Hi folks! On Friday, some friends are coming over to play Unfathomable, a board game set on a boat in the Cthulhu mythos, so I thought it would be fun to cook something with a bit of a seafood / ocean taste. Only catch: I’m vegetarian, so no fish.
I’m looking for inspiration for something that might have this sort of flavor. So far, I’ve thought about something using wakame or nori sheets, but although I do have experience cooking Chinese and Japanese dishes, I couldn’t think of any sort of full dish that might have the right taste.
I’m aware that there are vegan “fake salmon” or “fake tuna” things that you can buy, but I haven’t been too impressed with those so far.
Any thoughts?
For anyone curious: after a lot of research and then failing to find hearts of palm in any supermarkets, I ended up going for vegan crab cakes with jackfruit. At the end of the day, they didn’t taste a huge amount like crab, but with lemon juice, dill, and nori, they evoked vague impressions of seafood, I think. And everyone had seconds or thirds, so they seemed to taste good enough, even for the non-vegetarians :).
I used essentially this recipe, but with jackfruit instead of hearts of palm, and with far more nori: https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/vegan-recipes/vegan-crab-cakes/
Thank you for the ideas!