Vegan Yum Yum's Italian Rice & Beans

This recipe has quickly become a favorite of our family.  It is a Vegan Yum Yum miracle.  We had followed Lauren Ulm’s blog for a while, but I hadn’t seen this recipe before.  We first made it when we got her book last fall.  I would say we have made it 5 times since.

I followed the recipe on page 59 of her book (exactly, I thought) but managed to mess it up the first time… because apparently I didn’t read it… it was a good lesson for me to read the whole recipe first.  This is a bad habit that typically leads to issues.  The website has nice step by step instructions, which I love, but following her book version I somehow got screwed up.  Fortunately, this recipe can also be found on her website: Vegan Yum Yum’s Italian Rice & Beans.

We followed Lauren’s advice and got a Microplane grater for the lemon zest.  Lemons and limes seem to wind up in almost everything that we make, so this was a really great purchase.

The kids eat the rice and beans and ignore the rest, but they typically do pretty well with it.