Quorn and Tofu

I had some Quorn kievs from Waitrose last week and they were delicious!
Hana

I regularly eat Quorn and tofu. Both are high protien.

I like a nice veggie fry up and have eaten veggie sausages for years. You need to experiement with the brands and recipes.

I like peppery Cumberland sausages. My favorie is the Cauldron one, but they have recently increased tha carb content of a sausage, I think by making them a bit bigger and reducing teh number in a pack from 5 to 4. Quorn sausages are slightly ower carb. I tend to experiement more when they are on those BOGOF offers Quorn also do freezer packs of saisages, which are very nice.

Sliced smoked fried tofu makes an acceptable alternative to bacon.

Tofu has a bland flavour and ideally needs to be marinaded to give it some flavour - trawl the internet for recipies. You can also buy marinaded tofu.

I have discovered tofu shakes - I have made a lovely lemon cheesecake flavour shake as breakfast and plan to try a coffee frapuccino shake for breakfast tomorrow morning.

There are differnt kinds of tofu for different things, experiement.

Some of the salt levels in veggie sausages are higher than those in pork/beef sausages !

I also buy deep fried bean curd from the chinese supermarket. Bloody lovely stuff - just slice it up and stir fry it with veg and your choice of sauce.

UPB and I eat tofu or quorn with pretty much every evening meal. As I am not the chef of the household I'm sure his input will be of more use to you, but I cannot stress enough how versatile the two products are. Tofu is trickier to get right than quorn, but using chunks of it as the meat alternative in spaghetti bolognese for example, is wonderful. You have to buy the non-silken blocks of tofu, freeze them, then defrost in boiling water or a microwave, thoroughly drain them, cut them into small cubes and add to your sauce of choice. Because the freezing will have changed the texture of the tofu, the sauce really soaks in. I leave the tofu simmering in the sauce for a few minutes just to thoroughly infuse it.

I also like to add capers, black olives and chunky sauteed garlic to the tomato sauce.

Good times.

i have quorn sausages,
i put quorn pieces in curry
and i put quorn mince in lasange and spag bol.
i have quorn kiev bites.
and i have the asda veg lasagne

My GF is a veggie, and she's just found Quorn mini scotch eggs. I've pinched a couple when she's not looking ( :wink: ) and they are bl00dy lovely! Nicer than the real thing... (Did I REALLY just say that?!?)

She's also a big fan (and now so am I) of Linda McCartney Sausages.

Shy girl
I can give you a low carb recipe for a "curry"It's not VERY low, because it's with lentils, but absoluteely lovely
pm me if you want it
Hana