Textured Soy Protein Tomato Pasta Sauce

Tomato pasta sauce made with Textured Soy Protein. Popular with children and as a pasta topping, this dish is also great for a rice-and-cheese bake or for lasagna. Make a large batch for convenience.

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Ingredients

Serves 2

200 g (solid weight 105 g) Textured Soy Protein
1 can (400 g) Canned tomatoes (chopped)
1/2 (about 75 g) Carrot
1/2 (about 50 g) Onion
1 clove (about 8 g) Garlic
1 Bay leaf
10 g Vegetable stock powder
A pinch Salt
A pinch Pepper
2 tablespoons Olive oil

Direction

[Prepare the Textured Soy Protein]

Place the Textured Soy Protein in a strainer and squeeze out the liquid properly.

[Make Tomato Pasta Sauce]

Finely chop the carrot, onion, and garlic.
Add olive oil to a heated frying pan and stir-fry the chopped vegetables over low heat (about 2 minutes).
Add the strained Textured Soy Protein, canned tomatoes (including the liquid), bay leaf, vegetable stock powder, salt, and pepper to the stir-fried vegetables and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetable stock powder has dissolved (about 8 minutes).

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Textured Soy Protein Burger

Burgers made with Textured Soy Protein instead of ground meat. Hearty and filling even without meat, so it would be perfect as the main dish for an evening meal.