If people had any idea of the breakdown of recipes I spend my time perusing on the internet, they’d all think I ate nothing but meat. Shouldn’t I be all about the vegan recipes? Well yeah, but that’s not where I get my inspiration. I’m secretly all over non-vegan Pinterest and Facebook checking out what people are making and figuring out how to make it vegan. Oh, and when I come across a totally new-to-me dish that I’ve yet to veganize? That’s the best! So I was scoping out recipe videos on Facebook a while back when I came across haluski. It was super simple, but looked like total comfort food and I could see that the Facebookers were into it. So I put vegan haluski on my list. There are a bunch of ways to make this dish, but the most basic version involves not much more than onions, butter, egg noodles and cabbage. That’s pretty easy to veganize by swapping out vegan butter for the dairy-based stuff and regular pasta for egg noodles. You can really use any shape pasta you like, but I had an epiphany in the supermarket and realized mafalda (those mini lasagna noodles) pretty closely resembled egg noodles, with their wavy shapes and all. Some versions of haluski also include bacon or ham. I like to go for maximum deliciousness and I’m always looking for an excuse to cook up some smoky tofu, so I did just that. I went with the quick and dirty technique used in my recent fajita recipe and simply pan-fried the tofu before dousing it with sauce. That worked out great because some of the smoky flavor from the sauce ends up in the skillet, and in turn in your noodles. So good! I realized after I photographed the dish that sauerkraut was an option. Any time sauerkraut is an option I take it! So I threw some into the skillet at the end, and it was pure heaven.
Tips for Making Awesome Vegan Haluski
You can use just about any pasta shape with this recipe. I selected mafalda because it looks like egg noodles. If you can’t find mafalda, farfalle and rotini would work well too! Want to make this recipe gluten-free? Use your favorite gluten-free pasta and gluten-free tamari in place of soy sauce. What’s vegan butter? Is it the same thing as margarine? It’s basically margarine, but not all margarine is dairy-free — vegan butter is. Earth Balance and Melt are two popular brands to look for. What if I can’t find vegan butter or just don’t want to use it? Substitute your favorite cooking oil. Wait, I thought haluski was made with dumplings/potatoes/something else other than pasta? There are a bunch of different regional versions of haluski, and egg noodle haluski is just one of them! Would you like me to create another version as well? Let me know!
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