Forgiving recipes for vegans & vegetarians

This hearty green salad with avocado and mushroom satisfies both your tastebuds and your tum. And there’s no rice, no quinoa, no couscous, no pasta. Just heaps of delicious fresh veggies. Just what your body ordered.

This instant raw vegan feta cheese is an awesome recipe to add to your collection. With just almonds, lemon juice, garlic, olive oil, salt and water, it’s a fantastic substitute for tangy, salty feta in all kinds of vegan recipes.

With only four wholefood ingredients, this raw vegan chocolate coconut pudding is not only delicious, it’s also fantastically easy to make. It’s so creamy, sweet and chocolately, that it couldn’t possibly be healthy as well. But it is.

With just three wholefood ingredients and some water, almost no preparation time and an unbelievably goooooood taste, this raw vegan cashew cream is likely to become one of your kitchen staples.

There’s really nothing traditional about this raw vegan pesto recipe, except perhaps the basil and garlic, but it’s so delicious that I hope you’ll forgive it for being a little different. And not only is it bursting with amazing colour and flavour, but it’s also entirely nut-free, and my son loves it!

This healthy, homemade, oil free popcorn is fast and easy to make on the stove-top, and also incredibly delicious. It’s also vegan, wholefood and great fun to make with kids. I just love it.

Making your own homemade raw muesli is so easy, and I love making it because I get to blend it just the way I like it. There’s nuts, there’s seeds, there’s grains, there’s dried fruit, there’s a bit of everything I love. Which is why I like to refer to this as my “random muesli…

There’s nothing quite like starting a cold winter’s day with a warm, hearty breakfast, and this raw banana oatmeal porridge fits the bill nicely. It’s fast, it’s easy and it’s oh so satisfying.

This raw taco salad is so delicious. I can’t believe how much salad greens I’m eating. And I always feel full and satisfied afterwards, like I’ve eaten the heartiest winter meal.

I love the simplicity of this basil mustard salad. The tang of the mustard, the wonderful aromatics in the basil, the creaminess of the avocado and the chunks of tomato just do it for me. And it’s the kind of thing you can make up on the spot for lunch in less than 10 minutes.

If you’re looking for a dairy free, nut-free yoghurt alternative, give my avocado banana yoghurt recipe a try. And although it does look a bit like avocado snot, I promise that it tastes like a tangy, sweet banana and vanilla yoghurt.