Do you really just cook with animal fats? Even though I wasn’t growing up vegan, it was more the norm around here to cook with vegetable oils. For this dish probably oliveoil. I would say that most people use it even for the meat based variant.
Well I was implying that animal fat is the majority of the fat for this dish (it is). If you just add more olive oil it will be greasy and not taste good.
That’s why I’m asking. You can’t just increase the olive oil. So how do you make it taste good?
While I'm not a vegan, just an enthusiastic home cook...why do you need to add an excessive amount of oil at all? As you said, it already has olive oil. Added an animal fat will just make it greasy too.
Oil is not a flavour, it's a carrier of flavour. All the flavour is coming from the herbs and spices, and the other ingredients themselves. The oil just absorbs these flavours to carry it throughout the dish.
You can use an ingredient that soaks up the olive oil. Eggplant and mushrooms will do that, and both will give it more body, while mushrooms add to the umami quality.
Depending on how blasphemous you want to get, you can add soaked, ground up cashews or avocado to add in drier sources of plant fat. Heck, what about artichoke hearts?
Oh, and of course, nowadays there’s meat substitutes like Impossible/Beyond/what have you, which are plenty fatty and still hold up to getting fried.
What am I to say? It IS the real thing. Food is an art and is what you make of it.
Came from r/all. So in no means a vegan myself but I get the appeal. High carb plant based diet is great for cycling running and weight loss. That’s why I eat low animal products in summer on my cut.
I’m on my bulk now and I’ve been eating meat, but ultimately I hate this phase, because lifting is boring staring at the same 4 walls of my cheap home gym. Can’t wait for summer so I can be a vegan that cycles 100km a day on a dietary cut. Around the beautiful hills of Adelaide.
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