Meatless Monday

Textured Vegetable Protein with Brown Rice

For those of you that don't think you can go vegetarian for one meal, try this recipe.  All of the texture, flavors, and colors in this dish will make you forget that anything is missing.

Ingredients:

1 cup textured vegetable protein (hydrated with 2 cups of vegetable broth)

1 small yellow onion (chopped)

1 clove of garlic (thinly sliced)

8 fresh green beans (cut into bite sized pieces)

1/2 cup chopped bell peppers (for this recipe I used yellow, red, and orange)

1/2 cup frozen peas (defrosted of course)

2 tablespoons freshly chopped cilantro for garnish

1 teaspoon low sodium soy sauce

1 teaspoon sesame oil

1/4 cup of water

In a medium sized skillet (on medium high heat) sautée all of the vegetables in the sesame oil.  Cook for 5 minutes.  Add the textured vegetable protein (TVP from here on out), soy sauce, and water.  Stir well and place a lid on the skillet.  If you do not have a lid, use aluminum foil.  Turn the heat down to simmer and cook (covered) for 10 minutes. Turn the heat off and remove skillet from the stove.  Serve TVP over brown rice or quinoa and garnish with cilantro.  Enjoy!

If this dish is not salty enough, you can add more soy sauce or get really creative by adding nutritional yeast.