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INDIAN-SPICED APPLE TARTS Cook on medium heat, stirring Place 1 tablespoon of filling each Combine the powdered sugar, Developed by Natalia Stasenko until the sugar is caramelized and on half of the squares, leaving ½ teaspoon spice mix, melted apples are easy to break with a space to seal the edges. Brush vegan butter and soy milk to Pastry wooden spoon. Let cool slightly. the edges with water and place make icing. Ice tarts once 2 cups whole-wheat flour, the remaining squares on the they are cooled. Serves 6. plus extra for dusting Prepare the crust. Sift the flour and salt into a bowl. Cut in the top of the filling. Press edges ¼ teaspoons salt vegan butter using a fork or pastry gently with your fingers and Natalia Stasenko, MS, RD, CDN, is 2 ⁄3 cup cold vegan “butter,” cubed cutter until the mixture resembles seal carefully with a fork; do the founder of Tribeca Nutrition in 3 tablespoons cold water breadcrumbs. Add the cold water not break the pastry. Bake for New York. She is a Stone and knead the dough until a ball 25 minutes, or until slightly Soup blogger and author of Filling brown. Let cool on a cooling rack. tribecanutrition .com 1 pound Granny Smith apples, forms. (Add more water if the dough peeled and chopped into does not stick together.) Dust the 1 ⁄3-inch cubes working surface with flour. 2 tablespoons sugar Flatten the dough ball into a disk, 1 ⁄2 teaspoon each of ground cover it with wax paper or plastic cinnamon, ground cardamom film and roll out into a square 1 and ground ginger, combined approximately ⁄8-inch thick. Cut (1 teaspoon of the mix is for the the dough into twelve 3 x 3-inch ½ filling, teaspoon is for the squares. icing) 2 tablespoons water Icing 1 cup powdered sugar ½ teaspoon spice mix ½ tablespoon vegan “butter,” melted 1 tablespoon soy milk Preheat oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Prepare the filling by placing chopped apples, sugar, 1 teaspoon spice mix and water in a pan.

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VEGAN JELLO WITH LONGAN, JACKFRUIT AND COCONUT MILK Developed by Tram Le tablespoons sugar. Bring to a *To make agar agar flakes, boil, whisking every 30 seconds take 1 agar agar sheet, 2 cups coconut water to dissolve the flakes. After 5 crumble, and process 2 ⁄3 cup agar agar flakes* minutes, pour into an 8 x 8-inch through a spice grinder (or 5 tablespoons sugar, divided square baking pan. Sprinkle food processor) until you have 2 tablespoons pomegranate pomegranate seeds evenly into coarsely ground flakes. seeds the jello mixture. Refrigerate for 1 20-ounce can longan 1 hour. Tram Le, MS, RD, is based in (or lychee), packed in syrup, Combine the coconut milk with Annapolis, Md. She is a Stone drained 2 tablespoons sugar in a small Soup blogger and author of 1 20-ounce can jackfruit, saucepan over medium heat. nutritiontokitchen.com. packed in syrup, drained and Heat until simmering, then cool sliced into ½-inch pieces and refrigerate. To make the fruit 1 14-ounce can light coconut salad, cut the vegan jello into milk 1-inch squares, gently combine Combine and refrigerate longan with the longan and jackfruit, and sliced jackfruit. Add coconut and pour 2 to 3 tablespoons of water to a small saucepan over coconut milk over each 1-cup medium-high heat, whisking serving. Serves 6. in the agar agar flakes and 3

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