High-Protein Vegan Meals EVERYONE Should Know
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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
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.
Good tip! You could also try to cook it in vegetable broth - that way the quinoa itself does not taste as boring :)
The same goes for couscous and buckwheat - beware the buckwheat will pop if left too long!
Also, tri-colour quinoa has more taste than just white quinoa. Make sure you use boiling water/broth after toasting or it will spit all over the place!
+ add one whole smashed clothe of garlic into the broth, then you get very tasty quinoa :)
But do you skip the rinsing of the quinoa, then?
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!
Thank you for the advice!
Thank you!!!
Ooooh, thank you!!! I will try toasting it!😊
thank you! this sounds like it'd be soo yum 😃
I might try quinoa again after these tips lol. I have never liked the texture but hopefully these tips help!
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.
Well done, keep going, keep growing ❤
Keep up the good work ❤ You can do this. Going to the gym was a great way to start getting out of your depression. I exercise Mon- Friday using my FitOn app at home to beat my depression. You eating vegan & exercising is doing more than what the majority of ppl are doing so keep going !! You're awesome 😊
I go through the same. I’m in my “awake” phase (it’s not complete dark around me at the moment) off my depression and I’m cooking for myself again. I hope we can continue making many meals for ourselves ❤😋
More Power to you!!
This seems like I wrote it!
Your videos are constantly getting better! Its been such a treat to watch this channel grow :) Thank you for everything,
that’s so sweet to hear 🥺 thank you!
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!!
Check out Cheap Lazy Vegan and Vegan Macros 101 (Vicki) on Instagram!!
you're harming your baby by restricting the nutrients it needs for healthy development... they literally can't develop properly just because of your ego
I'm currently meaty and trying to get extra protein in my diet without resorting to pregnancy. These recipes are indeed great - thanks indeed!!
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
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.
You're quirky and weird and hilarious. Never change.
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I second that!
😂 the struggling face for lifting the 2 lbs dumbbell was hilarious! ❤
Agreed!!
She's an INFP personality type, I'd bet my life on it
You are my FAVORITE chef on CZcams!!! So real & I laugh at least once during every video 😅 thank you so much for the yummy recipes ❤❤❤
☺ I'm honored to hear that and glad you're getting in a laugh!
God, that tofu ricotta should be a 101 vegan dish for everyone. I can't believe how good and easy it is. Thank you!!
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.
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.
0:11 you're the best Nisha!! Every recipe of yours I've cooked was just perfect, thank you so much for everything ❤️
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).
Actually sometimes its just a marketing stunt, regular pasta has around 15% protein, chickpea and lentil pasta has often something similar so check the nutrition stats. Also they just taste bad imo haha
@@cornicheck500 I compared the nutrition facts on the box and online, and 1 serving of bean pasta has about 13g of protein. That's quite high for pasta and definitely higher than whole wheat pasta for similar calories. Plus I think the video only mentioned like 7g of protein for the whole wheat pasta. And other people may not like it but I love eating the bean pastas. I mostly eat bean pasta now. I only recommend things I would do myself!
Great tip, thanks!😊
This! I use an edamame pasta which is 42% protein and 23% fibre per 100g. Much much better than the plain pastas and honestly really tasty!
I’m next going to look into making my own hemp flour pasta, which is a whopping 50% protein and 18% fibre! Haven’t tried it before so I can’t say anything on that ones taste. They’re quite equal though as you’re only trading protein for fibre!
Agreed, I didn’t know edamame was in the frozen section, but admittedly, I’ve never actually looked for it there.
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!
I love your videos because you are so organized from shopping & meal prep, easy & simple. Your recipes are so delicious!!!!!
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
Thank you! I’m definitely going to try these. Love that you include tips on versatility, and you cook with pépitas! Pickled veggies on top, yum!
I've been watching you for a few years now, and I see you're nearing one million subscribers! Hope you throw yourself a big celebration when you hit that number. You deserve it girl!
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 😊.
Thank you for delicious, easy, quick high protein meal options! I can't wait to try them all!
My favorite cooking channel! You're a joy to watch and your recipes are always so delicious 😋 I get excited when a new video comes out every time! Yay 🎉
Exactly what I need in the new year, looking forward to try all of these. Thank you so much Nisha!
The edamame avocado mash was phenomenal. Use half the soy (or tamari) at first to see if you like the salt level. I used one tablespoon of tamari and found it to be pretty salty.
I love how you say what we can leave out, or any substitutes. Thank you for your videos 💕
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."
That pasta looks absolutely delicious! I can't get over how creative these recipes are and how great is your video editing!
The perfect video to watch this Saturday morning. I’m going to try the almond butter pasta today. Thank you 👍🏼
I love your channel because you make me rethink cooking. Almond butter and maple syrup on pasta...I could never dream that up.
So thrilled to find your videos today! Can’t wait to try your recipes.
They all look absolutely delicious. Can‘t wait to try them! Thank you for your videos, I‘m a big fan!!
Ive started crumbling my tofu instead of just cubing it up and it really makes a world of difference! These are great recipes!
I haven't even cooked these, but I can imagine the layers of flavor covering all my taste buds. 🤤Will make them soon.
I really like the kinda funny editing in this video, livens things up a bit and makes it both instructional and fun :) thanks so much for the recipes
Great recipes! Thank you! This is how I sometimes make quinoa when I have time; sauté some shallots and red pepper in the pot first. Sometimes, I add turmeric and garlic too. Then add the quinoa and sauté a little bit. Add vegetable broth instead of water and bring to boil and then lower the heat until cooked. It’s very tasty! I love your videos!
I have made these recipes a hundred times but sometimes I love to watch the video again. I find Nisha just so hilarious and a natural comedian. These meals are superb!
Keep showing the world that plant based food is superb and you use A LOT OF WHOLE foods too. Superb!
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 😀
Wow, that's so perfect! Going to try some of them next Sunday for my meal prep. 😍
This all looks so good! I make my food at work and if i'm on a big time crunch i could settle for the pre packaged lentil/quinoa microwavable packets at the store and just have the toppings ready to go!
What brilliant recipes ❤. I can’t wait to try. Thank you so much for your wonderful inspiring channel 🙏🏼😊
I've been exercising more regularly and was worried about my protein intake, I don't like taking supplements so thank you so much for these!!
I love your sense of humor and recipes are always amazing!
Nisha. AMAZING recipe. Every bite had a burst of all the ingredients. You are the yoda of new recipes. Thank you❤
I was looking for a fast and easy breakfast to take to work. I saw the video on your smashed edamame toast. It honestly didn't look very good to me. I couldn't imagine those ingredients melding into something delicious. I made the smashed part and thought I was right but being a true believer in your cooking abilities, I went ahead and put it together with the sauerkraut and hemp seeds. Wow! I took one bite and thought she did it! She made me a believer. Thank you for another wonderful recipe!
Your videos are not only informative but adorable and fun to watch. Thanks for the videos and the channel!
I think you are amazing and you are so funny too! I so appreciate your videos! You have encouraged me tremendously on my plant based diet journey! Thank you!
I always love your recipes! And I really enjoy your humor. The workout excerpt absolutely cracked me up!
You’re so inspiring and talented. Thankful for your channel!
Nisha! I made that 2nd dish and can verify the 5 spice powder is a game changer...I wasn't sure that I should buy it but I'm a teacher off for the summer so yeah I had to splurge lol. Tmrw I plan to make the edamame toaat as my avocado needed time to ripen.😅
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!
Thank you for the recipes, they all sound and look delicious!
As always, thanks for your wonderful recipes. I made the garlicky quinoa and lentils with ricotta for dinner tonight and it was fantastic. I can't wait to try the other recipes.
Thank you so much for these delicious recipes that are also quick and easy to make! Tonight I made your second recipe, the yummy noodles and broccoli with tofu - I used buckwheat soba, added extra tahini and almond butter, topped it off with lime juice and sesame seeds. Big hit and a recipe with " good bones" ( easy to substitute veggies or noodles). Your sauce is my favorite ! I also love your energy and you inspire me to cook❤❤❤
These all look amazing!!! Definitely going to try, love your recipes.
Fantastic mix of recipes, thanks so much for sharing.👍❤️😊
I tried the dip with edaname beans and it was delicious and a nice change from hummus. I never thought of using edaname like this and I look forward to trying the tofu ricotta 😋
I tried the pasta dish today and I can proudly say that I did okay. It tasted good. Thank you.
I love your sense of humor in addition to your expertise. Almond sauce? I’m in.
Another great video Nisha🎉I pretty much live on food /recipes that you inspire or that you have created. Thank you so much.
You’re also very entertaining. I’m with you in regards to quinoa as well😊
i LOVE your tofu ricotta recipe! we’ve been making it a bunch lately and having ricotta toast on bakery sourdough
Oh that’s so fun! I love it that way too with some pickled onions or carrots.
Wow! We tried the garlicky quinoa last night - UNBELIEVABLY good! This will 100% be one of our staples. Love the high protein post! Exactly what we needed
I've always been on the fence with quinoa also, but I figured out a perfect formula and cooking method that even after it's it's it's still great! I rinse the quinoa and cook it with equal parts water in the instant pot for one minute and let it go down naturally. Works like a dream
I have made MANY of your meals. I love love love your videos. The food is amazing and I can actually make them. 😊 THANK YOU!
i make a very similar recipe to the pasta one she showed and i love to add lightly pan-roasted chickpeas to mine! its got protein and carbs and is just such a yummy addition!
I make quinoa like a pilaf kind of. I sauté a bunch of different veggies (onions garlic zucchini mushrooms bell peppers) then toss in the dry quinoa and toss it around with the veggies for a minute or two to let it toast and take on the flavor of the veggies, then I use vegetable stock instead of water, bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from heat. Then fluff and get all the veggies and quinoa well incorporated.
Can’t wait to try some of these! I’m always looking for fast, high protein meals.
You are so funny, informative and have some wonderful recipes!! I love watching and learning from your videos!
Thank you for these!
I'm not vegan, but your channel inspires me to try more plant-based recipes and so far they all have been delicious, even to my veggie hater boyfriend!
you are so fun to watch... love all your recipes. Love to try these High-protein meals . Thanks !
☺️ thank you! My mom’s name is Neela!
Dude, seriously!! I love when a random video of yours appears and its as awesome a every 👊🙏
What a coincidence! I just made your amazing lentil curry recipe last night! You’re so fun to watch, thanks for these recipes!❤
Love your recipes, some of them are my main go to's so excited to watch these! Also love how funny you make you cooking videos lol
“I can feel myself getting Swole” 😂 I am so glad I stumbled onto your channel. Been a blog follower for a while, but this is next-level. Keep doing what you’re doing, your recipes are always delicious and you’re quirky and funny! 😊
You are teaching people while making it really enjoyable to watch, lots of naughty and unnaughty little comments and jokes. I'm just so happy we have you in the vegan community!
Oxo makes a mandolin just for garlic! It's awesome love it.
as someone who is currently pregnant and hyper focused on getting tons of protein (way more than the normal amount) i appreciate this!! ❤
I needed this! I don't want to get ripped, but I have a disease that means I don't absorb protein properly, and doctors are FOREVER trying to get me to eat meat. I'd rather just be sick, frankly. So this helps so much!
I think you're gonna have a sick stomach eating meat anyways lol
you're already sick in the head lol... the plant foods you're eating involved killing animals too, so you're not actually absolved of guilt from the suffering of animals... and you're harming yourself in a way that no other living thing ever would haha, you're literally completely disconnecting yourself from nature over some ideology
You never let us down Nisha!
I like quinoa either flavored by a nice salad dressing (I sometimes use it instead of grains or half by half with grains in tabbouleh to get some proteins in there) or baked with wild mushrooms, so the quinoa is not so soggy. There is this traditional Czech Christmas dish for poor people called "Černý Kuba" (Black Jacob; the name was given to it because a black mushroom, black chanterelle or black trumpet was traditionally used). It's naturally meat-less, and the only animal product used was lard, which can be easily switched for some vegetable oil or preferably vegan butter. It's prepared with dried porcini and other forest mushrooms including those "trumpets of death" as the French call the black trumpets, some grains (traditionally barley groats), onions, garlic, and a bit of spices. You can use some fresh white mushrooms as well, but I would definitely mix them with at least a little bit of dried forest mushrooms, otherwise the flavor just won't be there. The preparation is simple: you soak and cook the grains (I use anything, including quinoa, but also millet or buckwheat or brown rice. It's definitely not traditional, but if I am not using quinoa and want some proteins in there, I mix in some lentils as well), fry diced onions on some fat until slightly brown, then add dried wild mushrooms that you soaked in cold water, ideally a day before cooking (or fresh mushrooms) and stew it together, add finelly chopped garlic spices (In Czech cuisine, it's traditionally marjory, pepper and caraway, but I guess herbs like thyme and a bit of cayene would work just as well), and in the end mix with the boiled and drained grains. For better taste, it's good to stew it on the pen with the other ingredients for a while. Then you put it all to an oven-safe dish coated with fat and bake on 180 °C for 20 - 30 minutes and it's done. With good forest mushrooms, this is definitely a very tasty dish (and for us who are mushroom hunting by ourselves, it is also quite cheap - just grains, fat and spices).
Fan friggin tastic! All 3 recipe's. They'll be on my list for grocery shopping and cooking next week!
This is really super cool! Thanks for this quick and very informative video.
Nisha! Rinsing the quinoa gets rid of the saponin which can cause stomach discomfort. Also, once I started cooking quinoa in my instant pot - 2 minutes high pressure and 10 minutes natural release- I always have fluffy quinoa. I toss in a bay leaf and a bit of furikake to season it. Never boring!
I love your recipes look so good, I will be trying it. Thank you!
I just whipped up the edamame toast and it did not disappoint! Thanks for yet another delicious recipe!
You are awesome! I do not cook. However, I am starting a vegan lifestyle and needed some help. I love your video so far! I am not only learning but entertained. I love your personality. You have made this journey a bit less scary.
Thank you!
Nisha! I feel like you have a sixth sense about taste🎇✨. You recipes are really good and they are our go to for inspiration and weekly planning. My boyfriend and I love you and your cooking skill so much ❤️🌶️
really high quality production , just discovered. your channel!
Literally the video I need!! Thank you!! ☺️☺️☺️
I’m so happy! I’ve decided to start weightlifting and I love trying vegan recipes so this is so perfect!
My favourite kind of pasta when looking for a high protein meal has got to be red lentil pasta the protein level varies by brand but some have 20grams of protein per serving and i usually pair it with some tofu pesto
All of these recipes look amazing!
i've been waiting for a high protein video from you !! your my fave vegan cook on here :)
I made the whole meal spaghetti with crumbed tofu! I was alittle sceptical about the almond butter BUT this is so delicious, fresh and addictive wow THANKYOU
Tried recipe two (Almond Butter Noodles) tonight and our guests were smitten! What a delicious and satisfying meal 🥰.
Recipes I’m Actually gonna try! Thanks!
Have you ever worked with lupini beans? Technically legumes, they are one of the most protien dense foods out there and contain all essential amino acids. They can be pretty difficult to prepare tho from dry, so you mostly see them pickled in stores
Gonna try that noodle recipe with shirataki noodles - can't waaaiiittt! Thanks so much.
Your tempeh tacos are my favorite! So cant wait to try these recipes
If I try the Edamame spread, I will try it with green garden peas instead of Avocado. Just because Avocado is less accessible where I live. Not the same, but probably also very delicious. As a bonus, this should even increase the amount of protein in this meal (37 instead of 31 gramms for two servings).
Thank you for this recommendation! I was looking for an avocado alternative, apparently they are pretty harsh on the environment.