guess? In India we would measure by whistles of the cooker :)