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Vegan Curry Beef Crumbles Recipe | Mary’s Test Kitchen

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Vegan Curry Beef Crumbles Recipe | Mary’s Test Kitchen

This vegan curry “beef” recipe was made as the filling for veganized Chinese curry beef buns (ga lei ngo yuk bao). This plant-based version is very similar in taste and texture to the non-vegan one and I find that it makes a great tasty topping for rice or noodles too!

For a soy-free version, please see the NOTES at the bottom.

Curry Beefless Buns Recipe: https://youtu.be/JFblNpDwKdU?list=PL6QDlGTnYxpG6_BXIGKnpzQxRqWVbDYCE

VEGAN CURRY BEEF-LESS CRUMBLES RECIPE
Makes about 2 cups

INGREDIENTS (US)

1 cup hot water
1 teaspoon marmite (or dark miso paste)
3/4 cup TVP (texturized vegetable protein)

1/3 cup cold or room temperature water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 tablespoon hoisin sauce*
2 teaspoons soy sauce (or tamari/liquid aminos)

1-2 teaspoons coconut oil (or your choice of cooking oil)
1 cup chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
3-4 shiitake mushrooms, rehydrated from dried
1 1/2 tablespoons madras curry powder
1/4 teaspoon red chili flakes (optional)
1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon sea salt or to taste
pinch of black pepper or to taste

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INGREDIENTS (Metric)

237ml hot water
5ml marmite (or dark miso paste)
177cc TVP (texturized vegetable protein) [60g]

80ml cold or room temperature water
15cc cornstarch
8ml hoisin sauce*
10ml soy sauce (or tamari/liquid aminos)

5-10ml coconut oil (or your choice of cooking oil)
130g chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
3-4 shiitake mushrooms, rehydrated from dried (10g dried mushrooms)
22cc madras curry powder
1.25cc red chili flakes (optional)
1.25cc – 2.5cc sea salt or to taste
pinch of black pepper or to taste

*Hoisin sauce can be vegan-friendly or not depending on the brand. The brand I use is Koon Chun.

DIRECTIONS
Dissolve the marmite in 1 cup hot water. Add the TVP and stir to combine and set aside to rest. Separately, combine water, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and cornstarch. Stir until the cornstarch is dissolved and set aside.

Heat oil in a pan over medium high heat. When hot, add the onions, garlic, and mushroom. Cook while stirring for about 3-4 minutes.

Stir in the TVP mixture, curry powder, salt, chili flakes, and black pepper. Cook while stirring for about 2 minutes. If the mixture is very dry, add a tablespoon or two of water to prevent the spices from sticking and burning.

Stir the cornstarch mixture once more before adding it to the pan. Mix well. The liquid will quickly thicken. When it does, turn off the heat and continue mixing for a minute. Taste and adjust for salt and pepper.

Serve with rice, noodles, or make some Curry “Beef” Buns (https://youtu.be/JFblNpDwKdU?list=PL6QDlGTnYxpG6_BXIGKnpzQxRqWVbDYCE).

NOTES
For soy-free: use about 1 1/2 cups lentils instead of TVP and skip the water. Instead of soy sauce and hoisin, go for liquid aminos/tamari and ketchup.

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  1. Tessi Vegan

    Such a nice idea ! ;)

  2. Tessi Vegan

    I found this recipe very interesting to make and sure to eat 🙂 ! 

  3. Deborah Woods

    Looks so delicious! I like the idea of the buns. I'll have to go looking :-)

  4. Deborah Woods

    Nooo! I can't find the recipe! Can you put up a link to the Curry beef buns? Please! :-)

  5. Lesley Victoria

    Hey Mary! Another amazing idea! Where do you buy your marmite? Have you ever used better than bullion broth? I suspect it could be maybe similar, it's a concentrated paste and it won best broth on America's test kitchen (even though it's an omni show, I still find I get great ideas!). I'm thinking marmite is the same as veggimite(spelling?), I had friends make that on toast for me, it'd be great in your application but I silently suffered while my Aussie friends exclaimed how good veggimite was, lol!!!!! Not really a good toast topping!!!!

  6. Trisha Adomai

    Yum that looks beautiful! I love your channel, your recipes and humour are awesome. Hmm I think I'd make a sweet potato pie with them?

  7. EyeStabbingYum

    How'd you make the bun part?

  8. Cheap Lazy Vegan

    I wish you could cook for me. For reals.

  9. simply.s

    What could i use instead of TVP?

  10. Darcy van de Laar

    You are the queen of making me hungry! I've got a pastie from the local vegan friendly bakery heating up in the oven, but now I can't help but wish I'd bought one of their curry pies instead…
    Oh well, maybe I'll make this for tomorrow night's dinner instead! Can I ask, where did you did those amazing serving plates? They seem perfect for so many dishes, especially ones with many sides like your Vegan Hainanese Rice (which I'm dying to make btw)

  11. guppiefishlover

    I love your videos and I think it's so kind of you to have subtitles for those with hearing disabilities. Great recipe!

  12. Green Life In Dublin

    This looks very similar to my "mince" which also consists of mushrooms and soy mince and sometimes chickpea flour… l need to check out that TVP thingy, l didn't even know such thing existed :)

  13. spacegirlz

    Looks yummy! Can't wait for the curry meatless buns recipe.

  14. Vegan Straight Edge x

    They also sell tvp in Mexican supermarkets here in the L.A. area 

  15. André Luís Specht

    Ohhh that looks so tasty! This is the first non Brazilian recipe that I see using TVP. This product is so popular in Brazil. I wonder why it is not very used in other countries. Anyway, thanks for sharing! :*

  16. Tittle Eye

    Looking delicious!!! <3

  17. Hayley2359

    Hi Mary,
    Just wondering if you've got a recipe for those Vegan buns in this video at all?
    This looks delish – Def going to try it 🙂 Thank you for sharing x

  18. fUP420babe

    i think it would make a great filling for samosa's too! Another great thing about marmite ( i eat it all the time, reminds me of my english grandma) for vegans, is that marmite has B12 in it!

  19. Abby Kuo

    i actually have always had a question,
    can corn starch be GMO? i have never seen unGMO labels on corn starch packaging. perhaps my grocery store is just to small?? lol