recipes for prana

Welcome to the recipes for prana page. Here you’ll find simple, super-tasty, wholesome vegan yogi recipes for home cooking. Find out more about the yogic diet here

Nut and Seed Chonks

I served this sweet treat on the Yoga and Digestive Health afternoon mini-retreat. The meal over all had 40+ plant ingredients: latest advice is eat 30 different plant species a …

vegan brownies

I’m not certain this is the complete holy grail of vegan brownie (soooo many options), but it’s certainly very popular on retreats here. I like the slightly grainy chia, but …

Old-fashioned? Unusual? Yummy, though. I don’t know what inspired a wondering/yearning for seed cake but a bit of research and a couple of experiments yielded this. Plus a bit of …

Fennel and orange salad

Super simple but packed with Mediterranean sunshine and Italian tastes. In February, when it’s citrus season from Sicily, I really love this with ‘blush’ or as they used to be …

green lentil soup

Green lentils are a quick and non-soak easy way to get your pulses in. They take about 40 minutes to cook*. But in this soup I feel the star is …

Applesauce Pound Cake

  This is a delicious cake to slice and have with a cuppa. The mid morning break for the apple pressing team was lovely. The apple sauce is the binding …

Baked Apples

I’ve cooked these and posted about them on facebook and EVERYONE comments, ‘my mum used to make these’ (which makes me think perhaps that the people I know are rather …

chocolate chia pudding

This is a simple but super nutritious and tasty pudding. A pudding of a pudding but quite a grown up taste. Chia is full of minerals and protein, plus is …

coconut chutney

On the popular Eat like a Yogi and Eat for your Dosha cooking workshops this is a favourite to prepare as we make our feast. Goes great with chana dhal …

tiffin

Very sweet and very fattening, but sometimes needs must! Plus you can cut it into 16 pieces which are judicious morsel sized, therefore ok. Ingredients serves 5-6 150g vegan ‘butter’ cubed, …

oat and banana pancakes

This is a  quick and yummy weekend breakfast that you could make lots of toppings for and people choose what they make. Here you can see them made on a …

Apple chutney

Previously a secret only revealed to people attending the vegan cooking workshop here, this is a tangy chutney that helps out in an apple glut and can be frozen. It …

This is a quick, easy and super proteinaceous pancake that goes a long way towards meeting the pancake yearning, and carb craving but without being made of wheat or having …

bean pate

This is not the most glamourous dish. It is brown, like vegan food of the 1970s, as noted in the brilliant future history mockumentary Carnage by Simon Amstell. However, it …

Soda Bread

This makes an easy and traditional yeast-free bread. It takes 5 minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to cook, making a loaf crusty on the outside and crumbly soft on …