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Insalata russa e "bacon"

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This dish has a really lovely mix of flavours, it's simple but very indulgent. You could, in theory, make the slaw and the "bacon" as separate dishes and eat them with something else. But I recommend this combination as it's really tasty!

Ingredients (2 people)#

  • Potatoes: 600 gr (but you can make as much as you want really)
  • Cabbage or savoy cabbage: around 20 strips
  • Mayonnaise: enough
  • Tempeh: 200 gr
  • Maple syrup: 2 tbsp
  • Soy sauce: 3 tbsp
  • Olive oil: 3 tbsp
  • Smoked paprika: 1-1.5 tbsp

Method#

  1. Start by marinating the tempeh. Cut the tempeh in stripes, like bacon
  2. Prepare a wide plastic container and pour the maple syrup, soy sauce, olive oil and paprika. Mix well. Then add the stripes of tempeh and mix well so that the marinade goes well all over and around the tempeh
  3. Put in the fridge for a minimum of 20 minutes
  4. In the meantime, prepare a pot of water and bring to boil, to cook the vegetables
  5. Peel the potatoes and cut them in small pieces, ready for the potatoes slaw salad. Once cut, put in the water and cook until tender
  6. Cut some of the cabbage's leaves into strips and put them in the pot of water to cook with the potatoes
  7. Once the vegetables are ready, put them aside and let them cool down
  8. Heat a non-stick pan and take the tempeh out of the fridge. Once the pan has warmed up, put the tempeh stripes in the pan at medium heat
  9. Cook the tempeh stripes until they become "bacon". Usually you need 5-8 minutes, turning it around every now and then
  10. When it forms a sort of bacon-style crust, it's ready. Be careful not to burn it!
  11. Now put the potatoes and cabbage in a large bowl and mix it up with the mayonnaise, as much as you want

Now everything is ready: serve the potatoes slaw salad with tempeh bacon on top.

Tips#

The tempeh bacon is a very good recipe to know, and you can reuse it in other occasions or dishes. The same applies to the potatoes slaw salad. So hopefully, this is a useful (and delicious) recipe to learn!