In this video, I'm going to show you how to make Vegan Mashed Potatoes and Shiitake Mushroom Gravy.
I'll start with a pot of water, this is about one quarter full, turn your heat on high, pour your potatoes. Once your potatoes are peeled, go ahead and cut them into a few pieces. Once you're done cutting up your potato add it the water. Next, add some sea salt to the potatoes. I like to point out that you should never eat iodize salt only natural sea salt that has not been cooked or process, iodize salt is poisoned you should stay complete away from it, but sea salt is actually good for you and has a high mineral concentration in it.
Okay, while we’re waiting for the potatoes to cook, let’s start on the shiitake mushroom and cut the end off here, you basically want to make your shiitake mushroom very finely diced. Now that you're mushroom is cut go ahead and start working on the union use about one half of a union. And again, you want this to also be finely diced.
Okay, so in this video I don’t have two burners but at home you do, so you would start sautéing the mushrooms and the unions while the potatoes are cooking, in the video I'm going to have to how you one out of time. So we’re going to focus on the potatoes now.
After boiling, the potatoes for a few minutes check and make sure they're done by poking a fork inside; once they split apart, they're ready to be mashed. Turn the heat off; you may want to keep the water for the gravy that’s what I usually do.
Okay the next step is to add a little bit of organic vanilla oat milk, shake it first just a little and then add some earth balance organic buttery spread, this is all natural Vegan spread that taste really, really good has a buttery flavor to it. I love this stuff I'm being pretty liberal here. Cover it let it melt for a moment.
Okay once the butter has melted in go ahead and start mashing the potatoes. All right, we’re done mashing the potatoes, put a lid on it and wait for the gravy to be done. Okay now we’re going to start the gravy portion, so go ahead and turn your pan on you can it turn it on high to be begin with. Add some coconut oil, this coconut oil is perfect for cooking there's no trans fats in it, it’s already melted a little bit so I'll just add it right in.
Add your mushrooms and add your onions. And just go right ahead to start sautéing, I can tell it needs more oil I'm going to add some more, not that much. Turn your heat on medium now we’ll sauté until it’s nice and brown. Okay I've been starting this for a couple minutes now and it’s looking pretty good, you want everything to be somewhat brown. Once everything is brown, take the water that you save from your potatoes and pour it in. Turn your heat on the high—now it comes the fun part, you're going to add organic shoyu sauce, this is the salt flavor, you're going to be doing all of this to flavor add some olive oil, add some nutritional yeast, okay once its boiling go ahead and bring it down to just simmer.
What we’re also going to add is crushed rosemary now crushed rosemary is the only one to use does not put regular rosemary and it will not taste the same this is crushed rosemary. Very important that you find it, if you can't find it do not use the rosemary you will not like it stir everything in. Now you're going to taste it and you're going for flavor. It’s very good; it needs a little bit more salt, so I'm going to add some more shoyu sauce. There's enough rosemary flavor in there, but I think it needs a little bit more nutritional yeast, which is adding body to it. Stir it up a little bit more, turn the heat up a little bit more, taste it again.
Wow, that is really good. Okay the next step is to thickening it, so this is cornstarch add cornstarch to cold water, a couple scoops should work fine, the trick to thickening is that the gravy needs to be pretty much boiling or simmering it pretty rapidly. So we’re going to turn the heat backup. You want it to be just simmering just a few bubbles coming up and then add your thickening agent. The heat is be a little bit higher and then just stirs it in, see we have gravy let’s serve it.
And this is Vegan Mashed Potatoes and Shiitake Mushroom Gravy and I guarantee you, you will love it.
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