Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients
Crust for 1 pie
2 cups canned pumpkin
1 cup rice milk
3/4 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice

Method

• Prepare Crust
• Preheat oven to 425F
• Mix the rest of the ingredients, pour into crust
• Bake for 10 minutes, lower temperature to 350F and bake for 50 minutes
• Cool, transfer for fridge and let set for 24 hours.
  
  
  

Lebanese Pizza (Lahm bi Ajeen)

Ingredients
2 garlic cloves
1 medium onion, quartered
1 small green pepper, seeded and quartered (optional)
1 lb sirloin ground beef (93% lean)
1 (6 oz) can tomato paste
1 (14 1/2 oz) can diced tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
8 whole wheat tortillas

Method

• Put all ingredients in food processor except the tortillas.
• Process until it is all chopped and well mixed.
• Preheat oven to 400F
• Spread the mix on tortillas and bake for 8 to 10 minutes
  

White Sausage Lasagna

Ingredients

Bechamel Sauce
2 T butter
2 T all-purpose flour
2 cups rice milk
1/3 cup raw cashew
1/2 cup water

Filling
1 lb italian turkey sausage
3 zucchinis diced small

Seasoning
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 Tb nutritional yeast
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp italian seasoning

Lasagna
12 no-boil lasagna noodles
1 Tb nutritional yeast

Method

Bechamel Sauce

• In a blender, mix rice milk (preferrably home-made), cashew, and water. Blend on high until no chunks remain.
• In a saucepan, melt the butter, add flour and mix for 1 minute (be careful not to burn it), the roux should remain white.
• Add the roux to the blender and mix with the rest of the ingredients.
• Pour the mix back to the saucepan and stir over medium-high heat, until it boils and thickens.
• Remove from heat, add all the seasoning ingredients and set aside.

Filling

• In a nonstick pan, brown the sausage and zucchini, crumbling the sausage small. Once it is fully cooked, set aside to assemble.

Assemble

• Preheat oven to 350F
• Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray.
• Spread 1/2 cup of the bechamel sauce at the bottom to barely cover it.
• Layer 4 lasagna noodles, top with a little less than half the sausage mixture, 1/3 of the remaining bechamel sauce and sprinkle with 1 tsp of nutritional yeast.
• Repeat until the last layer of lasagna noodles. Top with the rest of the sausage mix and sauce.
• Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour.