Comforting Vegan Stew with Creamy Polenta
This will be the perfect dish for cold nights, and the leftovers are just as delicious. Filled with soy curls, carrots, potatoes, onion, and spinach this is going to be your new favorite meal, I promise!
Ingredients
Vegan Stew
- 1 ½ cups soy curls (60g)
- 2 cups (480ml) water, divided
- 12 baby potatoes halved (about 15.4 ounces/150g)
- 2 carrots peeled and chopped (about 1.5 ounces/35g)
- ⅓ sweet onion roughly chopped (about 2 ounces/56g)
- 2 cloves garlic roughly chopped
- ½ tablespoon (7ml) olive oil
- Pinch of salt and pepper
- ½ tablespoon (7ml) red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon better than bouillon
- 2 tablespoons (30g) tomato paste
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 cups (85g) spinach
Polenta
- ½ cups (70g) polenta, fine cornmeal
- 1 cup (240ml) water
- 1 cup (240ml) non dairy milk
- ⅛ cup (14g) vegan parmesan
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Add the soy curls and 1 cup (240ml) of water to a bowl. The soy curls should be covered by water, if you need more just add it. Set to the side and rehydrate for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare all the veggies,
- Once the soy curls are rehydrated drain excess water.
- In a medium sized pot add the oil, onion, garlic, and soy curls along with a pinch of salt and pepper. Sauté for 5 minutes over low heat until fragrant.
- Then add in the potatoes, carrots, red wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, better than bouillon, tomato paste, bay leaves, and the remaining 1 cup of water. Mix together and cover leaving the lid slightly tiled to vent.
- Simmer the stew over low heat for 30 minutes or until potatoes are fork tender. Prior to adding the spinach remove the bay leaves. In the last 3 minutes of cooking add the spinach so it wilts.
- Meanwhile, when the stew has been cooking for 25 minutes cook the polenta. In a small pot add all the polenta ingredients. Simmer over a low heat for 5 minutes and stir frequently. It will thicken quickly and should be creamy and thick.
- Once the polenta and stew are done taste and make any seasoning changes.
- Serve warm immediately and sprinkle with black pepper.
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Notes
- For this recipe I used Better than Bouillon. If you don't have that you can use 1 cup of vegetable broth in place of the 1 cup of water in step 4.
- If you would prefer to use tomato paste instead of tomato sauce that will work fine.
- You can use 1 regular sized potato cut into small pieces instead of the baby potatoes if you prefer.
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