Description
This vegan "pollo" guisado is a call to home with a plant based twist. Bursting with the same Latin flavors, high in protein and easy to make.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 block tempeh, cut into thick strips
- 1/2 red onion, finely diced
- 1/2 green bell pepper, finely diced
- 1/2 red bell pepper, finely diced
- 1 stalk celery, finely diced
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- ` Juice of one lime
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 tbsp gluten free soy sauce or tamari
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable broth
- 1 1/2 tsp sazon
- 1/2 tsp adobo
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp dry oregano
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp vinegar
Instructions
- Optional, but recommended, steam tempeh in a pan with water for 10 minutes to cut bitterness. Remove and allow to cool as you prep your other ingredients.
- Remove and allow to cool. Place tempeh in a bowl and add sugar, adobo, sazón, pepper and oregano and top with veggies.
- Then pour over lime juice and soy sauce.
- Genly toss together and allow to sit and marinade for 30 minutes to an hour.
- Once done marinading, heat up a pan to medium heat and add oil. Scoop tempeh out of marinade and add to the heated pan.
- Carefully saute and brown both sides of tempeh.
- While tempeh is cooking, add tomato paste to remaining marinade and stir together.
- Scrape out marinade and add to tempeh in the pan. Stir and saute for about 3 minutes or until fragrant.
- Add vegetable broth and bring mixture to a boil then reduce to a simmer. Allow to cook and simmer on low for 30 minutes.
- If pan gets dry, add a little more water to make it more saucy again.
- Once tempeh is cooked, add vinegar and turn off heat. Stir gently to combine all the flavors together.
- Serve as desired. Garnish with extra herbs like cilantro if available.
Notes
- This dish is great if paired with some arroz con gandule and avocado. Obviously, feel free to pair this however you prefer!
- If you don’t have access to adobo seasoning feel free to make your own with this recipe here.
- If you don’t have access to sazon seasoning feel free to make your with this recipe here. If worse comes to worse, you can add 1/2 tsp cumin and 1-2 tsp of smoked paprika as a replacement.
- If you wish to use another mock meat other than tempeh, thaw before using and marinate and cook as recommended in the instructions above.
