First prep the soy curl chicken by soaking them in the 2 cups of vegan chicken broth for 15 minutes. Then drain and squeeze out the excess liquid. You can reuse the chicken broth if you like, but I find it has a bit of a strange aftertaste. Chop up the soy curls into bite size pieces.

Next melt the vegan butter and oil in your skillet and then add in the carrots, celery and shallots / onion. Stir to get them all nice and coated and cook down for about 8 minutes or until they begin to soften a bit.

Add in the chopped thyme and sage, a pinch of salt and black pepper, mushroom seasoning, nutritional yeast and then add in the minced garlic. Stir around and cook for 1-2 minutes making sure to not burn the garlic!

Whisk in the flour. I recommend doing this a tablespoon or so at time and whisking in, and then adding in more flour once it's combined. Repeat this process until all the flour is whisked in.

Next do the same with the vegan chicken broth, add a little and whisk in, then add in more until it's also whisked in. Repeat this with 3/4 cup of the cashew cream.

Add in the reserved soy curls, stir to combine and then add in the frozen peas and stir to combine those as well.

Taste and adjust for seasoning! Very important!

If broth isn't thick enough, add a cornstarch slurry (1 tsp cornstarch mixed with 1 Tbsp of water). Or if the inverse is true and it's too thick, add in a bit more stock.

Keep covered, and warm on low while we prepare the dumplings.

Add the dry ingredients for the dumplings to a bowl and whisk to combine. Then add in the wet ingredients and gently fold together. If the dough seems dry add some more plant milk until it comes together and is quite moist. Scoop out about 2-3 Tbsp worth of the dough and drop it in the skillet, first starting on the outside and going around in a circle. You should have about 12-14 dumplings.

Feel free to spoon over some of the broth over the dumplings. Bring to a simmer, and then cover and continue to simmer for 15-20 minutes, or until you can insert a toothpick in to the dumplings and it comes out clean.

Once the dumplings are cooked through you can serve immediately! Add some fresh chopped parsley on top and ENJOY!