Recipe: rad’s secret-formula vegan sweet and sour soup

[Guest guest]

Okay, one of my pet peeves is recipes that do long lists of fancy

ingredients and spices I usually don't have instead of just keeping it

simple. So heaving my own rule completely out the window, here's the

soup I've been doing recently. Kind of an Asian-style sweet and sour

experiment, but I've gotten seriously hooked on it. I have no

difficulty picturing tofu, scallion, carrot shreds, or coconut milk in

it too, but it's still at least partly a quick-fix lazy man's soup.

Experiment freely, but the tamarind and strip shreds are key, and the

base is the main thing; you could probably even use ramen noodles,

rice, or plain rice noodles if you had to and adjust for the flavor

packs (sweeten some). Be forewarned, you will make it again, probably

immediately following the first batch, so buy more than one soup pack.

This takes a basic decent noodle soup mix and installs warp drive.

 

rad's secret-formula vegan sweet and sour soup

(serves one)

 

2 cp (500 ml) water (2 parts H, 1 part O ;-) )

1 handful (1/4 cup, 40 ml) peanuts, crushed in measuring cup

1 1.6 oz/45g packet Thai Kitchen rice noodle soup mix (your choice

flavor, spring onion works, I like to break up the noodles in the

package first)

1/2 pkg Primal Strips fake jerky piece (flavored gluten), pre-pulled

into thin shreds with fork

1-1/2 tsp (8 ml) tamarind concentrate

1 tbs (15 ml) tamari, teriyaki, or soy sauce

1/4 tsp (1 ml) lemon grass paste (optional)

2-3 shakes lemon pepper seasoning (1/4 tsp, 1 ml?)

2-3 shakes curry powder (1/4 tsp, 1 ml?)

2-3 shakes ginger powder (1/4 tsp, 1 ml?)

 

Line up the ingredients and shred the primal strip. Boil the water,

add peanuts, soup noodles & flavor packets, and remaining ingredients

for about three minutes per directions.

 

Anyone who tries it, let me know what you think.

[Guest guest]

Be forewarned, you will make it again, probably

> immediately following the first batch, so buy more than one soup

pack. > This takes a basic decent noodle soup mix and installs warp

drive.

 

Shoot! Now that's what I'm talkin about!

This recipe and the chickpea stew recipe that Laura tried have been

added to our files section. Thanks, you 2 for sharing those with us.

If anyone has a favorite recipe or just tried a good one, then let us

know please and post it..we appreciate it. It gives all of us more

options and gets the idears stirrin and flowin. What are Yall going

to make over the weekend?? Tia.

 

Cheers,

S.

 

 

 

 

>

> rad's secret-formula vegan sweet and sour soup

> (serves one)

>

> 2 cp (500 ml) water (2 parts H, 1 part O ;-) )

> 1 handful (1/4 cup, 40 ml) peanuts, crushed in measuring cup

> 1 1.6 oz/45g packet Thai Kitchen rice noodle soup mix (your choice

> flavor, spring onion works, I like to break up the noodles in the

> package first)

> 1/2 pkg Primal Strips fake jerky piece (flavored gluten), pre-pulled

> into thin shreds with fork

> 1-1/2 tsp (8 ml) tamarind concentrate

> 1 tbs (15 ml) tamari, teriyaki, or soy sauce

> 1/4 tsp (1 ml) lemon grass paste (optional)

> 2-3 shakes lemon pepper seasoning (1/4 tsp, 1 ml?)

> 2-3 shakes curry powder (1/4 tsp, 1 ml?)

> 2-3 shakes ginger powder (1/4 tsp, 1 ml?)

>

> Line up the ingredients and shred the primal strip. Boil the water,

> add peanuts, soup noodles & flavor packets, and remaining ingredients

> for about three minutes per directions.

>

> Anyone who tries it, let me know what you think.