TVP

[Guest guest]

TVP is textured vegetable protein like the veggie crumbles or grillers made by

Morningstar or Boca.

 

Bj. Grey

Woodbridge, Va.

I'm not messy...I'm creative!

 

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" rhonlynns " <webrstraw

" vegetarian group "

Monday, September 28, 2009 11:34:48 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern

TVP

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will someone explain tVP to me? I often see it in veggie burger recipes, but

I'mnot familiar with the ingrediant.--Rhonda

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

[Default] On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:34:48 -0000, " rhonlynns "

<webrstraw wrote:

 

>Will someone explain tVP to me?

 

TVP is texturized vegetable protein, made from soy beans. It is sold in

dry form as granules or chunks depending on how you want to use it. (I

buy both.) It can be purchased flavored or unflavored. Common flavor

choices are all vegan bacon, beef, chicken, taco, and ham. but you can add your

own flavoring when you rehydrate the tvp which you do by adding boiling

water to an equal amount of tvp and letting it sit for anywhere from 10

to 30 minutes or more.

 

It's a very versatile product. You can use it to make any dish calling

for ground meat or chunks of meat...you don't have to give up your beef

stew after all, just sub tvp.:-) It's nice, when you find a recipe you

really want to try that calls for meat and you can use tvp instead.

Nothing fancy about it, just reliable, inexpensive, low-fat,

low-calorie, non-colesterol protein. You can buy it for under $2.50 per

lb, dry weight <http://www.barryfarm.com/cooking_supplies.htm>. A pound

of granules is about 5 cups. I use 3/4 of a cup dry granules to sub in

recipes calling for a pound of ground meat. That means about 6 1/2 meals

per pound of tvp, less than 50 cents per meal!

 

I used the ham-flavored granules recently to make ham salad sandwiches.

They were yummy.

[Guest guest]

I have Boca crumblers in my freezer. Wow, TVP that sounds like a versatile

product. In Vegans with a Vengence, it calls for it with one of the veggie

burger recipes that caught my eye. I'll grab some at the health food store, next

time I go.

 

, bjgrey39 wrote:

>

> TVP is textured vegetable protein like the veggie crumbles or grillers made by

Morningstar or Boca.

>

> Bj. Grey

> Woodbridge, Va.

> I'm not messy...I'm creative!

[Guest guest]

It's a lot cheaper than Morningstar Farms or Boca crumbles. I don't buy

those at all anymore, just use TVP. Also, it doesn't take up valuable room

in my freezer!

 

Audrey

 

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:58 PM, rhonlynns <webrstraw wrote:

 

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> I have Boca crumblers in my freezer. Wow, TVP that sounds like a versatile

> product. In Vegans with a Vengence, it calls for it with one of the veggie

> burger recipes that caught my eye. I'll grab some at the health food store,

> next time I go.

>

> -

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Same with chili. You'll never know the difference!

 

At 12:27 PM 9/28/2009, Mary wrote:

It's a very versatile product. You can use it to make any dish calling

for ground meat or chunks of meat...you don't have to give up your beef

stew after all, just sub tvp.:-)

[Guest guest]

TVP can be purchased dry -- you don't have to get prepared veggie

crumbles. It's really cheap if you get it this way.

 

I love using it for sloppy joes. You have to rehydrate it, which isn't

complicated, just boiling water poured over it and a 10 minute wait.

Then saute onions and garlic, add drained rehydrated TVP, a can of

tomato paste, and your choice of spices. Sloppy Joe mixes that come in

packages work great.

 

It's a quick meal after a long day at work. Start to table in 20 minutes.

 

Cheers,

 

Trish

[Guest guest]

TVP, yes, a very good protien suppliment.  I use it all the time too....the

difference in my sloppy joe preparation is that instead of using water before, I

use water last .....sauteeing the TVP onions, greenpeppers, celery, mushrooms

spices etc.w/ the TVP at the same time (brown without burning), This gives the

TVP a nutty toasted flavor, ummmm, then add the tomato paste and continue to

turn over + over browning deeply...........THEN add your water.....cold or hot. 

Bring back to boiling.....careful, don't let the sauce pop on

you............this can be frozen or used in place of any sauteed grounded beef

recipe...........lasagna......mac + cheese ..etc. you pick...........o   o  I

did it .....I'm hungry now.......enjoy!.....my name is diane

 

 

 

 

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bantrymoon <bantrymoon

 

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:22:35 PM

Re:TVP

 

 

TVP can be purchased dry -- you don't have to get prepared veggie

crumbles. It's really cheap if you get it this way.

 

I love using it for sloppy joes. You have to rehydrate it, which isn't

complicated, just boiling water poured over it and a 10 minute wait.

Then saute onions and garlic, add drained rehydrated TVP, a can of

tomato paste, and your choice of spices. Sloppy Joe mixes that come in

packages work great.

 

It's a quick meal after a long day at work. Start to table in 20 minutes.

 

Cheers,

 

Trish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

>>>> the difference in my sloppy joe preparation is that instead of

using water before, I use water last .....sauteeing the TVP onions,

greenpeppers, celery, mushrooms spices etc.w/ the TVP at the same time

(brown without burning), This gives the TVP a nutty toasted flavor, <<<<

 

What a great suggestion. I'll give this a try!

 

--

Trish Carr

http://home.comcast.net/~bantrymoon/

[Guest guest]

I noticed a can of Manwhich in the pantry. I want to try it.I can reserve a bit

of it, and add the TVP. Cool the rest normally. That's a good idea.

 

Do you brown it, then reconstitute it?--Rhonda

[Guest guest]

Tried TVP the other day for the first time - this stuff has potential! My girl

wanted something quick to eat and was in the mood for chinese so we opened up a

bag of frozen green beans, soaked some TVP in vegetarian boullion broth, tossed

in some minced garlic, honey, and soy sauce and had greenbeans like they have at

our favorite resteraunt!  We need to tweak the recipe a bit, but for something

vegetarian off the fly with something your not familiar with, it turned out

pretty durn good! and that veggie boullion we love as a soup with a little

rice.  Im looking forward to making baby food again!

~Tee