Vegan Meal In A Dish … In No Time!

It’s great to have a list of fast, nourishing meals in mind for those nights when you’re tired after a long day. Here’s what we had for dinner a couple of evenings ago:

Vegan Meal In A Dish

Here’s all I needed to do to make this lovely plate of delicious food:

1. I cut up four juicy tomatoes and put them in a pot with extra virgin olive oil (maybe four TB), some minced garlic (two cloves) and lots of oregano (fresh would have been great, but since I didn’t have it on hand, I had to go with dried).  I let them simmer with the lid on while I made the rest of the meal.

2. I brought a pot of water to a boil and threw in some salt and extra virgin olive oil (about a tsp.) and added the black bean pasta to it. What a great find this product was! I keep it on the shelf all the time now.

3. While the pasta and tomatoes were cooking — which just takes a few minutes — I used my spiralizer to make a little zucchini “pasta”. It’s very festive looking with the black bean pasta. My spiralizer is a very simple tool. It does the job, although it does tend to lose some of the vegetable. There are many articles on the web analyzing the different types of spiralizers, and their pros and cons.

4. When the black bean pasta was al dente, I drained it and placed it on the dish, added some of the zucchini “pasta” on top of it, spooned on the stewed tomatoes seasoned to taste with salt and red pepper flakes, sprinkled on a little chopped parsley (again, fresh oregano would probably have been nicer).

Voila! A delicious and pretty home-cooked meal from real foods in ten minutes. Can’t do better than that!