Gluten Free Vegan Potato Recipes and Potassium Tips

Think you don’t have time to cook potatoes? These flavorful gluten free vegan potato recipes will make you think again. Potatoes are a tasty source of amazing amounts of nutrition and outrank bananas, broccoli and spinach in potassium content. Potassium is crucial in balancing water, sodium and other minerals and most people don’t get enough in their diet. Potatoes are an easily accessible and highly desirable source of potassium, which is helpful in addressing high blood pressure, kidney disorders and cardiovascular disease. Just ask your doctor. Then take two bites or more of these gluten free vegan potato recipes and call us in the morning.

People living with celiac disease are at particular risk for potassium deficiency, due to losses from celiac disease related symptoms, which keep you busy in the bathroom awhile and leave you dehydrated. Potatoes are a big help in this case, as they pack a whopping 845mg of potassium per medium potato.

Kids can be picky eaters and kids with autism can strongly prefer certain foods over variety. This leaves both groups in a situation common to most adult Americans – taking in too much sodium and not enough potassium, a situation which can contribute to health risks. It also leaves many parents deeply concerned and puzzled about nutrition and how to balance it, given their children’s tendencies. Potassium supplements can lead to very bad problems, but potatoes generally do not. Check out these gluten free vegan potato recipes for options to fit your family.

To get more potatoes in your family’s diet, especially picky children, try starting off with the No Oil Potato Chips below. Do your kids already like apples and potatoes? Let them taste Potato & Apple Gratin and give you their opinions. Bring crowd pleasing Creamy Avocado Potato Salad or Carrot Vichyssoise (pronounced vee-she-swah, French for cold potato soup) to your next adult barbecue or picnic. No one will guess that they’re gluten free vegan potato recipes and you might even rack up a few compliments for flavor.   

Carrot Vichyssoise (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) VeggieTable

 

Creamy Avocado Potato Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) Post Punk Kitchen

Potato & Apple Gratin (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) Pledging for Change

 

Potato Curry (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) AllRecipes

No Oil Potato Chips (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) Vegan-Food.net

Be sure to visit our Recipe Index for more gluten free vegan recipes. Bon appotato!

 

Potato and Potassium Resources:

Empire State Potato Growers

 

Colorado State University Extension

Gluten Free Works

WebMD "Diet for Autism: What Works?"

 

 

 

 

Dairy Free Vegan Potato Recipes

These dairy free vegan potato recipes will bring heavenly flavors, such as Creamy Potato Salad from the Blender Girl, to the palates of your friends and family each time you share them. Are you, like Betty White, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tyra Banks, a potato chip addict? Your loyalty could easily shift to the luscious Potato Skins from Vegan Happy Hour. Go ahead. Give in to potato temptation. You know you want to…

Potatoes aren’t just an affordable delicacy. They’re a vital element in the history of mankind. Spanish mercenaries bursting into indigenous Andean huts in search of gold found these nutritious nuggets. A European battle was fought until the supply of potatoes ran out. Millions of Irish starved or left their homeland when their nationwide potato crop was struck by blight. Prepare your family for their daily battles with Potato Pancakes from Robin Robertson of VegNews.

When quoting Shakespeare to the apple of your eye, serve them a side of “love apples,” also known as potatoes. Even as the Bard was penning romance and comedy, potatoes were held in high esteem as aphrodisiacs. Might we suggest Eggplant, Potato & Pepper Casserole from the pages of Bon Appetit via Epicurious and Yummly, to spice up your next tryst?

Last, but not least, if you prefer your potatoes a little on the Florentine side or need a bit more iron in your diet, be sure to bake up some Potato Spinach Casserole from Ashley Adams at About.com.  You’ll be like the potato who crossed the road and grab the fork ahead.

 

Creamy Potato Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) The Blender Girl

Eggplant, Potato & Pepper Casserole (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) Bon Appetit/Epicurious/Yummly

 

Potato Spinach Casserole (DF, SF, K, V, VG) Ashley Adams/About.com

Potato Skins (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) Vegan Happy Hour

Potato Pancakes (DF, SF, K, V, VG) Robin Robertson/VegNews

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more dairy free vegan potato recipes. Bon apotato! ;-)

Potato Resources:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/potato.html

http://www.thehotpotato.com/english/potato_facts.htm

http://nppga.org/consumers/funfacts.php

http://www.basicjokes.com/djoke.php?id=61

Meatless Monday: Vegan Potato Recipes

Looking for delicious, nutritious vegan potato recipes for Meatless Monday? Get ready to rock, because I found some super spud flavors in this week’s blast through the blogosphere. First, let’s take a moment to honor this truly amazing vegetable that has given us so much and asks so little in return.

The nutritional powerhouse we think of as a side dish has been and continues to be a key to human survival. For the mountain-dwelling Incas in 200 BC, potatoes survived the harsh climate better than wheat, rice or corn. Sailors stocked them in their berths for hundreds of years as a preventive for their occupational hazard of scurvy, caused by a lack of Vitamin C. Alaskan miners used their precious gold to pay for them back in 1897.

In today’s economy, fresh potatoes prepared at home have the power to sustain families struggling to make ends meet. Potatoes can feed 10 people per crop acre. Despite their water content, they consume less water than corn, rice or wheat. That's good news in times of increasingly severe droughts. In 1995, NASA proved potatoes even grow well in zero gravity conditions in outer space.

Just one medium baked or boiled potato provides half the RDA of Vitamin C and significant amounts of numerous other vitamins and minerals, as well as fiber found in the skin.

 

The Vitamin C content in potatoes alone is critical. It strengthens cell and blood vessel walls, boosts immunity, converts stored fat into energy and contributes to the health of teeth and gums, just for starters. But you don’t really taste it in potatoes. Nor would you guess that they’re 80% water, which, along with the beneficial carbohydrates and fiber in the skin, gives you that full, satisfied feeling.

 

So grab a sack of potatoes and let’s get cooking with these Meatless Monday Vegan Potato Recipes!

Indian Potato Cakes (DF, SF, K, V, VG) India Snacks

Cilantro Red Potato Salad Wrap (*A, DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) Kathy Patalsky/Babble
*Contains alcohol via the wine in Dijon mustard. Read labels carefully and make substitutions as needed. Remember that Honey Mustard is not vegan.

BBQ Potatoes (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) Vegan Cooking

Potatoes “Au Gratin” Casserole (DF, SF, K, V, VG) Jolinda Hackett & Lorena Novak Bull, Net Places Vegan Recipes

Potato Gatto (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) Fat Free Vegan

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Meatless Monday vegan potato recipes. Bon appetit!

 

 

 

Potato Information Resources:

http://www.foodreference.com/html/fpotatoes.html

http://www.professorshouse.com/Food-Beverage/Topics/Vegetables/Articles/Potatoes/http://potatofacts.net/

http://potatofacts.net/

Meatless Monday: Vegan Soup Recipes

Even with Spring well on its way here in Zone 8B, a piping hot bowl of soup still hits the spot on a chilly day. The garlic and onions I just pressed into the soil are already marching around my raised beds with long, tall greens, but won’t be ready for these soups for several more weeks. Also, my seed potatoes have not yet leafed, nor have I started my bean and tomato seeds in the greenhouse. But I’m more than in the mood for these hearty Meatless Monday vegan soup recipes.

Bean and Tomato Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (BDunner/SparkPeople)

Broccoli Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Nakkeya/All Recipes)

French Onion Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Go Dairy Free)

Kale and Roasted Vegetable Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Simply Recipes/Yummly)

Lentil Dal Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegan Soup Recipes)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Meatless Monday vegan soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Sugar Free Vegan Soup Recipes

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup,” said Beethoven. Whether you’re pure of heart, naughty but nice or what teachers politely call a rascal, there are times in life when you just need some good sugar free vegan soup recipes. Be it weather, a rough day, medical issues or simply a desire, soup has been a global go-to cure for centuries.

This course of a thousand flavors can be your best friend when you’re trying to drop a few extra pounds. According to Eating Well, two recent studies have shown that diners who start with soup tend to conserve calories, thanks to the water content.

The great comedian Milton Berle liked to joke about his wife, “She loves to make soup--especially cream of yesterday. “ Contrary to Mrs. Berle, you’ll want to include these sugar free vegan soups in your menu every day. With outstanding nutritional content, soup-erior flavor profiles and simple preparation, they’re just that good.

Quick and Easy Tortilla Soup (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (The Sugar Free Vegan)

Roasted Red Pepper and Squash Soup (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (Diet, Dessert and Dogs)

Rosemary Ginger Potato Leek Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Gluten, Dairy, Sugar Free)

White Bean and Kale Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Simply Sugar and Gluten Free)

Quick Chili (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (Choose Veg)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more sugar free soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Vegan Kosher for Passover Soup Recipes for Seder

The green lifestyle and health concerns have growing numbers of Jews going vegan and/or entertaining more vegan guests at their tables. Interesting culinary challenges are cropping up as a direct result. I surfed the blogosphere for these vegan Kosher for Passover soup recipes to help out my Hebrew readers. I’m spiritual, non-religious and not of Jewish heritage. However, I’m striving to learn more about the Kosher diet in terms of veganism. If I do my job right, my readers can then relax and enjoy the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical pleasures of cooking, serving and eating according to their Kosher vegan beliefs.

A note to my non-Hebrew readers: P is an abbreviation representing “Kosher for Passover.” Kosher is a set of guidelines composed by rabbis thousands of years ago for spiritual and physical purposes. While people of Jewish heritage and faith don’t always keep Kosher throughout the year, many adhere to stricter guidelines during Passover, which occurs more than once a year. There’s also the increased complexity of living by a calendar loaded with cycles of holidays, feasts and fasts that differs significantly from the largely Christian calendar primarily used in developed Western countries.

General Kosher and Passover rules also vary between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews, who have different geological lineages and traditions. So keeping Kosher isn’t always the easiest lifestyle, but it’s worth learning a little about if you have Kosher friends or family. For them, it’s rewarding to continue traditions that have been handed down for a remarkable period of time, and some of the rules even make good health sense.

Kosher for Passover soup recipes cannot contain flour. Many vegan and vegetarian allegedly Kosher Passover soup recipes on the web contain these very things. Thus, Kosher home cooks and chefs must read potentially Passover web recipes with caution. The recipes below are free of flour, peanut butter and soy.

Most Ashkenazis are not allowed peanut butter or soy, due to their legume status. However, some Ashkenazi rabbis have accepted the consumption of tofu, which can be used in place of eggs in baked matzo balls. This is necessary, because the egg replacer commonly used by vegans and vegetarians to hold matzo balls together is not Kosher for Passover.

So browse below for your soup course and rest assured you’ll be good to go as you serve these vegan Kosher for Passover soup recipes to your family and friends. 

Vegan Mock Chicken Soup for Passover (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Big Oven)

Potato Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Mrsspeevs/Food.com)

Ghormeh Sabzi (Persian Herb Soup) (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Café Liz)

Bay Leaf Beet Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (AllRecipes/Yummly)

Roasted Tomato Basil Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Jennifer McCann/Chow)

Vegan Kosher Resources: Big Oven

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Kosher soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Gluten Free Soup Recipes

Abraham Maslow quipped, “A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.” This collection of five gluten free soup recipes is absolutely first-rate. Start your family and guests off with a culinary masterpiece of tomato, potato, okra, black bean or celery. When you sip a cup or bowl of soup, you’re actually taking a trip around the world in a spoon. The term “soup” originally hails from Sanskrit, one of the many languages of India. In that tongue, it translates to “good nutrition."
 

Nutrition is exactly what you’ll get with these hearty soups. Tomatoes and potatoes both carry a whopping 60% Recommended DailyAllowance of Vitamin D. Hippocrates wasn’t kidding around when he said, “Let thy food be thy medicine.” In the ancient Indian healing system of Ayurveda, garlic and onions are both recommended for heart disease and high blood pressure, among many other ailments. So invite your family and friends to join you in a bowl of soup. It’s big enough for everyone.  

Quick and Easy Tomato Basil Soup (Cold ala Gazpacho) (About.com) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG)

African Peanut Potato Stew (Fat Free Vegan) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG)

 

Gumbo (Simply Gluten-Free) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG)

 

Black Bean and Vegetable Kamikaze Cook Soup (Spark People) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG)  

 

Curried Cream of Celery Soup (Vegetarian Times) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) 

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more gluten free soup recipes. Bon appetit!