Vegan 'Charcuterie' Boards: Everything You Need to Know - How to eat like an Instagram influencer

I like mock meats, but I wouldn't call it charcuterie. Some can be quite convincing if it's faking cheap junk food things like chicken tendies, or things that are strongly flavoured like pepperoni or chorizo (because you just use the same ingredients to spice the plant ingredients), but it's not the same thing, and it's not good enough to be served at a special occasion, more for casual things.

There's a lot of traditional mock meats around the world, whose recipes have been refined for ages and made to taste good. Portuguese Jews used to make alheira, sausage that looked like chorizo but without the pork, made with vegetables or kosher meat, so they wouldn't stand out from everyone else that had pork sausages hanging up. Get some of those instead of faking chorizo.
Or try Buddhist temple food like these. https://youtu.be/whhZHz4w2kw
Or a thali, Hindu brahmins, Sikhs and Jains have been vegetarian or vegan for centuries, so there's lots of great vegan Indian food. There's many more options than fake meat and fake cheese.
 
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