Thursday, 29 March 2012
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Product Review: Sol Cuisine Breakfast Patties
It was barely over a month ago when I first stumbled upon Sol Cuisine veggie burgers, and I've enjoyed trying many more of their products since. You may have seen my review of their black bean patties in my Easiest Super Bowl Dip Recipe Ever post.
One of the products from Sol that I was really excited to try was their breakfast patties, which are vegan and gluten free. Although I've been known to use vegan breakfast sausage in non-breakfast foods before, I kept it traditional this time with a classic tofu scramble.
Since the breakfast patties come frozen, I started by defrosting them in the oven at 350 degrees. While I was doing that, I sauteed some diced onion and red bell pepper in a bit of oil with salt and pepper. In a few minutes, the sausage patties were no longer frozen and I added them to the oiled pan with the onions and bell peppers. As the breakfast patties began to cook, I broke them apart with a wooden spoon into chunks of an appropriate size for tofu scramble.
I like my tofu scrambles not super scrambled, so I first hack up the block with a knife fresh out of the tofu press and then haphazardly mash it with a potato masher. I used three breakfast patties for a full block of tofu, which was a proportion that I'd recommend.
Most people make their tofu scramble with tumeric for color, but I don't buy tumeric because the ONLY thing I would use it for is to color scrambles, and I find that to be a waste. Instead, my scrambles get their color from a combination of my favorite scramble spices:
- Nutritional yeast
- Garlic powder
- Salt
- Pepper
- Cumin
- Curry powder (just a pinch... my secret ingredient in many recipes and perfect for coloring the scramble)
- Cayenne powder
The breakfast patties worked perfectly in place of sausage in this scramble, with that nice peppery kick that all good breakfast "meats" have, and the texture was excellent also. I usually mix soyrizo or some other faux breakfast meat into my scrambles, and Sol Cuisine's Breakfast Patties will be my new go-to when it's scramble time.
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This post is contributed from the Vegan Vagrant!
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Comments (9)
all of that looks good but not healthy
That looks really good!! I've always wanted to try tofu scramble.
I've tried various fake meats and have yet to find a good sausage replacement :/ I've never had real sausage so I'm always unsure of whether it's supposed to taste that way, or if it's just a nasty attempt at fake patties.
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looks good and looks pretty healthy to me, though I haven't looked at the back of the box
@spentandsickk@xanga - Omg you've never had a real sausage?
@maybmaybnot@xanga - I've been a vegetarian for as long as I could remember..and tasting fake meat makes me feel like I was never meant to eat the real stuff in the first place! haha.
@spentandsickk@xanga - Wow that is cool (unique). For the first 18 years of my life I ate pork and boy-sausage is some good stuff! Bacon is pretty damn good too. Very fatty and salty but very tasty. Then when I was around the age of 19 I decided to stop eating pork for health reasons. I sometimes long for it now, but I resist it. But the funny thing is whenever I taste it accidentally now, like the other day at Golden Corral, it tastes awful. Pork smells kinda funky now too. Go figure.
wow,I want to eat.must be very delicious. asian girl
It sounds like you need more fat, not less- because you tend to snack a lot and you gravitate towards fatty foods.
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