The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Filipino Macaroni Salad

The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Filipino Macaroni Salad

Compared to the Italian, Mediterranean, and other versions, Filipino Macaroni Salad is the sweeter and heartier counterpart. If it’s up to me, I would eat a whole bowl as entree and dessert (and I have).

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The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Filipino Chicharon

The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Filipino Chicharon

Vegan Filipino Chicharon is a fun little snack that has dried shiitake mushrooms coated in rice flour and sweet rice flour then deep-fried. Another way to make it is by deep-frying dried yuba skin.

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The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Kare-Kare (Filipino Peanut Stew)

The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Kare-Kare (Filipino Peanut Stew)

Kare-kare is a classic and beloved Filipino stew made of meat and vegetables in thick and creamy peanut sauce, traditionally with shrimp paste (bagoong) and rice on the side. Filipinos often reserve this dish for big parties like town fiestas, christenings, even weddings. It’s a dish that’s both celebratory and celebrated.

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The Happy Home Cook: Vegetable Lumpiang Shanghai

The Happy Home Cook: Vegetable Lumpiang Shanghai

Could you veganize pork lumpia without tofu, mushroom, or gluten?

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The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Longganisa

The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Longganisa

Longganisa is derived from the Spanish version, Longaniza. Why the Spanish connection? Spain has colonized the Philippines for about 500 years and has left its deep culinary influence in Filipino Food.

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The Happy Home Cook: Minatamis na Saging (Sweetened Saba Bananas)

The Happy Home Cook: Minatamis na Saging (Sweetened Saba Bananas)

Filipinos make sweetened saba bananas at home all the time; it’s more of a beloved homemade dish than a restaurant special.

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The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Calamari

The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Calamari

This Vegan Calamari is made out of king trumpet mushroom coated in batter and deep fried until crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside.

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The Happy Home Cook: Filipino Crab Cake Omelette

The Happy Home Cook: Filipino Crab Cake Omelette

Neither just crab cakes nor just crab omelettes, Filipino crab cake omelette or tortang alimasag is the best of both worlds plus more. Now, it can be veganized, too.

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The Happy Home Cook: Low Carb, Low Sugar Fried Rice

The Happy Home Cook: Low Carb, Low Sugar Fried Rice

A hearty and healthy alternative for fried rice.

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The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Mechado

The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Mechado

Astig Vegan's Richgail Enriquez takes on the popular Filipino dish, Mechado, and provides a vegan alternative.

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