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The joys of TVP
..or textured vegetable protein, if you're not up on your acronyms. Tonight I'm making Meatless Meat Loaf. Here's the recipe:
I substituted bread flour for the gluten flour, real garlic for the garlic powder, and used Worcestershire sauce instead of steak sauce. I also added one of mom's hot peppers (I have no idea what kind, but my skin's still burning from cutting the pepper up). I gave a small taste...boy is that bastard hot! It' in the oven now, along with some garlic roasted potatoes. T minus 40 minutes till I see just how much I like this recipe.
Edit: It turned out really well! It had just the right level of spiciness with the pepper, and the potatoes helped offset it a bit. It was only slightly grainy-tasting, as that's one of the things about TVP-there will always be a slight cereal taste to it.
The meatloaf of greatness.
I substituted bread flour for the gluten flour, real garlic for the garlic powder, and used Worcestershire sauce instead of steak sauce. I also added one of mom's hot peppers (I have no idea what kind, but my skin's still burning from cutting the pepper up). I gave a small taste...boy is that bastard hot! It' in the oven now, along with some garlic roasted potatoes. T minus 40 minutes till I see just how much I like this recipe.
Edit: It turned out really well! It had just the right level of spiciness with the pepper, and the potatoes helped offset it a bit. It was only slightly grainy-tasting, as that's one of the things about TVP-there will always be a slight cereal taste to it.
The meatloaf of greatness.
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TVP. *gak* A long time ago in a land far, far away, where we were influenced by our Mormon neighbors, we purchased Perma-Pak food storage, a year's supply for three people. A few years later we were broke so we broke into the food storage. The beef flavor TVP was inedible as far as I'm concerned, the chicken flavor was little better. However, in consuming the chicken-flavored TVP, we discovered what McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are made out of, they're exactly the same, the bubbles in it, the flavor, etc., just not breaded and deep fried.
Posted 09-12-2007 at 07:31 PM by Dingfod -
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Posted 09-24-2007 at 07:35 PM by viscousmemories