53g vegan protein, 450 calorie nutrition bomb

Marchmallow

60 grams uncooked edamame noodles
90 grams quorn vegan chicken pieces
1 generous cup of broccoli
1 generous cup of fresh spinach
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1 tsp toasted sesame oil
1 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
3 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes

1. Heat the oil in a nonstick frying pan. Add the quorn and cook until golden brown. Meanwhile, steam the broccoli until tender.
2. Cook the noodles in a pan of boili v water. Remove them after three minutes (they cook fast) and rinse with cold water.
3. Add the cooked broccoli and drained noodles to the pan. Remove from heat for next step.
4. Mix the mirin, soy sauce and sugar with a little splash of water until sugar is dissolved. Pour over ingredients in pan and return to medium high heat.
5. Mix well in the pan, thoroughly coat everything in the sauce. Cook until the sauce has cooked down and almost no liquid remains.
6. Add the spinach and cook gently, covered, until spinach has begun to wilt but still has some shape.
7. Transfer into a bowl, sprinkle the nutritional yeast over and mix thoroughly.
8. Enjoy tasty, protein packed, vitamin and iron rich, bursting with B vitamins vegan noodle dish for 450 calories!

debtay123

wish you had a picture

Kullerva

A lot of these ingredients are kind of esoteric. I mean, I could see replacing grocery store bean noodles for the edamame noodles and some form of TVP for the quorn...I hate sesame oil so that would probably get switched out with olive oil...I have no idea what mirin is. (And it's not like I haven't been around the block on vegetarian dishes.) It also uses a lot of dishes (skillet, steamer, pot, 2 mixing bowls, utensils) to make just one meal. Doesn't seem like the effort's worth it.

janejellyroll

Kullerva wrote: »

A lot of these ingredients are kind of esoteric. I mean, I could see replacing grocery store bean noodles for the edamame noodles and some form of TVP for the quorn...I hate sesame oil so that would probably get switched out with olive oil...I have no idea what mirin is. (And it's not like I haven't been around the block on vegetarian dishes.) It also uses a lot of dishes (skillet, steamer, pot, 2 mixing bowls, utensils) to make just one meal. Doesn't seem like the effort's worth it.

Mirin is a type of rice wine that's common in Japanese cooking. If you can't find it or don't want to use it, you can easily substitute rice wine vinegar or a dry white wine.

Marchmallow

It uses one saucepan, one frying pan, a steamer that sits on top of a saucepan and one bowl to eat out of. Considering the ingredients I don't think that's too bad. It only takes around 10-15 minutes to cook, I consider this a quick and easy dinner. Plus you can double or triple it for meal prepping.

As for the ingredients being esoteric, they're pretty standard items in the UK but obviously if you have a problem with an ingredient it's fine to swap it out for something of a similar nutrition profile. I chose the ones that I did because they're very tasty. ☺

Thanks for taking the time out to critique the recipe!