High-Protein Vegan Meals EVERYONE Should Know

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*IN THIS VIDEO*

🔪 *MY KITCHEN ESSENTIALS*

*Key Moments*
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Recipe One - A Delicious Dip
03:48 Recipe Two - Asian-Inspired Noodles
09:37 Recipe Three - Actually Good Grain Bowl

[LauraW-J]

Tip- The flavor of Quinoa is greatly improved by taking just a minute to toast it in a pan until the quinoa just starts turn color slightly and starts to make popping sounds. You must constantly keep it moving while toasting. Take off the heat immediately and cook as normal. This brings our a wonderful nutty flavor in the quinoa and to me is always worth the small amount of time.

[LilGrasshopper]

I am here to help with the quinoa woes. My credentials: having a Peruvian mamá ;) First off: the package always give the wrong water to quinoa ratio which is guaranteed to give you mushy soggy quinoa. You want more like a 1.5-1.75 cup water to 1 cup quinoa ratio. Second: toast that quinoa with some oil in the pot before cooking it. Let it get all toasty smelling. The bonus to doing this is that when you pour in the water it goes straight to a boil and you just pop on the lid, turn the temp up until you hear it boiling and then reduce to simmer for 15-20min. Third: use a cast iron pot. I never could replicate the quinoa of my childhood until I was recently gifted a cast iron Dutch oven by my mamá. Now when I take the lid off it is fluffy and the kernals are popped and curly like they should be. Fourth: take the pot off the heat, I like to sprinkle a bit of lemon juice in and give it a stir, put the lid back on and let it sit for 5 min. It will be just perfect when you take the lid off again. I guarantee you will grow to love quinoa if you can cook it properly!

[litbalfreak]

Nisha, your recipes are helping me pull myself out of depression. When my mental health suffers, I stop cooking for myself. I live off of packaged foods and delivery, feeling worse about myself each time. I recently started feeling better and started going to the gym again. My next step was learning new easy and nutritious recipes, and this video helped me make the first new dish in almost a year. Thank you so much! I know I’m going to try another one this week.

[emilygermain]

I'm currently pregnant and I've been trying to get extra protein in my diet without resorting to meat. These recipes are so great - thanks so much!!

[michellej]

Something I love about this video is how you're showing how you are multitasking. I need to meal prep but it takes me so long. Seeing how you have a few "fires" going, even while you film is both fun and helpful

[aidancroft]

Your videos are constantly getting better! Its been such a treat to watch this channel grow :) Thank you for everything,

[joylox]

Instead of whole-wheat pasta, I found edamame, lentil or black bean pasta because I'm gluten free, and it has 20g protein per serving. It has a slightly more chewy texture than a regular pasta, but it's really good! It makes any pasta dish much higher protein compared to wheat, corn, or rice noodles.

[fitleighhill]

You are my FAVORITE chef on YouTube!!! So real & I laugh at least once during every video 😅 thank you so much for the yummy recipes ❤❤❤

[pinchowhimsy]

Definitely want to try the edamame toast! Not sure if anyone mentioned this but lentil, chickpea, and pea pastas have more protein than regular pasta, in case folks want to up their protein in pasta dishes. The only downside is the texture of the noodles is usually a bit different (but ZenB spaghetti is pretty good).

[cynthiahawkins]

Those recipes and tips in the kitchen on boiling pasta water, quinoa/sheet pan, etc., were fantastic. Thank you. And, great that you posted this video on a Saturday. So helpful to get my meals ready for the week.

[morocotopo]

God, that tofu ricotta should be a 101 vegan dish for everyone. I can't believe how good and easy it is. Thank you!!

[jot]

All the recipes look great! For the pasta it might be helpful in this recipe to reserve some of the pasta water for the sauce as the starch in it will help with the creaminess. For the quinoa toasting it in olive oil will help improve the flavor and prevent it from clumping together.

[Sarah-unvk]

You're quirky and weird and hilarious. Never change.

[renzobarbieri]

0:11 you're the best Nisha!! Every recipe of yours I've cooked was just perfect, thank you so much for everything ❤️

[ashya]

Another quinoa tip - if you miss the starchiness of rice, adding a spoonful or two of rice into the ricecooker with quinoa ( I use a 1:2 ratio). Also like rice- adding ginger slice/mustard seed/other flavorings is good

Also replace wheat pasta w chickpea/lupin/ other protein pastas or noodles with buckwheat noodles

[magdalengrenier]

these are amazing! i’ve been making your recipes for a long time and recently have been in the gym and trying to hit 30+ grams of protein per meal. i love how these are so well thought out and put together and proves that i don’t have to eat dry bland food just to build muscle. please make more of these!

[uyrfjzg]

Love the humor, thanks for sprinkling in some silly personality! I’ve had to switch up my diet a bit so this protein video is right on time! Going to make the quinoa dish now 😊.

[kerowyn]

I really feel your workflow during preparation of the 2nd recipe: Add an ingredient to the sauce, stop to do something else, add the next one and so on - somehow my cooking always ends with this phase where you have to do x steps simultaneously as well 😀

[lesliegargi]

Not looking to get swole but need help with managing my weight loss and PCOS so high protein recipes are great for me since I usually have to tweak other recipes to get more protein!

[Kiterpuss]

I absolutely adore how we can tell from your demeanor that the quinoa dish was not your shtick. You had an excitement when cooking everything else but with that dish you were more excited by the garlic. It's such a human moment and I completely understand that feeling of "I'll cook it but I'm not excited about it."