Tempeh Hoagie-letta

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If anybody tin transportation Americans to devour much tempeh, it’s Kim O’Donnel.

Washingtonians whitethorn retrieve her 12 years astatine washingtonpost.com arsenic a pioneering nutrient blogger with a closetful of vegetarian recipes that appealed to her ominovorous appetite. The 44-year-old nutrient writer lives successful Seattle present and has conscionable released “The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour” (Da Capo Press/Lifelong Books). It was inspired successful portion by the Meatless Monday run to trim the nation’s intake of reddish meat.

O’Donnel shared this look successful a cooking league past week, hours earlier she taught a people astatine the CulinAerie cooking schoolhouse astatine Thomas Circle. Tempeh is fundamentally fermented soybean cake, precocious successful macromolecule and debased successful carbohydrates and sodium. She began cooking with the nutrient substitute astir a decennary ago, and present it’s a favourite of hers.

“It has a toothy quality. Its texture is the key,” she says. But adjacent she soft-pedaled its quality the archetypal clip she made it for her 65-year-old steak-loving mom, whom she lovingly calls “Ms. London Broil.”

“Now she’s cooking from the publication erstwhile a week,” O’Donnel says.

Some radical accidental it tastes similar mushrooms, but the touring writer disagrees: “If you tin get beyond its contiguous appearance, you’ll find it’s a spirit chameleon.” She’ll usage it arsenic croutons for a crisp romaine crockery with cucumber and herb oregon arsenic a main constituent successful a Thai reddish curry. Here, she marinates it successful a soy condiment substance (30 minutes by the book, but 15 works to support the prep connected the abbreviated side) and pan-fries it to a salty chewiness.

The tempeh stars successful this combo of sandwich classics -- the hoagie and the muffuletta -- adjacent to her heart. Its onion-olive salad, provolone food and garlic-rubbed hoagie-roll interior marque it a important weeknight meal. O’Donnel suggests serving it with baked kale chips – besides a look from the publication – oregon successful a greenish crockery with seasonal effect specified arsenic pears.

Tempeh is disposable successful the refrigerated lawsuit successful wellness nutrient stores and immoderate integrated markets. It tin beryllium frozen for months oregon refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Adapted from O'Donnel's "The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook" (2010), excerpted by statement with Da Capo Lifelong, a subordinate of the Perseus Books Group.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  490

• Fat

  23 g

• Saturated Fat

  4 g

• Carbohydrates

  58 g

• Sodium

  1490 mg

• Protein

  22 g

• Fiber

  6 g

• Sugar

  6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from O'Donnel's "The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook" (2010), excerpted by statement with Da Capo Lifelong, a subordinate of the Perseus Books Group.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick and Kim O'Donnel.