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Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Pasta with Garlic Soy curls. 20 Gm of Protein. Vegan Tuscan Garlic “Chicken” And pasta. Vegan Recipe Can be Soyfree with Mushrooms or Seitan. 30 Mins. Gluten-free and nutfree option Jump to Recipe
This Luscious 30 Minute pasta is a vegan version of a dish I used to get in some restaurant more than a decade ago. Wow that was specific 😉 Anywho, the Creamy garlicky sauce with sun dried tomato some grilled chickin gets a vegan makeover! The Soy curls and soaked in garlic veggie broth, then toasted with more garlic and freshly ground black pepper. Then added to the cream base. Sun dried tomato, herbs, fresh thyme, pasta such as farfalle or fettuccine. Bliss.
This sauce and pasta are flexible to taste and ingredients. Use gluten-free pasta if needed, some nutfree non dairy cream for no nuts and use seitan, tofu or mushrooms to sub soy curls.
Easy, Quick and Delicious! Lets make this Luscious Meal.
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Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Pasta with Garlic Soy curl
Ingredients
- 7 to 8 oz farfalle or fettuccine other pasta, , cooked according to package instructions
- 3 oz soy curls, , or other chickin substitutes or use mushrooms for soyfree
- 1/2 cup veggie broth or vegan chikin flavored broth
- 3/4 tsp poultry seasoning, , or 1/4 tsp each of sage, onion powder, garlic powder, thyme,
- 2 tsp oil
- 4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp poultry seasoning, , optional
- 1.5 cup cashew milk, (1/3 cup cashews blended with 1.25 cups of water), Use 2 cups for saucier(1/2 cup cashews + 1.5 cups water)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp each of oregano, ,thyme or 1 tsp italian blend
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup or more chopped sun dried tomato
- 3 to 5 oz baby spinach, or chopped spinach
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast or 2-3 tbsp vegan parm
- fresh thyme or basil for garnish
Instructions
- Heat the water or broth until just about boiling. Combine the soy curls with boiling broth, garlic powder, poultry seasoning in bowl. (Or soak in hot chikin flavored broth). Let sit for 10 mins, stir once or twice in between. You can also use other chikin subs, seitan. If using mushrooms or pressed tofu, skip this step.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Squeeze the soy curls to remove excess water and add to the skillet. Cook to brown some edges (3 to 5 mins, longer with mushrooms).
- Add garlic, black pepper and mix in. Add poultry seasoning and smoked paprika. Add other veggies if using and cook for 2 mins. (red bell pepper or zucchini work well).
- Add cashew milk, salt, garlic, onion powder, oregano, thyme and mix well. Bring to a boil.
- Add the sun dried tomato, spinach, nutritional yeast or vegan parm and bring to a boil. Taste and adjust salt, flavor (add more italian herbs if neeses). Add some lemon zest or more nutritional yeast/vegan parm Fold in the cooked pasta and toss to coat. Take of heat, cover and let sit for minute. Garnish with fresh herbs, Serve with garlic bread.
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Nutrition
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Delicious and unusual. My first use of soy curls and they came a bit soggy, as did the pasta which I’d cooked for too long. So there’s room for improvement but this will be made again! Thanks for broadening my horizons.
Awesome!hmm soy curls absorb liquid and get flavorful. if you want them more chewy, then remove them fromthe pan after pan frying and add back towards the end to simmer for just a minute.
It might not be an identical product, but it looks alike. It’s also 100% non-GMO soy but this specific brand you used isn’t available to me, I don’t live in the US. Still it’s delicious and this being the first time I’ve ever used such a product, I might have needed to drain it further. I’m happy with the result anyway. Plus I couldn’t find my NY this time, too, so next time I’ll use it and cook the pasta al dente so the flavour will be even richer. All good.
ah that might be it. yes try it with variations so you can get the product to be the right texture
I just had it for lunch – normally I don’t keep pasta for the next day but this was an exception – delicious! and no problems with texture. I devoured it.
This recipe sounds amazing! I’m going to make it tonight, would any other milk work though? Did my food shop and forgot the cashew milk, I only have sweetened soya and almond milk in!
sweetened milk wont work. Do you have cashews on hand or cashew butter? you can blend the cashews with water and make cashew milk and use
Wow, this was really, really good!!! I couldn’t stop eating it!
thanks!!
I would love to make this, however, for the life of me I cannot find soy curls anywhere here in South East Michigan where I live. Where do you buy soy curls from? Can they be easily made with other ingredients?
Also, can you use commercial cashew milk?
I would love to make this for dinner tonight.
you might have to order them online on amazon.
or use a different chickin sub like seitan, or use mushrooms
yes you cnuse commercial unsweetened cashew milk
How do you come up with this stuff?? Richa, you are amazing. We all loved the creaminess and unique flavor profile. Thanks for broadening our pallets.
its a veganized version of a chiken dish 🙂 and i amped it up with flavors i thought would work 🙂
Do you need to soak the cashews first?
you can for quicker blending and smoother sauce.
This was delicious. I used Ripple plant based half and half and fresh Swiss chard left in my garden. I also dry my own sun dried tomatoes and pack them in olive oil so lots of tomato flavor. Thanks for all your great recipes.
awesome!
Loved this. Cheated and used Beyond Meat Grilled chicken strips. Great flavor. Love soy curls too so I’ll try it with those when all the kids are home.
oh yes, those strips will work just fine too!
Made this tonight. So good!! The sauce was very satisfying. I have never made a cashew cream sauce before. Always thought it was too time consuming but I found a short cut on prepping the cashews. Worked perfectly.
awesome!
This was an excellent dinner and the stir fry/sear of the soy curls was a great touch. Five star recipe at our home!
awesome thanks!