But what do you actually do as a vegetarian when you are overcome by a craving for something comparable, something hearty? The experts at Rügenwalder Mühle probably asked themselves the same question and, after the vegetarian ham pickers, have now also launched a line with vegetarian schnitzels and nuggets. And sent me a tasting kit in the test kitchen.
I pan fried the nuggets for five minutes according to the instructions. Served with a handful of fresh peas and a few fried potato wedges with rosemary salt.
The vegetarian schnitzels also take about five minutes. In that time, I washed some lettuce and dressed some Greek yogurt with salt and lemon juice and zest. To the salad add a few pomegranate seeds, mint and fresh peas. Serve with a light dressing.
The Vegetarian Mill Schnitzels and Vegetarian Mill Nuggets are made entirely meat-free, the info kit explains. Rügenwalder Mühle has developed a vegetarian ham especially for the “Cordon Bleu” variety. The main ingredients are high-quality proteins from soy, egg white and rapeseed oil.
The most important question is, of course, how the new products taste. My favorite are the nuggets and also the vegetarian mills schnitzel cordon bleu. The cheese and (vegetarian) ham make the texture a little more exciting and lightened up than plain schnitzels. The nuggets don’t taste like my homemade organic chicken fillets breaded in panko – but they don’t have to hide behind other convenience products with meat (or meat fibers). In fact, going for the vegetarian product is probably the better choice. Whereby one does not get along naturally also here without chicken (laudably from soil attitude), because the many eggs for the vegetarian mass must be laid in the long run also first.
So if you really have to go fast and meat is either generally not on the menu – or you simply want to cut back on your meat consumption in line with the current trend (“Better rare, but good”) – then the new nuggets and schnitzels from Rügenwalder Mühle are a fabulous alternative to other convenience products.
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