Are you looking to get your picky eater on board with your plant based lifestyle?! Here are your new favorite plant based recipes for picky eaters both kids and husbands (or wives)!
It’s so hard making dinners the please everyone let alone making them plant based when everyone is used to having meat and dairy on their plates. These recipes are so easy to customize to your picky eaters’ likes and dislikes and also make them forget these meals are plant based!
These are kid-friendly as well if your picky eater is a little one!
This post is all about plant based recipes for picky eaters.
Buffalo Chickpea Quesadillas
This can be made spicy or mild or with or without veggies. Basically, this recipe can be done according to the likes/dislikes of your picky eater.
You’ll Need:
Tortillas – Wheat or Corn
1 can of chickpeas
1 stalk celery
1/3 cup hot sauce (we like Franks)
pinch of salt
1/2 onion minced
2 cloves garlic minced
2 TBS scallions
Instructions:
Heat frying pan with 2 TBS water and add onion and garlic – saute until translucent about 2 minutes. While this is cooking mash the drained chickpeas in a bowl until you have no full chickpeas but not a paste either – slightly chunky. Add chickpeas, celery, scallions, and hot sauce and saute for another 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
Wipeout your frying pan and give a light spray of oil. Fill one tortilla with the filling and place in a frying pan on medium heat. Top with a second tortilla and turn after a minute or two – until the tortilla touching the pan becomes crispy. Then flip and do the same with the top tortilla.
Enjoy with some vegan sour cream or salsa.
Stir Fry Noodles
Everyone loves noodles! This recipe is so easy to change up depending on your picky eater’s preference. Any veggies will do and the sauce can be made spicy or sweeter as well. So good you’ll be coming back for more! Here is a link to the best healthy ramen click here.
You’ll Need:
4 Squares of Millet/Brown Rice Ramen Noodles
1/4 cup scallions
1/4 soy sauce or tamari
2 TBS Sunbutter or other nut butter
2 TBS Sriracha or other hot sauce (optional)
2 TBS rice vinegar or red wine vinegar
1 TBS honey or maple syrup
1 cup broccoli or other green veggies – (other suggestions – snap peas, asparagus, bok choi)
1 cup spinach
1/2 cup shredded carrots
2 TBS minced garlic
1/2 onion chopped
Instructions:
Pour boiling water over noodles and set aside
In a frying pan saute onion and garlic in water until translucent on medium-high heat. Add water by the TBS as needed to keep from burning. Add 1/2 cup of veggies – spinach and broccoli and cover to steam. Steam until fork tender.
Make the sauce – add Sunbutter/nut butter, vinegar, soy sauce, and hot sauce in a bowl and stir until smooth.
Check to make sure noodles are tender.
Add noodles and sauce to the frying pan and mix until everything is coated.
Enjoy!
Burrito Bowls/Tacos
Another recipe that can be made to fit any picky eater’s preferences. I always have corn, beans, greens, avocado, rice. The other ingredients can be changed based on likes and what you have in the house.
You’ll Need:
1 cup white or brown rice
1/2 cup black beans drained
1/2 cup corn
1 cup greens (spinach, kale, mixed greens, remained, etc – whatever you have available)
1/4 black olives
1/2 chopped bell pepper
1/2 avocado sliced
Sometimes I have it with “chicken” nuggets or some fake taco meat.
Taco shells or tortillas
Vegan ranch or sour cream optional – I would use one of these if I didn’t have avocado – both may be too much fat
Salsa as dressing
Instructions:
Depending on your picky eater, you can do these ingredients in a taco shell or wrap them into a burrito. Burrito bowl is my favorite and the best way to make it is – add all ingredients to a bowl! It’s that easy. Sometimes I like to heat up the beans/rice/corn and then add the other cold ingredients.
Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal
Again, use what makes your picky eater happy and what you have on hand. A must is a banana – that’s really it. It’s the sweetener. The frozen cherries really put this over the top with some chocolate chips. The best frozen cherries I’ve found are from trader joes. I always buy about 4 bags when I go to stock up.
You’ll Need:
1/3 cup instant oats
1 banana smashed
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup frozen fruit – I am on a frozen cherry kick right now
1/4 nuts OR 1/4 cup chocolate chips (optional)
1/4 plant milk
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cocoa powder (optional)
Instructions:
Mash banana into bowl, add oatmeal, and water. Microwave for 90 seconds. Add other ingredients as you like and stir together.
Enjoy!
This post was all about plant based recipes for picky eaters.
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