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I’m sorry but tofu is not cheese nor does it taste anything like it, vegan cookbooks need to be better. Stop massacring time honored dishes with uncreative replacement ingredients (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by gueybana@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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You can’t just replace paneer with tofu and call a dish palak paneer you twat. Like replacing black beans with lentils and calling it black bean soup IT’S NOT THE SAME AND DOESN’T TASTE THE SAME.

I swear half the reason people hate veganism is the fucking half assed garbage cooking content put out by vegan incluencers.

‘Hi today I’m going to make a yummy vegan grilled cheese sandwich but instead of cheese I’m GOING TO USE FUCKING ELMER’S GLUE’ And This doesn’t just go for cheese

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[-] large_goblin@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

There are lots of different types of tofu with very different characteristics. In my supermarket I have at least 8 different types.

When I make a paneer style dish with tofu there's a type I buy that is very similar. It's pressed for extra firmness but in a way that does not make it more grainy like extra firm tofu normally is, keeping it smooth like paneer.

There's also types of tofu that melt and behave like other varieties of cheese.

If you have a better vegan paneer alternative just replace the tofu in the recipe with that. Recipes are there to be changed and adjusted.

[-] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah I second this. The more I think about it I think you could actually do a pretty good paneer substitution w/ silken Tofu and the right spice blend. I tend to just forget different tofu firmness exist because I can never eat enough extra firm tofu lol