Recipe

TVP Taco Meat

Enjoy this vegan taco meat in your burritos, tacos, vegan crunchwraps, taco salads, and more! It's made with inexpensive dry soy crumbles and tastes better than Taco Bell.

Print options

Defaults: Arial 14 pt, photo excluded, available notes and nutrition included. Choose options here, then use your browser’s Print command (⌘P on Mac, Ctrl+P elsewhere). White paper; margins: top/right/bottom 0.5 inch, left 1 inch. Browser margins: Default; scale: 100%; headers/footers: off. Choices apply to printing; the complete recipe stays visible on screen.

Reset print options (keeps selected ingredient units and batch).

Ingredient batch: 3× original. Base yield: 6 -8 servings.

Scaled amounts are simple math, not kitchen-tested. Times, temperatures, pan sizes and amounts inside the steps stay as written.

Ingredient display: US / original units. Rounded cooking measures; original amounts remain available on screen in alternate views. Printed ingredients use this selection. Recipe schema and any available nutrition describe the canonical base batch. Unit changes never alter cooking directions, times or nutrition.

TVP Taco Meat
Yield
18 -8 servings
Prep
5 minutes
Cook
20 minutes

Ingredients

Base draft — original amounts

The original draft batch is shown here for comparison; no public structured data is emitted. Base yield: 6 -8 servings.

  • 2 cups TVP
  • 2 cups water
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup aquafaba
  • 5 tsp chili powder NOT cayenne!
  • 1 Tbsp garlic powder
  • 1 Tbsp cumin powder
  • 2 1/2 tsp msg or white miso
  • 2 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp paprika
  • 1/2 tsp marjoram
  • dash of black pepper
  • 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup water

Instructions

  1. Mix the water, soy sauce, and aquafaba together in a bowl.
  2. Heat TVP and the liquid from step 1 in a frying pan until the liquid is completely absorbed.
  3. Add all the spices and cook, stirring so it doesn't burn, allowing the mixture to brown a bit in the pan.
  4. Add 2 Tbsp of oil and keep browning it another 5 minutes.
  5. Once it becomes more browned and drier, turn off the heat and add 1/2 cup water.

Open clean print view

Add Ad-Free Cook as a preferred source on Google

Print with your browser’s Print command. Letter and A4 layouts leave room for a recipe binder.

https://adfreecook.com/vegan-taco-meat/