A few years ago I discovered the wonderful world of AREPAS!!! I just made them on a big flat skillet pan (I linked a similar one here) we have, but I linked an actual arepa maker for you if you’d rather take that route. Anywho, I found healthy version that I liked and made it quite often. This time I wanted to make a vegan version, since the recipe I had found used eggs. Yes I eat eggs, but many people don’t for various reasons. Thus was born, the Avocado Arepas!!
The recipe also called for cheese, so I used the vegan’s favorite cheese flavor replacer…nutritional yeast. (Linked there for you if you don’t have any) We put it on popcorn and WOWWWW!!! SO…GOOD!! There are so many uses for it, and it’s also got a lot of health benefits. You really can’t go wrong buying some .
Now, I’m gonna be honest with you all…I am NOT a huge fan of Avocado in the least. Not sure if it’s the taste, or texture, or both. The only way i’ll eat it, is if it’s disguised in something where you can’t taste it. In the arepas, the flavor of it was a bit stronger than I like, so I’d back it off to probably a 1/4 an avocado, but that’s just me.
Now these take a bit longer to cook than normal arepas. With the avocado, they’re heavier and thicker. You could even cover them with a lid to give the steam effect and cook them a bit faster.
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Vegan Arepas
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Spelt Flour
- 1/4 cup water (More if needed)
- 1/2 Avocado
- 2 tsp Nutritional Yeast
- 1/2-1 tsp Garlic Powder
- Olive Oil (For Cooking)
Instructions
- Turn a burner to med/high heat and put the olive oil on a flat pan to heat up.
- Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil in a small bowl.
- Pour the mixture into four rounded patties on the pan. Cook until you can flip it without it falling apart.
- Cook on the other side until it reaches desired done-ness.
- Enjoy! I made a sandwich with 2 of them. Store in an airtight container in the fridge up to a week.