Need a dairy free main course? Moussaka (Vegan or Vegetarian, You Choose.) could be a super recipe to try. One portion of this dish contains roughly 28g of protein, 29g of fat, and a total of 596 calories. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 32% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes. If you have wine vinegar, tomato sauce, olive oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the potatoes you could follow this main course with the Sweet Potatoes Scones as a dessert.
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Making fake feta: Cube tofu into 1" cubes.Submerge in boiling water & simmer for about 5 minutes.
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Water
Feta Cheese
Tofu
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Drain.
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Whisk together water, miso, vinegar & salt.
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Vinegar
Water
Miso
Salt
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Whisk
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Add tofu to marinade. Stir gently and refrigerate. Marinate for at least 2 days - up to 1 week. Shake the container periodically.Before using, remove marinade from tofu & crumble tofu with fingers. Use within 2 weeks after it's been crumbled. Side note; my 2 year old actually likes this all by itself!From this point it should take about 3 hours:."Sweat" your eggplant slices in a single layer on towels by sprinkling generously with salt (kosher or regular) for 45 min - 1 hour, blotting every 15 min or so, flip after 30 min and salt other side. Rinse after eggplant has begun looking brown in color. then squeeze with hands to remove as much water as possible, finishing with a squeeze from some paper towels. Small batches of squeezing is necessary. Dip dried off eggplant slices in flour to lightly coat both sides. Fry in 1/4" oil until edges are lightly browned on one side + 2 minutes on the flip side.
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Eggplant
Marinade
All Purpose Flour
Dip
Water
Salt
Tofu
Cooking Oil
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Paper Towels
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Drain on towel or on cooling rack.While eggplant is sweating, preheat oven to 35
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Eggplant
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Line a baking sheet w/ parchment paper.
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Spread potatoes evenly and bake for 30 minutes.Also, while eggplant is sweating, for the "meat" sauce:.
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Eggplant
Potato
Sauce
Meat
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Oven
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Add boiling water to the TVP.
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Water
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Add in the worcestershire sauce and gently stir. In a pan, saute onion in 1 tsp oil until tender.
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Worcestershire Sauce
Onion
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Add garlic, continue to cook for 1-2 minutes over med low heat.
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Garlic
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Add TVP, vinegar, tomato sauce, oregano, parsley, salt, pepper and cinnamon. Stir.To assemble: Preheat oven to 400 degrees.Grease or oil an 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish that's at least 2" tall.Cover the bottom with 1/2 of the eggplant, then 1/2 of the potatoes, then 1/2 of the zucchini (uncooked), then all the meat mixture and 1/2 of the fake feta.Finish by layering the rest of the eggplant, potatoes, zucchini and "feta".
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Tomato Sauce
Cinnamon
Eggplant
Potato
Zucchini
Oregano
Parsley
Vinegar
Pepper
Feta Cheese
Meat
Salt
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Textured Vegetable Protein
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Bake for 1 hour.While it's baking, prepare the bechamel sauce which you will add to the moussaka and continue to cook until an hour is up:.Melt the oil or butter, whisk continuously as you add the flour, then slowly add the milk. Keep at it until it begins to thicken which will happen all of a sudden. When this happens, turn off the heat and add 1/4 C egg beater (optional) and the salt.
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Butter
All Purpose Flour
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Milk
Salt
Egg
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Oven
Whisk
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Whisk again just to mix.At this point it might be 20-30 minutes into cooking. Take out the moussaka and pour the bechamel sauce evenly to coat. Try to fill in any large gaps. If you have extra, just pour it on the middle, it should spread a little while cooking.
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Sauce
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Whisk
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Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon. Back into the oven it goes to complete the total of 1 hour cook time. Be sure the bechamel has a little bit of browning before taking it out just for looks.
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Cinnamon
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Let sit for 20 minutes before serving.If you want to make ahead, prepare dish and just don't make the bechamel sauce until you're ready to stick it in the oven. Same with freezing. No bechamel sauce for the freezer.