It isn’t easy being vegan on Passover, especially if you are Ashkenazi and don’t eat kitniyot. No eggs, dairy, beans, rice, etc. is very limiting, but it can be done.
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If you are hosting vegans at a meat seder focus on hearty vegetable dishes like the vegan shepherd’s pie pictured above. Here are a few other tips to keep in mind.
Nuts are vegan and a great way to add flavor, texture and filler to any meal.
Beets, mushrooms, cauliflower and other root vegetables are all hearty and filling ways to feed vegans.
Don’t forget quinoa and chia – quinoa is in high in protein and very versatile, chia is loaded with omega-3 fats and can work as an egg replacer and delicious filling breakfast. These ingredients will be a vegan’s Passover lifesaver.
Note: according to the OU flaxseeds and hemp seeds are considered kitniyot, but chia seeds are not.
12 Passover Vegan Recipes To Take You Through The Holiday
Quinoa Veggie Burgers (use KFP soy sauce)
Crudite with Green Goddess Dip (skip the green beans on Passover)
Mushroom Sweet Potato Salad (sub agave for honey)
Whether you are a vegan or you are hosting a vegan this Passover we have the recipes that everyone will love, they just happen to be vegan.
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Chia seeds are kosher for Passover if they are raw and have a hechsher:
Raw Chia seeds Acceptable without Passover Certification (cRc); … Star-K: Purchase from manufacturers that do not process chometz grains. Consumers are required to carefully check grains BEFORE PESACH for extraneous matter.
Source: https://www.kashrut.com/Passover/MiscProductInfo/ (For 2019)
These comments seem to indicate you are misinterpreting the sentence above. It says that chia seeds are not kitniot (while hemp and flaxseeds are), NOT that they are not kosher for Passover.
I am totally with you Andrea and I now live in a mostly Sephardic city. I don’t really know why they are considered kitniyot I just wanted to make sure people would know to look into and ask their local Rabbi’s, many of these types of ingredients have varying opinions.
Especially because it isn’t like WHEAT is forbidden. Just the leavening.
It’s like, oh, the rules are made by people who don’t actually do the cooking!!!!!
Why are chia seeds not allowed? I confess the Ashkenazi Passover rules flummox me. Sephardic rules seem sensible.