Recipes – Veggie Runners

Roasted Nut Protein Balls

Some people like chocolates and cupcakes. At the risk of sounding like healthy-eating uber-nerds, we Veggie Runners love a good protein ball. Yes, really. But there’s a reason for that: these Roasted Nut Protein Balls are absolutely delicious. They’re sweet, moist, tasty, vegan and incredibly good for you – what’s not to love?! No added…

Vegan Nutella Cookies

These Vegan Nutella Cookies help me forget that I totally failed at Lent. I’m not religious but I do like a challenge. My Lent-alution (Lent-resolution) had been to start meditating every day for ten minutes. I managed a week. I did feel the benefits of that one week, but I didn’t properly prioritise it, and…

Chia Seed Pitta Breads

Far better to make resolutions for Lent than New Years. January is a terrible time for self-improvement – it’s dark, cold and your cupboards are still full of the booze from Christmas. Spring, on the other hand, is by definition all about new beginnings. Take something on for the 40 days of Lent, and by…

Ultimate Veggie Burgers

As we’ve said before, we don’t really believe in “new year, starve yourself” resolutions. I would hope you know us well enough by now to know that. I have made myself one January pact, though – I want to walk with a lighter environmental footprint. Being a vegetarian helps my carbon footprint a lot, and…

Chewy Nut and Oatmeal Cookies

As you know, we Veggie Runners like to make our recipes quick and easy when we can. We also love delicious food that can serve many purposes. This Chewy Nut and Oatmeal Cookies recipe meets all these criteria and more. They’re a doddle to make, freeze well, are really tasty and have a great blend…

Pecan and Pear Recovery Cake

We Veggie Runners like to think of ourselves as kitchen innovators, experimental culinary artists who push definitions of (good?) taste and nudge the boundaries of what constitutes ‘cooking.’* In this spirit of epicurean adventure, we have invented what we believe will prove to be our greatest triumph: the Recovery Cake. Yes, one must eat after…

Ras-El-Hanout Butternut Squash Risotto

This Ras-El-Hanout Butternut Squash Risotto is something I’ve been tweaking for a while – the sweetness of the squash works well with the cinnamon in the North African spices. I’m sure a risotto purist would recoil at the sound of it, but they’d soon change their mind when they got a taste. If you have…

Spiced Leek and Chickpeas

All images: Zsolt Sandor / MothershipUK This lightly spiced dish has a delicate, distinctive flavour. We created it for the vegan brunch we hosted after the Jane Tomlinson Leeds 10k in July. All of our guests had bravely (foolishly?!) sweated their way round the course on a sweltering day. The least we could do was…

Mexican Vegan Chilli Chocolate Pots

Be warned: these Mexican Vegan Chilli Chocolate Pots may look harmless and easy going but they have a real kick to them. They are definitely not for kids! Inspired by spiced hot chocolate we had while skiing, a little goes a long way with these dark, decadent pots. These cheeky choc pots went down a…

Banana and Walnut Pancakes

I did it! While mum had some fantastic company, drinks stations and CAKE after her 22-mile training run last weekend, I knew I emphatically would not for mine. I anticipated my longest run before the Plusnet Yorkshire Marathon being a bit of a slog all by myself, but it actually turned out to be a…

Vegan Cherry Chocolate Tiffin

These little Vegan Cherry Chocolate Tiffin bars taste all grown up and sophisticated but are really easy to make. They’re vegan (you probably picked up on that from the title) and made with fresh cherries if you can find them at a reasonable price. If not, dried fruit will do just fine. The flavour is…

Marathon Carb Loading: Pearl Barley Tabbouleh

When we did the Edinburgh Half Marathon earlier in the year, I was diligent about preparing my nutrition for the 13.1 miles ahead of me. I began carb-loading 2 days before, had my traditional breakfast of wholemeal bagel and jam and was generally conscientious about my pre-race nutrition. Now that I’m training for the Yorkshire…