Meatless Mondays: Wild Rice and Mediterranean Vegetables

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Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalise your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach.

Ingredients:

1 cup wild rice
1 cup long grain brown rice
4 cups filtered water
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 zucchini (courgette), diced
1/2 eggplant (aubergine), thinly sliced
2 bunches Chinese greens (eg Chinese broccoli or bok choy)
1 cup olives, diced and pitted if needed
1 cup sun dried tomatoes
1 cup slivered almonds
375 gr silken tofu

Method:

Cook 1 cup wild rice and 2 cups water in saucepan until white ends form (approx 20 minutes)
Cook 1 cup brown rice and 2 cups water in saucepan until tender
Combine both rice mixtures together and set aside
Saute garlic in wok
Add eggplant and zucchini, stir-fry until cooked
Add Chinese greens, cook until soft
Add sun dried tomatoes, olives, tofu and almonds, mix well
Combine with rice mixture

Serves 4-6 people

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About Viva la Vegan

Viva la Vegan! started to promote Leigh-Chantelle’s Recipe Calendars in 2005 and has since grown to be an interactive community for vegans focusing on positive education, information and vegan outreach. Through the vivalavegan.net website, Leigh-Chantelle’s focus is on educating people to alternative lifestyle choices, proving that via compassion we can heal ourselves and each other. Easy to prepare recipes; blogs, articles and podcasts; an interactive forum, informative and how-to videos, interviews with inspiring vegans, vegan mentoring and more. You can find Viva la Vegan! On FaceBook , Twitter , YouTube, Pinterest and Google+
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