Soy Protein Dishes. Ideas and Recipes
Soy Protein
Lately I have been tinkering with this protein, to fantastic results.
Please do not find me too reverse chic here (I know my old hippie ways are always lurking and get summoned up on a dime). It’s just that I like to cash in on my utilitarian nature every chance I get. What sends me tinkering beyond our familiar protein is, prices of fish and meat trending up in an annoying, sometimes even unsettling, manner. Add to this a vexing inherited tendency towards high cholesterol, in spite of monitoring my numbers constantly and of eating super healthy.
Enter Pure Plant Protein!
All the protein of fish or meat, ounce for ounce, and none of the cholesterol or the fat. And most exciting of all, very economical. A win-win!
Soy Protein: Single Ingredient!
The single ingredient is soy flour. The soy bean has been deconstructed into its oil and its flour. It is the protein-super-rich soy flour we are using here. The brand I discovered is generically called Plant Basics.
And sure enough, it tastes equally generic. No flavor whatsoever. But hold on! In no time, this blank slate will take on the flavors you will pair it with, just like a chameleon. It is here for the texture and the amazing nutritional content, and ends up tasting as delicious as the meat, poultry and fish dishes you usually make, only with this soy protein, at a fraction of the price. You are not just giving a badly needed break to your wallet, but to your sometimes overtaxed body!
Vegan Diners, Rejoice!
This soy protein is not to be confused with the dreadful, ridiculously over processed and pretty worthless Impossible and Beyond Meat, or with all other soy-based ersatz meats that have flooded our “Health Food Stores” shelves. This product is a pure and complete protein, which is the Holy Grail for Vegan Diners who are often challenged with find sources of healthy and complete protein. Making a meal with pure soy protein requires your simple but necessary participation, just as any dish would require. A little more work than buying the junky “reheat and eat” prepared soy-based dishes, but well worth the few minutes work it requires.
You will become a pro in no time!
Soak the Soy Protein
The product comes bone-dry. Once you soak it to reconstitute it to its full volume, you’re good to go!
My favorite shapes are in strips, and ground. There is a third shape (cubes) I am still tinkering with and it is still a work in progress, but I’m really going places with the ground shape and the strip shapes.
What to do with Soy Protein?
Let me count the ways. Mind you, these are just a few examples to get you started! You will soon be creating your own dishes, with just a few tweaks, using what you have on end.
Start by soaking your soy protein STRIPS in very hot water to cover, for about 15 minutes. Then proceed with the recipe (add corn starch, soy sauce etc… just as the recipe instructs you)
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Go on my search box, where you will find no end of tajine recipes, and follow the recipes always starting with the initial soaking as instructed here
Couldn’t resist including a totally off the cuff tajine dish I made last night (follow above instructions), using the soy protein strips, with whatever interesting stuff I found in my fridge and my pantry: baby potatoes, olives, tomatoes, artichoke hearts. Have fun improvising!
Same as above
Start by soaking your GROUND soy protein very hot water to cover, for about 15 minutes. Then squeeze it completely dry and proceed with the recipe
Go on my search box where you will find no end of burgers recipes, fish meat vegetable recipes, and follow the recipes always starting with the initial soaking as instructed here
This dish being meatless, have fun topping it with shredded cheese!
Same as above
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pasta tagliatelle bolognese on the wooden table
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