Darshana Thacker Wendel
Darshana Thacker Wendel is a whole-food, plant-based chef and former culinary projects manager for Forks Over Knives. A graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute, she is the author of Forks Over Knives: Flavor! She created the recipes for Forks Over Knives Family and was a lead recipe contributor to the New York Times bestseller The Forks Over Knives Plan. Her recipes have been published in The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook, Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health, and LA Yoga magazine online. Visit DarshanasKitchen.com and follow her on Instagram for more.
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Get ready for a commitment to make this dish. Pad about an additional 2.5 hours to the time and then another .5 hr to wash up. The end result is quite good and unique ~ I wouldn’t say it’s fabulous. I had a hard time getting the “dough” to stay together to make a disk and roll around the cheese mixture. After making half of it, I was exhausted, so I put 1/2 of the remaining green mixture s in the bottom of a casserole, the remaining cheese, and the rest of the greens on top. It’s frozen right now, because, you know, cooking for one, it’s hard to eat on the same thing again and again. Btw, that cheese is really unique and yummy. I could see it being a layer in a lasagna.
What could be used as a substitute for almond flour? (Due to nut allergy).
Thank you
Hi Sally,
We reached out to the recipe creator about substitutions and these are her thoughts: “While I have not tried it, I think extra firm tofu, that has been pressed well to remove moisture, could work in place onf the almond flour. Other ingredients I would try are bread crumbs, gluten free bread crumbs, or ground-up rice puffs cereal.” We hope this helps, and let us know how it goes!
These are delicious! They are definitely a bit time-consuming to make but well worth the effort as an occasional treat (I think they will be a regular item on our St. Patrick’s Day menu).
Why don’t your recipes have nutrient values?
That would be so helpful!!!!!!