Vegan Recipes and Plant Based Cooking

When you want depth of flavor in your vegetable based soup or broth there are two key ingredients. Mushrooms and nutritional yeast. All the other components are important too, but without mushrooms, yeast or both, it's tough to get that really satisfying oomph from just veg. These things have what chefs and foodies call umami. They have this wondrous ability to make your taste buds stand at attention so that they notice the symphony of flavors you've put into your food. Ingredients 1 pint white mushrooms, sliced 1/2 yellow onion, diced 1 green bell pepper, diced 1 poblano pepper, diced 2 medium tomatoes, diced 1 long hot pepper, sliced 1 jalapeno pepper, minced 1 serrano pepper, minced 3 puya chiles 2 japonese chiles 3 cloves garlic, smashed, sliced 1 can garbanzos, plus 2 tbls can broth 1 can red beans, rinsed 6 cups water 3 tbls olive oil 1/3 cup nutritional yeast 3 tsps salt 2 tsps black pepper 1 tsp cumin seed 1 tsp coriander seed 5 pieces allspice 5 p