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Dairy-Free and Delicious – Recipes to Get You Started

Roll up, roll up for these fantastic savoury pancakes! Quick, very tasty and easy. Just get everything prepared and they almost cook themselves! The wraps look lovely, and are posh enough to impress visitors.

Vegetable Pancakes
Serves 2

20 minutes: 15 minutes preparation, 5 minutes cooking time.

Sauce
¼ cup soya sauce such as Kikkoman, Sanchi or Clearspring
¼ cup water
2 tbsp rice vinegar or dry sherry
2 tsp brown sugar, or date or maple syrup
2 tsp cornflour, dissolved in ¼ cup cold water

Pancakes and filling
4 tortillas
2 tsp oil (not olive)
2 tsp fresh green chillies, finely chopped (remove ALL seeds unless you love very hot food!)
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tbsp Chinese black bean sauce (available from most supermarkets and good food shops). Hoisin sauce is also good
2 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry
2 large red peppers, diced
1 very large head (or equivalent) of broccoli:
·        Dice stems and keep them separate
·        Chop rest into florets (heads)
170g/6oz firm tofu, cubed

1. If using oven to heat up tortillas, turn it on to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4 while you prepare the veg etc.
2. Combine sauce ingredients: place soya sauce, water, rice vinegar/sherry, brown sugar/syrup and dissolved cornflour in a small bowl and set aside.
3. Choose your tortilla heating method!
   1. Stack tortillas together, wrap and carefully seal them in tinfoil, then bake in warm oven for about 5-10 minutes until heated through
      or
   2. Wrap in a paper towel and heat in microwave for a minute or so on medium heat, making sure you don’t cook them too long as they’ll be chewy.
4. Meanwhile, heat oil in wok or large frying pan.
5. Add chillies and garlic and stir-fry for one minute.
6. Add black bean sauce.
7. Add rice wine/sherry and when thoroughly hot, stir in peppers and broccoli stems.
8. Stir-fry for another minute then add broccoli florets, tofu cubes and ¼ cup water.
9. Cover and let steam for about 2 minutes, until broccoli is just tender.
10. Pour in soya sauce mixture and stir-fry until sauce begins to thicken and bubble, then remove from heat.
11. To serve, place one warm tortilla at a time on a flat surface, put ¼ of filling on the half closest to you and roll up!

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