• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I’m a big fan of TVP.
    It’s really cheap, you can keep it on your shelf for an eternity, and you just cook it for a few minutes, then you can use it where you’d use meat.

    So, for example, you can get them in meatball-shape, which I just throw into the water when my noodles are almost done cooking.

    It’s also quite chewy and if you get it in steak-shape and you sear it like a steak, then the Maillard reaction will make it taste quite a lot like a seared steak. As a long-time vegetarian, I had to gag when I first made it like that, because at least my body was convinced that I was biting into meat.