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.
Ingredient batch: 2× original. Base yield: 6 -8 servings.
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- Yield
- 12 -8 servings
- Prep
- 5 minutes
- Cook
- 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 946 mL TVP (volume measure)
- 946 mL water (volume measure)
- 118 mL soy sauce (volume measure)
- 118 mL aquafaba (volume measure)
- 49 mL chili powder NOT cayenne! (volume measure)
- 30 mL garlic powder (volume measure)
- 30 mL cumin powder (volume measure)
- 25 mL msg or white miso (volume measure)
- 20 mL onion powder (volume measure)
- 4.9 mL paprika (volume measure)
- 4.9 mL marjoram (volume measure)
- dash of black pepper — original amount unchanged; adjust manually — count retained
- 59 mL vegetable oil (volume measure)
- 237 mL water (volume measure)
Base draft — original amounts
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- 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
- Mix the water, soy sauce, and aquafaba together in a bowl.
- Heat TVP and the liquid from step 1 in a frying pan until the liquid is completely absorbed.
- Add all the spices and cook, stirring so it doesn't burn, allowing the mixture to brown a bit in the pan.
- Add 2 Tbsp of oil and keep browning it another 5 minutes.
- Once it becomes more browned and drier, turn off the heat and add 1/2 cup water.
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