Add to: Recipe Box | Grocery List | Meal PlannerRecipe submitted by Kalpana Shankar (
kshankar@mail.biosis.org)
Sloppy StevesIngredients (use vegan versions): 1 lb firm tofu, frozen overnight, squeezed dry, and crumbled (you can also do this without
freezing, just squeeze dry and crumble)
1 large onion, chopped
1 large red or green pepper, chopped
2 tablespoon nutritional yeast (optional)
2 tablespoon soy sauce or tamari sauce
1.5 cups ketchup
2 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon brown sugar or sucanat or molasses
1 tablespoon vinegar (red or white)
2 tablespoon lemon juice
Your favorite hot sauce to taste
black pepper to taste
buns or bread or rice
Directions:Crumble tofu into non stick frying pan (or use an oil spray, or a little oil). Add onion, pepper, and nutritional yeast. Saute all three until tofu begins to brown (this part takes a while, but you don't need to brown if you don't want to). Add other ingredients, except buns. Simmer 10 minutes, stirring.
Serve on vegan bread or rice or buns.
Notes: you can add minced or grated carrot, leave out the vegetables, add minced celery, adjust the sweetening, whatever...
Serves: varies
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Nutrition Information: Almost no fat (except for that in tofu)
This was a surprisingly delicious dish. Guaranteed if served to meat eating friends, they would not miss the beef. Great with a salad with some avocado chunks. The texture and flavor contrasts nicely. The sauce was a little too sweet for our taste. Next time we make it we may eliminate the ketchup and use a jazzed-up tomato puree. If we come up with a good alternative I'll post it.
Archived comment by: bruce
After some experimentation I found if you alter a few of the ingredients, you just can't beat this recipe. Replace the 1.5 cups of ketchup with a combination of: 1/3 cup of ketchup, 1 cup of tomato puree (use a rich one like Muir Glen Organic), make up the remaining volume with tomato paste. About one heaping tbls. You want to keep the thickness of the ketchup, but reduce the sweetness. Instead of brown vegan sugar or sucanat, use molasses. There is something about the flavor that has a better balance. For the vinegar, go with vegan red wine vinegar. My familys hot sauce choice is Franks (or Durkee) Red Hot. I think the garlic in it adds the missing ingredient to the mix. Enjoy!
Archived comment by: bruce
This recipe was WAY too sweet! Next time I will try it with the tomato puree as was suggested in the othere comments. Besides that, it was good. I think toning down the sweetness will improve it to perfection! This is the first time I've actually had success cooking tofu.
Archived comment by: linda
Recipe sounds great, looking forward to trying it, (love anything with tofu in it). Can someone tell me more about nutritional yeast please? Cant seem to find it in Australia!! Thanks,
debbieg58@yahoo.comArchived comment by: debbie
I made this recipe tonight for dinner using Bruces suggestions. I just used regular tomato sauce and didn't have to add the tomato paste as it was just the right thickness. (I really squeezed ALL the water out of the tofu and maybe that is why the sauce wasn't thin.) This recipe is great. Even my child who hates sloppy Joes (er...sloppy Steves) ate one and liked it. I had unexpected company show up and I fixed one for each of them and they loved it too. This is enough to make 8 sloppy Steves. Thanks for the great recipe. By the way, who is Steve?
Archived comment by: lynne
I made this recipe tonight for dinner using Bruces suggestions. I just used regular tomato sauce and didn't have to add the tomato paste as it was just the right thickness. (I really squeezed ALL the water out of the tofu and maybe that is why the sauce wasn't thin.) This recipe is great. Even my child who hates sloppy Joes (er...sloppy Steves) ate one and liked it. I had unexpected company show up and I fixed one for each of them and they loved it too. This is enough to make 8 sloppy Steves. Thanks for the great recipe. By the way, who is Steve?
Archived comment by: lynne
This is a wonderful recipe. I recommend using half the recommended amounts of vinegar and sweetener and then adding more to taste. To save time use textured soy protein instead of tofu. Stay away from ketchup as most contain lots of corn syrup. Youre better off using tomato paste, sauce, and/or puree. Thanks for the great recipe!
Archived comment by: cara
I had to come back and give a report on this recipe. IT ROCKED! Man, I was craving sloppy joes so badly (5 months pregnant...go figure) and this sandwich totally hit the spot. I followed it to the tee. I served it on buns with a salad, and when it was gone, my family wanted more. The only thing missing for me was cole slaw and maybe some homemade french fries...next time I'll whip up a batch of both. I'm hosting a gathering in a few weeks...I've been looking for a stellar hot sandwich, and dis is it! I'm going to triple this recipe and watch it fly out of my kitchen. THANKS, SLOPPY STEVE! CCS
Archived comment by: chinaCatSunflower
DELICIOUS! When i saw that the name of it was sloppy steve my jaw dropped because i also have a sloppy joe recipe called sloppy steve! I call it that because of the Nick Jr. show, Blues Clues. The old host was named Steve, but he left and was replaced by, you guessed it, STEVE! I wonder if this recipe was inspired by the same thing?
Archived comment by: jenhas319
DELICIOUS! When i saw that the name of it was sloppy steve my jaw dropped because i also have a sloppy joe recipe called sloppy steve! I call it that because of the Nick Jr. show, Blues Clues. The old host was named Steve, but he left and was replaced by Joe... but steve was soo much betetr so i named a dinner in his memory. I wonder if this recipe was inspired by the same thing?
Archived comment by: jenhas319
This recipe is perfect if you use Bruces recommendations. It came out WONDERFUL!
Archived comment by: nancyk212
This is a great recipe. It was my first time to make a dish using tofu like this. I'll agree that it is a bit on the sweet side, but still gave it five stars because anyone can adjust that rather simply. Love the Sloppy Steves, I'm definately keeping this recipe around.
Archived comment by: spiritdancer
Great recipe. Like others, I substituted the ketchup. I used 16 ounces of tomato sauce. Next time, though, I will increase the tomato sauce (maybe double?) as I would have liked more sauce. I also used yellow mustard -- out of Dijon. Easy to make & very good. Didnt last long.
Archived comment by: lezly
Heck yeah - this is awesome! I, too, used Bruces suggestions, and while it was cooking i thought it was still going to be too sweet. But after we got it on some ezekiel sprouted buns, it was just right. I would say it makes about 5-6 servings. Great for leftovers on some rice or toasted bread! Thanks so much for the recipe and for the recommendations, I'm sure well be making this regularly now (my boyfriend said it was a *12* on a scale of 1 to 10!) Peace!
Archived comment by: moonshinecaroline
