TVP

topic posted Thu, April 23, 2009 - 9:15 AM by  Pierre
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Anyone got a good source of recipes using Textured Veg Protein.. I bought a pack and thought.. hmmm do I just use this as meat.. but was sure there'd be some cool ideas on here..

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  • Re: TVP

    Thu, April 23, 2009 - 8:50 PM
    This doesn't answer your question but, rather raises an other one. Are aware of that heavy use of TVP can be hard on your digestion? Please keep in mind that TVP although a vegetarian food, is also a very refined food. If you really feel you need to eat it, go for it but, you may not want to get to carried away! Good luck. By the way you can use it in most recipes as a ground meat substitute, just reconstitute and think of it as pan fired ground meats. Obvious use is as a filling for; taco, burrito and season as you would sausage meats and you have meat filling for Italian sausages as in use in lasagna( basil, oregano and anise and or hot peppers. If you have more questions, I will do my best to hook you up! Ta for now! Keep growing, keep learning, keep trying to be as healthy as you can be!
    • Re: TVP

      Sat, April 25, 2009 - 9:01 PM
      It's not all that refined- it's soy beans heated and pressed to extract the oil (trust me, I've seen the process many times because I dabble in small-scale oil extraction for other reasons). That's not substantially different than deep-frying other things- it heats the beans which inactivates certain not-good-for-you enzymes. So the stuff is basically cooked.

      Anyway, the trick to TVP is reconstituting it first, then frying , otherwise it's just a mushy bad-tasting bean mess.

      7/8 cup of boiling water added to 1 cup TVP, then flavor it, then fry with onion or whatever else. That can then be added to other parts of your meal. It's not all that great on it's own, I don't think you'd want to make meatloaf that way or anything.

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