Reddit reviews Butler Foods, Soy Curls, 8 Ounce

Small quantities are cheaper from Amazon. Large quantities are cheaper directly from Butler Foods.

Butler Foods, Soy Curls, 8 Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048OBT04/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_wCaHDbEX8668P

Southern soy curls recipe (I don't have an airfryer, so I just cook them in the oven at 400 until crispy):
https://healthyslowcooking.com/vegan-air-fryer-southern-fried-chicken-soy-curls/?epik=dj0yJnU9SjdoeVlyeWZtZ0ZlTDRFbi1oby03cG9Ha3NKRzhQUlcmbj1EejU5aVlXR1prSWkwX0FDQlFsbTRBJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRjJFRERZ

Cheeze sauce recipe:

https://www.brandnewvegan.com/recipes/amazing-vegan-cheese-sauce?epik=dj0yJnU9LWdLdWFuZUJ0ZFdFT0d4ekoza1ZBYVlpMHJUWm55RjAmbj1rbmoza2JxZ05MOHNGbVJ1ME1TYWNnJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRjFaeFhR

Yeah, I should probably keep trying with seitan, too. I’ve had good seitan at restaurants.

I got my Soy Curls off Amazon. They're dehydrated strips of soy protein made from non-GMO soybeans (which is good because the GMO kind are sprayed with Roundup and may be unhealthy). They’re cooked until they're soft, then processed by a machine that breaks them into strands. Then they're slowly dried at a low temperature.

To prepare them at home, you soak them in water for at least 10 minutes to rehydrate them. Then you flavor and cook them the same way you’d cook meat. There are lots of recipes on the Google that use them. I’m hoping to make something pepperoni-like next.

https://www.amazon.com/BUTLER-FOODS-Soy-Curls-OZ/dp/B0048OBT04

I know it's not exactly the same as TVP, but soy curls are made from the whole bean and are quite easy/fun to use in cooking :)

I buy them from Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/Butler-Soy-Curls-oz-Bag/dp/B0048OBT04

Soy curls are the bomb, especially when you soak them in something tasty and not just plain water

Hey there! Super rad that you're interested in making your dishes for your friends!

There are all sorts of different ways to replace meats in a dish, depending on how the meat is prepared.

For a shredded breast meat sorta meat, I highly recommend soy curls. They absorb sauce like magic!

Ground meat is very easy to replace, both in the refrigerator and frozen sections of many grocery stores carrying ground soymeat, both seasoned and unseasoned.

Larger chunks of meat, you'd do well for frozen brands like Gardein, as well as refrigerated mock meats like Field Roast.

For fish, a lot of it comes down to getting that fishy flavor right, and there are many strategies for that!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0048OBT04?pc_redir=1412272324&robot_redir=1

I make this all the time in the summer. Super quick, super easy. Only hard thing to get, occasionally, is soy curls (this link is the kind I use) - a lot of grocery stores have them but you may need to go to an asian market to find them if you're someplace with low demand for them.

Very first: slice up your cabbage hopefully better than me, pour enough apple cider vinegar to lightly coat everything, then add enough veganaise to coat and then toss splash of BBQ in there. Shake it up and let it sit for as long as possible - an hour is great. You can eat it right away, though. Just gets better if you let it soak in.

1 Bag Soy Curls soaked in cold veggie broth. Drain it after ten minutes or so and mix th a bit of BBQ sauce, let it set/marinade for a bit. You can skip that part and cook right after you drain, however.

Fry the soaked curls in a pan until hot then dump BBQ sauce in there until it's as wet and BBQy as you like it.

Throw that shit on a bun.

Fries was just generic seasoning mixes (Trader Joe's) on top of rosemary frozen fries. Chips are great too. Or eat two sammies, I'm not going to stop you.

I've been doing research about this all weekend!

Gardein and other's like it make their soy products textured like meat by changing the molecular structure of the plant proteins so they are more stringy like animal proteins. They use an extruder to create the end product of fake meat which is why it's not really possible to recreate at home.

While yes, seitan does come slightly close to meat texture, it's still more spongy and bread-y than Gardein.

So what to do. WELL there is a vegan restaurant in my town that has these devil 'wings' and sometimes buffalo 'chicken pops' that have a really great mouth feel, very close to chicken.

I wondered and wondered how they did this. So I experimented. I got ahold of some TVP and tried mixing that with wheat gluten and the texture was almost there but still not the same. So I asked the restaurant (under the guise of food allergies. I felt pretty sneaky) what was in their devil wings. They said they were soy based gluten free.

Hmmm so no vital wheat gluten after all. So it must just be all TVP, I think to myself. But the TVP I have is in such tiny mince chunks, that can't be right. So I do more digging. There are BIGGER soya chunks out there--> some in smaller nuggets some in bigger fillets.

Whaaaaat how did I not know this was a thing. So I look at these chunks(more so the fillets) and THEY ARE THE DEVIL WINGS! HORAY! But where can I buy these big pieces of soya? I look and look and look and there is only really one company that sells the large soy pieces and that is So Soya in different flavors. A little expensive for me, so I plan on going with the chunks to try first. I looked up a bunch of videos and recipes on how to cook them and you reconstitute them in water or brother, wring out the excess liquid and then use them in place of chicken or beef slices. I wish they were more readily available in markets, but they seem to be something mainly used in Asian cousins(mainly Indian).

TLDR: Soya chunks, fillets, curls. You can buy them from So Soya for the bigger pieces or the chunks are sold online or in asian markets(curls here). They come dried, so you reconstitute them with either broth or water, squeeze out the excess liquid, and use them like chicken.

It's much more like these, you just cook it and cut it to look like meat. We are calling this one a "duck" not a beef, since it's sweet like a duck. If I remember right from my non-vegan days.

We love Quorn. However, if you want "This tastes great! Oh crap did I just eat some chicken?" experience check out Soy Curls. I ordered a veggie dish w/ Soy Curls and took it back complaining that they used chicken in their vegetarian dish. They were all 0_o back at me.

Wow, they actually sell it in stores near you? Lucky!

Butler Soy Curls, 8 oz. Bag https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048OBT04/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_N22KxbV2RMA68