5 new ways to get your vegan fix at Dallas restaurants and stores
It’s a wonderful time to eat vegan in Dallas with all the dishes and options that lie ahead. Restaurants big and small keep adding vegan items to their menus, and companies keep introducing exciting new products, making “vegan” one of the most exciting categories of food right now.
Here are five new vegan things that popped up in Dallas-Fort Worth:
Desperados fried chicken
The new vegan fried chicken concept is a ghost kitchen spin-off from El Palote Panaderia, the famous family-run vegan Mexican restaurant in southeast Dallas.
El Palote co-founder Aaron Arias started making a vegan fried chicken recipe during the pandemic. Now he’s signed a lease for a kitchen on Commerce Street, where he’ll be offering vegan fried chicken in the box through Uber Eats, Door Dash and GrubHub. He is waiting for approvals for permits and other official matters.
In the meantime, Desperados’ chicken is available at El Palote on weekends. Options include Spicy Diablo Drumsticks, Regular Crispy Drumsticks, and Diablo Seasoned Fries. They come with pickled carrots and jalapenos.
Jinya Ramen Bar
California-based Jinya, which has a location in Dallas near Victory Park, regularly launches vegan dishes and specials, and now there are some new ones.
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Tsunami White Pearl, a pasta dish with vegan vegetable broth, Impossible meat, spring onions, red onions, spinach, broccoli, baby leaf, crispy garlic and garlic oil, served with thick noodles.
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Gluten-Free Ramen, a do-it-yourself bowl with vegan broth, your choice of tofu or Impossible meat and two toppings of kikurage, spinach, corn, mushrooms, broccoli or pak choi, served with gluten-free noodles and green onions.
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Fried broccolini with crispy white quinoa, a new side
There is also a limited Chef’s Special: Vegan Crispy Rice with Guacamole, consisting of guacamole with red onions and tomatoes on crispy rice.
Laredo winery
The Tex-Mex chain recently launched a special menu of fantastic plant-based offerings with Impossible meat, black beans and mushrooms. There’s a cute video of a Cantina Laredo chef on Facebook that shows you what the dishes look like.
They include:
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Vegetable enchiladas filled with peppers, poblanos, mushrooms, artichokes, spinach and spiced black beans with ranchera sauce, rice and avocado.
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Black bean quesadilla with spiced black beans, poblanos, mushrooms, corn and vegan cheddar in flour tortillas with guacamole
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Impossible Bowl with coriander lime rice, black beans, corn, jalapeno, red bell pepper and Impossible minced meat
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Impossible tacos with seared Impossible ground beef, vegan cheddar, lettuce, pico de gallo, roasted tomato salsa in corn tortillas, served with black beans
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Mushroom rellenos, with mushrooms, vegan cheddar, spinach, asparagus, corn, red bell pepper and coriander rice with tomatillo ointment.
Master tacos
Maestro is probably best known for its birria tacos, but this authentic west Fort Worth taqueria also offers vegetarian street tacos made from mushrooms, pumpkin, onion, and pepper. You can get them vegan by ordering them with corn tortillas, which are better anyway.
Unreal delicacies
Unreal first burst with one of the most amazing “vegan” meats on the market: a vegan corned beef, which is among other things the central ingredient of a vegan Reuben that is sold by the sandwich chain Mendocino Farms.
They are now available in 140 HEB stores and 30 Whole Foods stores. In addition to the corned beef, there are two new products: roast turkey and steak slices.
CEO and founder Jenny Goldfarb came from a family that had been in the real delicatessen business for over 100 years. She started in her home kitchen and founded Unreal after learning the harsh truth about factory farming. Now they have a local connection: after joining Shark Tank, Goldfarb received a large investment from Mark Cuban of Dallas, who recently became a vegetarian himself.
Unreal Deli’s meat is made from vegetables and grains and has over 20 grams of protein per serving if protein is your thing.
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