Side Dish Archives - Stacey Homemaker

Dairy-Free Cashew Cream Broccoli Salad

May 21, 2019 By Stacey Homemaker 7 Comments

This easy vegan broccoli salad (no mayo!) is super creamy, crunchy, and so delicious! It’s the perfect side dish to bring to picnics, cookouts, or parties! Vegan and gluten-free.

*This post was originally posted on 9/5/16 but I updated it with better recipe instructions on 5/21/19.

One of our favorite places to go out for a quick, healthy vegan dinner is Sweet Tomatoes. We love the salad bar, soups, and baked sweet potatoes! Have you tried the broccoli salad that they have on the bar? We used to love it before we were vegan!

I wanted to recreate the creamy broccoli salad at home without using the mayo, sugar, and vegetable oil that is in the Sweet Tomatoes version. It turned out so delicious and it’s so easy to make! You’re going to love the creamy cashew sauce, crunchy broccoli, and all the toppings, it’s sooo tasty.

I used creamy cashew sauce instead of mayo like most other recipes for broccoli salad call for. It’s just as creamy and flavorful, and in my opinion, it tastes even better!

It’s the best vegan broccoli side dish to serve with vegetable burgers, sandwiches, or roasted veggie wraps. It’s also great to bring to summer picnics (because you don’t have to worry about the mayo going bad while it’s unrefrigerated), BBQ’s, and family events.

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Garlic Roasted Radishes Recipe (Oil-Free)

May 10, 2019 By Stacey Homemaker 2 Comments

These savory rosemary garlic roasted radishes are butter and oil-free but they are melt in your mouth delicious! It’s the best low-carb side dish! Vegan + gluten-free.

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I feel like roasted radishes are a well-kept secret that most people don’t know about! I avoided eating radishes for most of my life because I didn’t like their sharp bite. The flavor was just too overwhelming for me, even if they were sliced paper thin in a salad.

Last year, I was searching for a low-carb side dish to make for our vegan Thanksgiving dinner (here are more low-carb vegan recipes if you need inspiration) and I watched a cooking show where they made oven roasted radishes and said that they tasted like roasted potatoes. Say whatttt?!

Low and behold, it’s true! Once roasted, the radishes get soft and sweet on the inside and they completely lose their strong bite. You can read more about radish nutrition, here.

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Lemon Garlic Oven Roasted Asparagus

March 16, 2019 By Stacey Homemaker Leave a Comment

Once you try this lemon garlic oven roasted asparagus you’ll never want to eat asparagus any other way! The lemon, fresh garlic, & vegan parmesan gives it so much flavor! Vegan & gluten-free.

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I was super excited when I found overflowing bunches of organic purple-tipped asparagus at my local market for only $3.99 yesterday! That’s a fantastic price! I had been so happy to find organic honeybells, blueberries, and papaya that I had forgotten that spring is also asparagus season! Technically, April is prime time for asparagus so I’ll definitely be making this lemon garlic oven roasted asparagus a lot over the next few weeks. I hope you will be too!

I can promise you that you’re not going to find a more flavorful roasted asparagus recipe than this one. I used all of my favorite flavors: fresh garlic, lemon, thyme, and vegan parmesan cheese to just blow this recipe out of the water. It’s ridiculously delicious and easy to make. In addition to being super tasty, this easy asparagus recipe is also low-carb and vegan keto friendly. Here are more low-carb vegan recipes and vegan keto recipes if you need more inspiration!

A big punch of the flavor comes from using fresh garlic cloves and not just dried garlic powder. I use garlic powder a lot when I cook but some recipes are just better with fresh garlic. There’s definitely a trick to roasting asparagus with fresh garlic though. If you add the garlic too early or if it’s cooked at too high a temperature it will burn and the flavor of the dish will be ruined. Soooo how do you get around that problem but still get to enjoy the flavors of fresh roasted garlic with your lemon parmesan asparagus? Keep reading to find out!

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Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Garlic

February 19, 2019 By Stacey Homemaker Leave a Comment

Maple dijon roasted brussel sprouts with garlic recipe are going to be your new favorite! These brussel sprouts are super tender, they’re coated in the most flavorful tangy sauce, and they have perfectly crispy edges! Vegan and gluten-free.

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When I was a kid, I hated roasted brussel sprouts more than any other vegetable. I swore them off until my late twenties until I was bribed to taste one again. Was is the best food that I’d ever tasted? No, but it tasted a lot better than what I remembered brussel sprouts tasting like (sorry, mom!). I pride myself on being really open to new foods and loving all vegetables so this encouraged me to start testing different brussel sprout recipes at home.

Roasted brussel sprouts with parmesan that are coated in maple dijon garlic sauce are my all time favorite way to eat these tasty little cabbages. If you think that you’re not a fan of brussel sprouts then I encourage you to try this recipe and see how you feel after the first bite. I’m pretty confident that your opinion will change! The maple dijon garlic sauce is super tangy and loaded with flavor! I love how the sauce caramelizes on the edges of the brussel sprouts and, if I’m being honest, it just tastes really freaking delicious.

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