Secret to cooking vegetarian food for the 7th lunar month quickly and easily

5 easy-to-cook vegetarian meals for busy housewives

I followed my mother's instructions and on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, I made a vegetarian meal with 5 dishes to offer because the 7th lunar month is the month of filial piety and also the month of wandering souls. The vegetarian meal has many good meanings, wishing for my body and mind and my family to be peaceful and serene.

With the intention of offering gifts, my family always cooks simple vegetarian dishes so that when receiving gifts, the whole family can eat dishes that are less processed and less greasy.

A simple vegetarian offering tray should have all 5 dishes representing the five elements, with sticky rice and sweet soup being indispensable. The remaining dishes should be braised, stir-fried, souped or boiled to make up the 5 dishes.

Unlike before, my mother was a farmer so the time to prepare the ceremony was more leisurely and comfortable. In my memory, every full moon ceremony at home was like having a feast, that my mother would be in the kitchen stirring and cooking, steaming sticky rice with smoke wafting through the rainy weather of July, the stove burning with red coals.

Of course it's more convenient for me to cook now, but because I still have work, I can only manage to prepare the offering tray in half a day so I can get to work on time.

Instead of sticky rice, I will cook sticky rice. Soak sticky rice and mung beans for 1 hour before putting them in the rice cooker, add coconut milk and a little salt until it covers the rice, then the sticky rice will be cooked and soft like sticky rice cooked in a steamer. On full moon days, when I feel like cooking sweet rice balls, I always prepare the shape of the sweet rice balls in advance so that on the day I just need to boil sugar water and drop the balls in to cook until done, or more simply, just simmer the sweet rice balls and eat them with thick coconut milk.

For braised dishes, I change the style of braised mushrooms with tofu or sometimes braised mushrooms with vegetables, marinating them with soy sauce and simmering them on the stove. Mushrooms are very nutritious, so braised dishes are delicious and go well with rice.

For me, eating vegetarian and cooking vegetarian food is actually very simple and easy to cook. Just remove the meat from the meat dish and it will be vegetarian. Like sour soup, just add tomatoes, pineapple, tamarind, then add bean sprouts, onions, and tofu to make a vegetarian sour soup. Or vegetable soup is cooked with mushrooms and vegetables, and the soup is very sweet. I do not prioritize vegetarian dishes that imitate meat, because every time I eat vegetarian food, I consider it as a body detox.

When cooking vegetarian food, tofu is probably a dish that should not be missed because it is both vegetarian and familiar, easy to prepare and easy to eat. White tofu can be made into many dishes, but the simplest is still to spray a layer of cooking oil and put it in an air fryer to make golden fried tofu with soy sauce.

Some easy-to-make vegetarian dishes, suggestions for housewives so that they can both prepare the full moon offering tray and take care of personal and family work.

Some easy to cook vegetarian dishes

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