Hey all,
I recently bought a bag of Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP) as a recipe in a cookbook I have called for it for tacos. Funnily enough, the bag I got also had a recipe for tacos on it, and after following it I have to say, it was phenomenal. Pretty certain I got bang for my buck considering it only used 100 g or such of a 340 g bag that I got for $5.79, that’s only about 21 ¢ a taco putting aside other ingredients.
I checked the company site for other recipes using TVP, but there wasn’t a whole lot. Curious if anybody here has any go-to recipes they’d like to recommend or share, as I’d love to use this stuff more often.
White bean chili is one of my favorites.
So there’s another thing called soy curls, which are similar to tvp. They come in a bunch of different shapes. Which can be handy for emulating different meat cuts. Just rehydrate them in whatever kinda broth/stock you want beef, chicken, veggie. I love to fry up an onion, and a poblano then drop in my tvp/curls. Add your favorite taco spices and enjoy some delicious tacos.
I recently ran tvp through a pressure cooker and it was divine.
In addition to the other great ideas, I like making stuffed mushrooms with leftover TVP. Ingredients and style vary with what I have on hand but easy and tasty. Just remove the stem, fill/top mushrooms with tvp mix and bake/airfry. I love making TexMex ones with chorizo tvp.
Chili is another solid option
I’ve seen people rehydrating them, mixing with breadcrumbs, making balls out of them, and deep-frying.
