Smokey Duvec (Balkan-Style Stew)

"This recipe comes from Leah Leneman’s book “Easy Vegan Cooking”. A quick surf on the Internet revealed next to nothing about Duvec (which Leah tells us is pronounced as dyuvetch), but my guess is that traditionally it would be made with smoked sausage and not tofu! But I love tofu, especially smoked, so can’t wait to try this. This recipe uses brown rice, which depending on the brand and way you cook it can take anything between 35 minutes to 1 hour to cook. However, if you can find it in the shops, quick-cook brown rice can save time. Because of this, the cooking time shown here is a bit of a guesstimate; I’ve assumed the longest time and you may be able to get everything ready much quicker. Alternatively, cooking the rice and potatoes before hand makes this a very quick recipe. Recipe posted for the Zaar World Tour 2005."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 5mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
4
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directions

  • Cook the rice according to packet instructions.
  • About 30 minutes before the end of the rice cooking time, start cooking the potatoes; bring to the boil and boil them for about 5 minutes.
  • While the potatoes are cooking and rice continues to cook, chop the onion and garlic and fry in a large saucepan for about 4 minutes.
  • Chop the peppers and tomatoes, add them to the pan and stir in the tofu, mixing everything together; drain the par-boiled potatoes and add them too; stirring constantly continue to fry the ingredients for a few minutes.
  • Pour the vegetable stock into the pan, bring to the boil then lower the heat, cover and leave to cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • Stir in the cooked rice, peas and black pepper; the peas will reduce the temperature of the stew so bring the contents of the pan back to a healthy simmer, then cook for another few minutes over a low heat.
  • Serve sprinkled with parsley.

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I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London. I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too! I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food! I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly. As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too. If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
 
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