Join us outside the Tool Lending Library for a plant based cooking demonstration featuring items from the Tool Lending Library's new Culinary Tool Collection! We will demonstrate making healthier sweet potato fries in one of our Air Fryers and prepare a delicious dipping sauce. Afterwards, we'll prepare a vegan dessert using one of the new soft serve ice cream makers.
This event will be held outdoors, in the Tool Library Parking Area. Masks are required and all attendees are asked to practice social distancing.
Thank you to the Berkeley Public Library Foundation for funding the Charlie Cart and Culinary Tools Collection and to the Friends of the Library for their continued support of Library Programming.
Here are the recipes. Remember, you can check out the kitchen appliances you need to make these recipes at the Tool Library.
Sweet Potato Fries with a vegan mayo and chipotle sauce
BPL Tool Lending Library- Culinary Tool: Ninja Air Fryer
Makes enough for 1-2 cup servings
1 medium size sweet potatoes peeled and cut into French fry style pieces
1-2 Tbsp. olive oil
1/8 tsp garlic powder
1/8 tsp paprika
Place air fryer on a surface that has plenty of space all around it. The machine can get very hot. Only touch the handle and settings buttons when in use. Allow machine to cool before washing the container.
Allow air fryer at least 3-5 mins time to heat up at 390 degrees before placing ingredients in it.
While air fryer is heating up mix sweet potato fries in a bowl with olive oil, garlic and paprika until all pieces are coated well enough with the oil and spices.
Once air fryer is heated place the sweet potatoes in the frying container. Do not stack fries on top of each other. This will allow each fry to cook properly without burning them.
Set time for 6 mins at 390 degrees. Turn fries over and set timer for another 5 mins.
Once fries have cooked for a total of 11 mins turn off air fryer and enjoy them with the chipotle sauce.
Chipotle Dipping Sauce
½ cup vegan mayo or mayo of choice
1Tbsp chipotle sauce
1 tsp lime juice (about half of one medium size lime freshly squeezed)
¼ tsp paprika
¼ tsp garlic
Wisk all ingredients together in a bowl and serve with sweet potato fries. Enjoy!
Strawberry banana frozen yogurt (recipe adopted from Cuisinart Mix-It-In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker Instruction and Recipe Booklet)
BPL Tool Lending Library Culinary Tools- Cuisinart Soft Ice Cream Maker and Vitamix Blender
Makes about 10 1-2 cup servings
1 large banana peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces
8 ozs fresh or frozen thawed strawberries
½ cup coconut or date sugar
½ cup oat milk
¼ cup orange juice concentrate thawed
½ tsp pure vanilla extract (optional)
½ cups of planted based vanilla yogurt
Place the banana, strawberries, sugar and oat milk, orange juice concentrate and vanilla in a blender or food processor with an S blade. Blend until smooth and transfer to a medium bowl and stir in yogurt and vanilla extract with a whisk.
Turn on ice cream maker and pour in ingredients. Allow to mix and freeze until desired serving consistency is reached. Begin checking consistency after 12 to 15 minutes of freezing. Serve in bowls or cones, adding mix-in while dispensing frozen yogurt. Enjoy!
Mango Sorbet Tartlets (Recipe from Ani’s Raw Food Desserts- Ani Phyo)
BPL Tool Lending Library Culinary Tools: Cuisinart Food Processor and Vitamix Blender
Makes 4-6 tartlets or one 8” pie
Crust
2 cups shredded coconut
½ cup raw cashews
¼ tsp salt optional
¼ cup agave syrup
Place all crust ingredients in a food processor with an S blade and blend until smooth
Mango Sorbet
8-10 oz bag of frozen mangos
1 cup filtered water
1/3 cup agave
Place all sorbet ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
Add to one 8” pie pan or into tartlet cups. If using tartlet cups or pie pan place crust into either container and press firmly with fingertips to form the crust. Chill tartlet cups in freezer for about 30 minutes, if serving the mango sorbet immediately after tartlet cups have been chilled. If making it into a pie, let the crust and sorbet sit in the freezer until pie is firm enough to cut pieces. Enjoy!