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atomdrache) wrote2017-10-05 09:03 pm
atomdrache) wrote2017-10-05 09:03 pm
Lazy Bastard Soup
Sometimes you just can't be arsed.
But you're hungry.
The essence of this recipe is the combination of TVP (textured vegetable protein), a vegetable bouillon of your choice, and leftover rice from your fridge. So here's what you do.
Ingredients
This is highly flexible. Really you can put whatever you want in it, as long as it rehydrates well with hot water. If you don't have rice, you could use bulgur or something (though in that case let it sit for 20 minutes to let the bulgur hydrate. I have not yet tested the bulgur variant and will update this post once I do.) As for the bouillon, I use vegetable Better Than Bouillon, and I highly recommend it; the name is not an exaggeration. You could also use miso, doenjang, or any other savory salty thing you like.
To make it a little more like miso soup, for example, you could use miso to flavor the broth and chop up some green onions, although I think the act of chopping onions and washing a cutting board suffices to negate the laziness that this recipe is all about. If you could be bothered to do that, perhaps you'd cook something else.
Then again, this is a pretty satisfying soup and maybe you just have a craving for lazy bastard soup with onions. I'm not your mom. Do whatever the hell you want.
Preparation
This is trivial, which is the entire point of this recipe. Break up the rice and fill your soup bowl about a third of the way. Pour on some dry TVP, however much you like. Expect it to expand. Fold up the seaweed several times and shred it over the bowl. Then add everything else.
Fill a kettle, put it on the stove, and boil it. Once it boils, just pour it into the bowl until you have something that resembles soup. Stir it around a bit to break up the rice. By the time you finish doing that, the TVP will have already mostly hydrated. No need to microwave the rice first since the water heats it right up.
And now it's soup. Enjoy, you lazy bastard.
(Note: I assume you have a ceramic soup bowl, or at least something which can handle having boiling water poured into it. Just make sure of that, okay? Don't burn yourself. We're trying to be lazy here, not stupid.)
But you're hungry.
The essence of this recipe is the combination of TVP (textured vegetable protein), a vegetable bouillon of your choice, and leftover rice from your fridge. So here's what you do.
Ingredients
- About a cup of leftover rice from your refrigerator (i.e. already cooked)
- About half a cup of textured vegetable protein
- About half a teaspoon of vegetable bouillon
- One sheet of toasted seaweed
- A quantity of ground pepper, to taste (preferably fresh)
- Green chile, to taste
- Nutritional yeast, to taste
- A few mL of flaxseed oil
This is highly flexible. Really you can put whatever you want in it, as long as it rehydrates well with hot water. If you don't have rice, you could use bulgur or something (though in that case let it sit for 20 minutes to let the bulgur hydrate. I have not yet tested the bulgur variant and will update this post once I do.) As for the bouillon, I use vegetable Better Than Bouillon, and I highly recommend it; the name is not an exaggeration. You could also use miso, doenjang, or any other savory salty thing you like.
To make it a little more like miso soup, for example, you could use miso to flavor the broth and chop up some green onions, although I think the act of chopping onions and washing a cutting board suffices to negate the laziness that this recipe is all about. If you could be bothered to do that, perhaps you'd cook something else.
Then again, this is a pretty satisfying soup and maybe you just have a craving for lazy bastard soup with onions. I'm not your mom. Do whatever the hell you want.
Preparation
This is trivial, which is the entire point of this recipe. Break up the rice and fill your soup bowl about a third of the way. Pour on some dry TVP, however much you like. Expect it to expand. Fold up the seaweed several times and shred it over the bowl. Then add everything else.
Fill a kettle, put it on the stove, and boil it. Once it boils, just pour it into the bowl until you have something that resembles soup. Stir it around a bit to break up the rice. By the time you finish doing that, the TVP will have already mostly hydrated. No need to microwave the rice first since the water heats it right up.
And now it's soup. Enjoy, you lazy bastard.
(Note: I assume you have a ceramic soup bowl, or at least something which can handle having boiling water poured into it. Just make sure of that, okay? Don't burn yourself. We're trying to be lazy here, not stupid.)
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If we're not really convinced by the idea of Textured Vegetable Protein as a thing, are there any reasonable substitutes? Can you throw firm tofu at it or something? (I also have some Better Than Bouillon but it's one of the animal varieties, which if I don't mind that presumably should also work in this case…)
Also, electric kettles are probably really good for this.
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TVP is widely available. I was even able to find it in rural New Mexico. The Bob's Red Mill variety, at the very least, ought to be around somewhere.