Delectable Planet is a place where you can get delicious recipes that taste good and are good for everyone. Why? Because we believe that by eating more plant-based foods we use far less resources, lower our carbon foot print and support food for more people. 

Delectable Planet has been designed to provide you with a simple approach to making your own meals that consist of all plant-based ingredients. Whether you would like to do your part to help the planet, make a life style change or just learn more about animal-free food options, we hope you find our recipes and “how-to” instructions helpful. Using a short instructional video with every recipe, makes learning how to cook a plant-based diet easy and entertaining. Plus the nutritional tidbits that are provided with many videos will help you learn more about how to reach your healthy lifestyle goals.

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Our mission is to provide great tasting healthy meals for a sustainable planet that are relatively easy to prepare. There are many great features with our system for you to get to know.

Every recipe is stored in a data base with many keywords to help you find a solution to tonight’s dinner, tomorrow’s party or a fun dessert. You can print out the recipes, share them with a friend via email, watch the video to get tips on how to prepare or simply let them serve as an idea to create your own. We encourage you to take a few moments to experiment with all the features on the recipe page.

You can use our powerful search engine to find a recipe based upon an ingredient or search using our many different categories from ethnic influence to difficulty. 

The recipes are based on using wholesome and healthy ingredients. We avoid (except for some desserts) refined ingredients and of course all animal based ingredients. If you have suggestions or comments we would love to hear from you.

Sometimes it's just nice to have the week's main dishes planned out so that you don't have to think too much about making dinner. Delectable Planet can help with the menu planning and recipes and we'll also give you tips and tricks to make it happen. All of the recipes come with short videos so you can watch as you cook (laptop or iPad on the kitchen counter anyone?). The weeks' menu is based on black beans. Each recipes serves 4-8 people - so you will either have left-overs for lunch the next day or you may need to increase the amount of beans you start with. The flavor theme is Tex-Mex but there's also dessert! So if you want to jump ahead and make dessert on Tuesday, go for it. First things first, though...use the following Shopping List to get what you need and then it's time to cook some beans!

Plant-Based Holiday Feast Ideas

Okay, okay, it's holiday season and it's time to start thinking about what you want to feed to your family and friends! Need some ideas for your festive feast? Do we have some options for you! We've put together several menu ideas to help you get started. The Sei-Turkey Roast can be made ahead of time and either kept in  the fridge or freezer. If you don't have any cooked brown rice on hand, make that first. Once the rice is cooked, the preparation time is only about 20  minutes and it takes 1 1/2 hours to bake. You'll be surprised how filling it is (gluten is one of the highest protein options  available). Add some mashed potatoes, gravy, a green vegetable and maybe some squash or sweet potatoes and you have a  well-rounded meal. For dessert try a dairy-free pumpkin pie, a cherry pie, or candied pears.

If you need to stay away from gluten then bake up some tofu with a savory marinade.

Holiday Feast Option #1
Sei-Turkey Roast
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Simple Brown Gravy
Steamed Brussels Sprouts
Pumpkin Pie or Custard

Mid-Winter Feast Option #2
Sei-Turkey Roast
Parsnip Mashed Potatoes
Mushroom Gravy
Broccoli or Cauliflower with Sesame Salt
Wholesome Cherry Pie

Gluten-Free Feast Option #3
Baked Tofu
Stuffed Acorn Squash...and "Cheeze" sauce
Green Beans with Roasted Garlic and Mushrooms
Candied Ginger Pears

A tossed green salad compliments all of these Feasts and, so would some whole wheat bread or rolls...

How to Make Whole Wheat Rolls
Use the How to Make Whole Wheat Bread recipe and make this alteration:
Instead of putting the dough into bread pans for the last rise, cut the dough into small pieces and roll into 2-3 inch balls (make sure the dough is pinched tight at the seam). Lightly oil a cookie sheet and set the rolls on to rise (until double, 30-40 minutes). Bake in a 375 degree oven for 20-25 minutes.

Happy Holidays!
Delectable Planet