In the mood for a little soul food? But you're a vegetarian? No problem.
- Rays Vegan Soul, 169 N. MLK St. North
- Open Friday (5 pm -10 pm) through Sunday (11 a.m. — 6 p.m.)
- Rays Vegan Soul
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Head down to Rays Vegan Soul in St. Petersburg. For this visit, Chef Ray Milton cooked up a vegan sausage dish with mac and cheese and collard greens on the side.
Who wants to try something a little different and make a vegan sausage dish?
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Milton's dish combines mushrooms, peppers, carrots with walnuts ground up in a food processor. The mixtures, with sea salt, cayenne pepper and balsamic vinegar, is used to make the sausage patties — which are baked for about 20 minutes and served up on a platter.
"I think all good food that’s from the earth and that’s natural is soul food," said Milton.
VEGAN SAUSAGE
Ingredients
- 3 cups Walnuts or cooked green lentils, or other cooked bean
- 1 cup of portobello mushrooms
- 1 cup sundried tomatoes (that have been soaked at least 2 hours)
- 1 cup fresh parsley
- ½ tsp dried oregano
- ½ tsp ground fennel
- ½ red onion rough chop
- 3 carrots rough chop
- ½ red bell pepper rough chop
- Pinch of Sea salt and Cayenne Pepper to taste
Directions: In food processor pulse walnuts, then add sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms, parsley, onion, carrots, bell pepper, sea salt, cayenne pepper and pulse until well mixed.
On a lined baking sheet make your patties you can pan fry or bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.
If doing walnuts you can place in a dehydrator and allow to dry for approximately five hours.