Recipes Using Heura

In this article we'll present you with a couple of recipe ideas using heura. Become familiar with this new product and start experimenting in the kitchen. Include these recipes in your regular diet.

Heura is a Spanish product with a flavor that’s similar to chicken, but it’s 100 percent vegan! Its main ingredients are water, soya concentrate, sunflower oil, salt, and spices such as pepper, ginger, nutmeg, and cardamom. Keep reading to discover some new recipes using heura!

Recipes with heura

Avocado toast with ratatouille and heura

This is an easy and fast recipe that you can make for one or two people. Ratatouille is a Spanish dish that consists of a vegetable stir-fry. To prepare it you can follow the next steps:

• Cut a zucchini, bell pepper, and half an onion into medium-size pieces.
• Heat a pan and add a splash of olive oil then add all the vegetables.
• When the vegetables become softer, stir the mix to prevent them from sticking to the pan. After approximately three minutes the vegetables should appear golden-brown. Add some tomatoes to enhance the color and season it with salt and pepper. When the vegetables and tomatoes are ready, remove from the heat and let it rest.
• In another pan, add some olive oil to cook the heura for five minutes.
• While the heura is cooking, toast some bread and slice an avocado. Add a little raw onion.
• Finally, add some ratatouille and heura to one slice of toast. On the other slice of toast, add the avocado and season it with olive oil, salt, and pepper, the raw onion and heura. Now your toast is ready to serve and enjoy!

Heura curry with whole-wheat empanadas.

This recipe is slightly more difficult and it has more steps to follow, but it’ll be worth it. You’ll have enough empanadas for five or six people.

For the dough:

• Mix some whole-wheat flour and spices (for the dough) in a bowl. Add the yeast.
• Heat 8 ounces of water and add a tablespoon of olive oil
• When the water is warm, add it to the bowl and stir continuously. Knead the dough until the flour has adhered together.
• Remove the dough from the bowl, put it on a table and start working on it.
• Knead for five minutes until you have a flexible, smooth and homogeneous ball.
• Put it back inside the bowl, cover it and let it rest for one hour.

For the filling:

• Cut the heura into small pieces.
• Heat some olive oil in a pan, add garlic and onion that you previously cut into small pieces. Stir.
• Once the onion has softened, add the pieces of heura and continue to cook at medium heat.
• When the heura is golden-brown, add the spices (salt, parsley, and curry). Later, sprinkle some alfalfa and pumpkin seeds on top of the mix.
• Remove from the heat.

To make the empanadas:

• Knead the dough again and cut it into 4 pieces.
• Grab a portion of the dough and extend it with a rolling pin until you have a thin layer of around 0.5 centimeters.
• Cut the dough in circular pieces with the help of a circular cutter or a glass. Place them on a tray covered with baking paper.
• Repeat this process with the rest of the dough.
• Add a little portion of the filling on the dough circles. Fold it and close the edges with the help of a fork. Repeat until you finish with the filling.
  

  

• Pre-heat your oven to 356 degrees Fahrenheit.
• With the help of a brush, brush the empanadas with some olive oil, salt, parsley, and curry.
• Put them into the oven for 30 minutes or until they’re golden.
• Remove from the oven, let them cool and they’re ready to serve!

Go ahead and prepare one, or both, of these recipes with heura! They are fast, easy and nutritious. By varying our diets we can maintain balanced diets, besides allowing us to experiment and discover new flavors!