Francesca is a passionate vegan home cook. On Recipes and Places she shares easy plant based recipes and naturally vegan dishes from all over the world.
Focaccia barese is a typical focaccia of Apulian cuisine, made up of a crispy base, a soft and light inside, mixed with boiled potatoes and durum wheat semolina, and topped with juicy cherry tomatoes, olives and oregano. If you ever travel to Puglia, and specifically Bari, you will find this type of focaccia everywhere. There […]
This Italian dish called frittedda represents spring. It’s made with artichokes, peas, and broad beans in agrodolce, which means sweet and sour. It’s made with seasonal produce, and it’s a super delicious naturally vegan dish that can be served with bread but also with pasta. What you need for this Sicilian Frittedda : How to make this […]
This Creamy Spinach Lemon Orzo makes the perfect weeknight meal, it’s super simple to whip up and it’s super delicious! It’s a super green orzo, made with a spinach sauce and paired with leeks and peas. I love orzo pasta because it cooks super quickly and it can be used to make a risotto style […]
This is a 3 ingredient vegan chocolate mousse made with silken tofu. I make this all the time and I’ve had many non vegans try it and no one could tell it’s made from tofu. It’s incredible, tofu provides an amazing silky texture as well as added protein. The mousse is decadent, rich, smooth, creamy, and super […]
Fave e Cicoria (Broad beans and chicory) is a traditional dish of the Apulian region of Italy. It’s also known as “ncapriata” or “fae e foje” and it is an ancient, naturally vegan peasant dish. The pair of these two main ingredients it’s perfect, the sweet broad bean puree goes perfectly with the bitterness of […]
As part of my Naturally Vegan series, I discovered this Indian curry, made or yellow split mung beans and coconut. Indian cuisine, in particular South Indian, is well known for having a high variety of naturally vegan and vegetarian dishes. This curry is a mung (or moong) bean curry. It’s cooked with grated coconut, and […]