An impressive tasty mock egg salad from Hot For Food's Eggless Salad Sandwich
Makes 2 cups
Ingredients:
1 cup tofu, squeezed with paper towel, then crumbled
1 green onion, chopped
2 celery stalks, diced (stems trimmed and discarded)
1 tbsp nutritional yeast
1/8 tsp turmeric, paprika and cayenne
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1/4 cup Vegenaise
Black salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Toss all ingredients into a bowl and mix. Use this in a sandwich, over a bed of greens in a salad, with crackers as a snack, or even on its own.
Note: Because I halved the original recipe, I use half of a regular package of water-packed tofu. Store the other half in a container with fresh water and refrigerate. If you can find a package already separated (like this one), even better.
I made a couple of adjustments from the original recipe including: omitting the garlic since I think it's too overpowering - this coming from a garlic-lover. I also doubled the celery since it adds more crunch and natural salt from celery.
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The best salt for this recipe is black salt (which is pink and turns black when wet), also called Himalayan black salt or kala namak, a type of rock salt found mostly in the Himalayas. The smell of black salt is impressively pungent which comes from the sulphur in the salt producing that egg-like odor. This is the secret ingredient that makes tofu taste like eggs. I first learned this from the Happy Herbivore.
This salt is available online or, if you’re a local, by visiting Nina’s Indian & British Grocery And Restaurant, a favorite of ours. Bring your appetite, too, and try their chana masala and saag (they’ll do a vegan version by request) – by far the best Indian food in Orange County.
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