hey y'all welcome back to Make It Dairy Free I am Larisha and today we are
going to be showing you not one but two ways on how to make vegan sloppy joes
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so first I need to say because she watches every video mom I love you okay so now
I'm sure you're wondering what the heck that is about and what it has to do with
making vegan sloppy joes growing up we always had dinner on the table however
my mom, God love her, does not like to cook at all we had things like frozen
dinners canned pasta boxed pizza you name it if it came in a box it was usually on
our table for dinner somehow though she made a mean fried chicken anywho sloppy
joes was one of my favorite meals growing up but as you may have guessed
it from everything I just said it was like can of manwich pour it over the
meat dinner it was done it wasn't until college that I really
started experimenting with how to cook foods on my own and learning that a lot
of things that I would normally buy a sauce in a bottle jar or a box of
something could actually be made from scratch and it always tasted better it
was actually pretty easy to cook on my own now these two versions of sloppy
joes aren't exactly completely from scratch they are using a few hacks like
some bottled ketchup but it's close enough so the first way we are going to
be showing you how to make vegan sloppy joes is with a walnut meat mixture we
have another video where we show you how to make walnut taco meat it's
basically the same process but we're just making sloppy joes with it this
time and a few tweaks and then if you are allergic to walnuts or maybe they're
just expensive where you live then we are going to be showing you how to do it
with lentils we also show you how to make it spicy or not spicy depending on
your preferences so no matter which way you choose they're all going to be
fantastic methods we're going to show you how to do everything quick and easy
so let's get right into the kitchen and show you how to do it
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all right so the first thing we are going to do is soak our walnuts you need
enough water to cover the walnuts completely now you can soak for as
little as thirty minutes in boiling water or you can soak them in an
airtight container in the fridge for up to five days before making we prefer
soaking for at least 24 hours when they have soaked long enough drain all the
water off and give them a rinse add them to a food processor and blend until
crumbles now don't blend too long unless you want walnut butter but that's not
why we're here right now you may need to scrape down the sides once or twice to
get all the walnut into crumbles set that aside and now we are going to chop
up our vegetables for this recipe we are using bell peppers red onions and garlic
just dice up the peppers and onions and mince the garlic you can use any color
bell pepper we love yellow or red to add in some
color and for the onion you can use yellow sweet or red onions I'm using red
because that's what we have on hand right now now we're going to add some
oil to a skillet and start to saute our onions and peppers if your oil free you
can do this with vegetable stock saute until soft about two to three minutes
and then we're going to add in our garlic stir together and cook for
another minute now we're going to season our mixture we love adding the dried
spices at this point so it has a longer time to build the flavor profile we're
adding in garlic powder chili powder and smoked paprika the smokiness of the
paprika really helped build the flavors as a meat substitute give this a good
stir around really trying to make sure that the seasoning is hitting all the
fresh ingredients you just added and then we're going to add in the walnut
crumbles again you are going to really work to combine all the ingredients well
and then we are going to add the rest of our ingredients for the base of this
meat mix starting with some diced tomatoes if you have seen our walnut
taco meat then you know we use sun-dried tomatoes in there but because we're
making sloppy joes and we want this to have more liquid so it's well more
sloppy you could use regular or fire roasted diced tomatoes with the juice
also adding in soy sauce and liquid smoke and give that a good stir around
then this is all going to cook you want all the liquid to absorb off the mixture
but you don't want it to burn so you're going to stir it around every few
minutes for twenty to thirty minutes until a nice brown color has the
developed then adding ketchup mustard and brown sugar give it a stir and
combine and let it all heat through and bam vegan sloppy joes
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but wait we aren't
done there whether you're allergic to walnuts or maybe they're expensive for
you we're going to show you a second way to make vegan sloppy joes this time with
lentils the process is pretty similar start by cooking the lentils according
to the package a few minutes before they are done saute your vegetables and
season them just like we did with the walnut mixture then we're going to stir
it together and add in those cooked lentils we use green lentils because red
ones tend to get mushy then add in the diced tomatoes we did drain off the
juice to the tomatoes with the lentil recipe because we don't want it to cook
as long and then soy sauce and liquid smoke and give it a stir together
finally add the brown sugar ketchup and mustard
we did add sriracha to this one to make it spicy which is completely optional
and you could also add this to the walnut mixture as well then stir
together because lentils are naturally softer than the walnut mixture you want
to gently combine here let it all cook together for a few minutes until heated
through and that's it serve on hamburger buns with any toppings you may like
maybe slice cheese or some red or green onions the choice is yours serve with a
side of fries or maybe put the fries on the bun with your mixture
either way we hope you enjoy one or both of these ways to make vegan sloppy joes
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give it a comment down below which way you would want to try first have a great
rest of your week and we'll see you soon
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