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Soy-Free Vegan Meals: A Practical Dinner
Use beans, lentils, seeds and grains to make a soy-free vegan bowl while checking packaged sauces for soy ingredients.
Quick answer
A soy-free vegan dinner can center on chickpeas or lentils rather than tofu. Build a quinoa, roasted-vegetable and chickpea bowl, and use lemon-tahini dressing instead of soy sauce.
What you need
- For two bowls, use 1 can chickpeas, 1 cup dry quinoa, 2 cups vegetables, 2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds and tahini with lemon.
- Check vegetable broth, dressings and spice blends if you must avoid soy for an allergy.
How to make it work
- Cook quinoa. Roast vegetables and chickpeas at 425°F until the vegetables are tender and the chickpeas lightly browned.
- Whisk tahini with lemon and water; arrange the bowl and scatter pumpkin seeds on top.
Checks and useful changes
- Soy allergy management is stricter than a preference: read every current label and discuss individual risks with an allergy clinician.
- If also gluten-free, choose a suitable grain and verify packaged ingredients rather than assuming soy-free means gluten-free.