Whats good Food Tube, its your boy Tim Shieff. Athlete, world champion free runner
and also a vegan. Back once again in the food tube kitchen with another great vegan recipe
this time, its the kebab. My vegan koftes are packed full of middle eastern flavours,
chick peas, coriander, the garlic and the ginger. With a yogurt minty sauce and a peanut dip.
For me the best vegan dishes aren't about replacing the meat but combining the right ingredients,
with the right flavours and I'm going to show you how.
We're going to start things off by toasting your seeds, cumin and coriander.
Teaspoon of each. Why that's toasting you're going to cut up 2 cloves of garlic
and a thumb ginger.
Just use a teaspoon, scrape off the skin, save wastage.
Once the ginger is peeled chop it all up with the garlic, it doesn't matter how fine
because its going to go in a processor anyway. Go back to the seeds, should be toasted by now
into the pestle and mortar and crush them up. See it smoking?
Smell those flavours right now! Once you've ground it up into a coarse powder,
into the food processor. A splash of oil in the pan, once the pans heated up add the
garlic and the ginger. A couple of minutes in the pan, cook it off until its golden.
Then we're going to add it to the seeds, oil and all. Leave that in the processor for now
we're going to come back to that. In the meantime we're going to grate 2 courgettes
or zucchinis for our American viewers, this is great fun. Once they're grated up
you're going to put them in a colander, with a generous pinch of salt.
You're going to ring all the water out, get rid of all the moisture so the kebabs
stick together properly. Now that's done you want to add them to the food processor as well.
Now grab a bunch of coriander, rip off the stalks and save the leaves for later.
Now we're going to add 400 grams of the chickpeas, drained.
40 grams of breadcrumbs and a pinch of pepper. You want to blitz it up
but leave it a bit chunky so it retains some texture.
There we have it! Looking great. You've got your mix ready
you want to wet your hands so the mix doesn't stick. Take a spoon
you're going to make it into a fat little finger.
You want to make 8 koftes out of this, you're gonna crack on with the others.
Put the koftes in the fridge just to chill for a minute while I make my dip and sauce.
You want to take 4 tablespoons of soy yoghurt, 3 sprigs of mint
finely slice it up, take half a cucumber. Just like with the courgette you want to take
as much liquid out of the cucumber as possible. So we're going to scrape out the seeds
then slice up the cucumber. We'll cut them into little chunky cubes so it makes a nice bite in the dip.
Add the cucumber to the mix and finally, a squeeze of lemon.
Then give it a good mix, then onto the nutty sauce.
Finely slice a small onion and a clove of garlic. Put them in a pan, a drizzle of oil...
Once they've been sizzling in the pan for a couple of minutes
you want to add 100 grams of cashew nuts.
Once your cashews are lightly toasted we're going to put them in the food processor.
Now you want to add 140ml of light coconut milk and 2 tablespoons of peanut butter.
Then you're gonna blitz it until is creamy.
It smells so good this mix... the fried onions with the peanuts, fried off cashews,
a little bit of garlic as well, and the coconut milk just for extra cream.
Pour this mix into a bowl and pull your koftes out of the fridge.
They're nice and set ready to fry off, we're going to put them in the pan.
There is enough oil in it from earlier, the less oil you use the better.
The pan is on about a medium heat, you want to cook them for about 2 or 3 minutes
until they're golden on all sides or piping hot throughout.
You're going to do 4 at a time in this.
So koftes are done, I've had some pitas warming up in the oven already,
now to prepare a kebab. Going to add the dips...
Top it off with a sprinkle of coriander...
There you go ladies and gentlemen, my vegan koftes. Time to find out just how delicious this is.
Tastes amazing, so many middle eastern flavours. The mixture of the nutty sauce
with the yogurt dip and the crunchy koftes. Goes together so well.
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