Vegan Southern Fried Chicken

I regret not taking any pictures of my Vegan Southern Fried Chicken with potato salad that I made yesterday. It tasted really good! It's another recipe that I tried from Chef Roberto Martin's book, "Vegan Cooking for Carnivores".

I had to make some adjustments to the recipe because I couldn't find a few of the ingredients that he listed but it still tasted amazing. Every Wednesday I've been cooking for the Gonzalez family and it has now become known as Vegan Wednesdays and the Vegan Southern Fried Chicken received the approval from the Gonzalez's so I was happy with all my hard work.

The "fried chicken" uses Gardein's chick'n scallopini and rice paper as the "fried chicken" skin. The secret to how good it tastes is definitely in the spice blend. It's good enough to use on real chicken when frying it up.

But the biggest hit was the potato salad. I learned this recipe from my aunt and vegan or non-vegan versions are delicious!

Violeta's Potato Salad

Ingredients:

6 to 8 large red potatoes, diced in large chunks prior to cooking, with the skin on
2 to 3 stalks of celery, diced small
1/2 a white onion, diced small
Vegan Mayo
Yellow mustard (French's is my favorite brand)
Garlic Salt, Kosher salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Boil the diced potatoes in salted water until you are able to stick a fork through the potato (not mushy because then it will become chunky mashed potato salad). In a colander throw the diced celery and onions so that when you drain the potatoes of the hot water in the colander, the celery and onions get "semi" cooked with the hot water. Let the potatoes, celery and onions cool for about 15 minutes and then throw in a bowl. Add the vegan mayo, about 3 to 4 heaping tablespoons, about 2 to 3 heaping tablespoons of the yellow mustard, about 1 tablespoon of the garlic salt and a large pinch of kosher salt and pepper. Mix everything together until the potatoes look a bit creamy. Taste at this point and see if you need to add more garlic salt, salt or pepper.

Enjoy your potatoes!

-V