Sloppy Steves
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
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...
SO HOW'D IT GO?
I made it exactly as the recipe instructs and it was great! I was a little disappointed that I read the notes section AFTER I had cooked it and saw the carrots suggestion. I had some and next time I want to add them definitely.
My boyfriend is also having a hard time liking tofu and other mock meats, so I think I might try lentils maybe next time too.
One of my mom's *specialties* while I was growing up was Sloppy Joes. I loved her sloppy joes. In fact this last summer while my stepdaughter was here visiting, I made her my mom's recipe for sloppy joes and she adored it. Well.. sorry Ma, but it's Sloppy Steve's from now on. :) I think these tasted better than sloppy joes.
Thanks for a great recipe! Putting it in with my favorites.
My wife and I make this recipe over and over again. It is fantastic as written. The only modification we make (sometimes) is to add a tablespoon of Hoisen Sauce. Excellent!
I made some changes but this was SO good! I used only a half a block of tofu, added a can of kidney beans, no peppers, braggs instead of soy sauce, and left out the lemon juice, vinegar and hot sauce. I also cut back on the ketchup and didn't add any sugar because the ketchup made it sweet enough. It was lacking in spice though so I added some cayenne, chili powder, cumin, and oregano. Cant wait to eat the left overs ;)b
This was really good! Since everyone said it was too sweet I only used a cup of ketchup and 1 tsp of brown sugar and I enjoyed the results!
I made these today for lunch, they were GREAT!!! So easy to prepare, thanks for the recipe!!!
delicious!! i used diced tomatoes and pureed them in a food processor to make it thicker... a cup of that and 1/2 cup ketchup. used kidney beans & 1/2 block of tofu. so good - thank you!
I LOVED THIS!!! My meatguzzling roommates are tearing up my leftovers now... I didn't have any tofu so I threw in some soy crumbles and red kidney beans.. I also didn't have celery or lemon juice or the sweetener so I just left those out.. Had a cup of spaghetti sauce that I had to get rid of so I subbed that for 1 cup of ketchup... This is awesome. I made fried jalapenos and put them on top with a toasted wheat bun.. Delicious =)
This was a good base! I didn't really measure, but probably added less ketchup, and more soy sauce. I think it could use some spices..maybe chili powder. This is a good sauce because I don't like to buy bbq sauce (even though it's so good). I used tofu and added lots of cabbage (inspired by:
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=20869.new#new), and it turned out well. :)
These were pretty yummy! I've been eating them for lunch all week and have not gotten sick of them.
Couple of notes. It makes a lot! I used kidney beans instead of tofu and ended up adding three 15oz cans. I kept adding more and more beans because it was very "soupy". I think it is too much ketchup...otherwise the flavor was good. It is hard for me to follow recipes like this exactly. I just kept adding things here and there until it tasted right.
Yum, these were great. I used "ground" seitan. I think you could use any ground meat substitute with success-crumbled tofu/tempeh, seitan, TVP, commercial veggie crumbles. Reminded me of the Sloppy Joe's my Mom made as a kid. I did follow Bruce's suggestions. Would make again exactly the same way.
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