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General Tso’s Soy Curls! Easy weeknight stir fry with soy curls and veggies. Vegan General Tso’s Chicken. Gluten-free, Nut-free Recipe Jump to Recipe
This general tso’s Sauce + Soy Curls makes for an amazing weeknight meal. Soy curls are marinated in the from scratch homemade general tsos sauce mixture, then stir fried to crisp. Veggies added in along, and the rest of the marinade is then cooked down to thicken. Serve this easy stir fry with rice or noodles!
Soy curls absorb moisture differently and sauce amount preference also varies, so make another full or half back of the sauce and add more if needed.
Ingredients for general tso’s Soy curls
- For the sauce you need, soy sauce or tamari, sugar, rice vinegar, mirin, toasted sesame oil, sambal oelek chili paste, ginger and garlic
- For the stir fry you need soy curls, green onions, garlic, bell peppers, zucchini or carrots
How to make General Tso’s Soy curls stir fry
Mix the marinade. Add soy curls and mix and soak. Toss twice in between, Heat a skillet over medium hi heat.
Add oil. When hot, add garlic and green onion and toss for a few seconds
Fish out the soy curls from the marinade and add to the pan, cook for 4 to 5 mins to brown some edges. you can also toss the soy curls in cornstarch before using for crisping up the soy curls. Add the peppers and veggies and mix. Add a pinch of salt and cook for 2 mins
Add 1 tbsp cornstarch and 1/4 cup water to the marinade and mix well.
Add the sauce mixture to the pan and mix well. Cover and cook for 3 to 4 mins to thicken. Stir once in between. Also taste at the time to adjust flavor. Add salt, sugar, heat if needed.
Let sit covered for another min.
Serve with rice and blanched broccoli. garnish with green onions and fresh black pepper 
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- Sticky ginger Sesame Tofu Veggie Stir fry
- Hoisin Noodles and Tofu stir fry
- Cashew Tofu and veggies
- Soy-free tofu stir fry with sunbutter sauce
- Lemongrass Tempeh with sesame noodles
- Sticky Sesame Cauliflower
Vegan General Tso's Soy Curls
Ingredients
- 4 oz soy curls, (dry), see notes for where to buy and sub options
General tso's Sauce:
- 3/4 cup warm water /veggie broth
- 3 to 4 tbsp sugar or coconut sugar or other sweetener
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce use tamari to make gluten-free
- 2 tsp mirin rice wine
- 2 to 3 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1.5 tsp toasted sesame oil
- 2 tsp sambal oelek chile paste optional or sriracha or pepper flakes to taste
- 2 tsp grated fresh ginger
- 3 cloves minced garlic
Stir fry:
- 1 tsp oil, (safflower or sesame)
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions, ,white portions as well, use greens for garnish
- 1/2 red bell pepper
- 1/2 green bell pepper
- 1 cup zuchini or carrots or other veggies
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
Instructions
- Mix the marinade. **Reserve 1/2 cup of the marinade in another bowl to use later. Add soy curls to the marinade and mix and soak for 10-15 mins. Toss twice in between so all soy curls marinate well.
- Heat a skillet over medium high heat, and add the oil. When hot, remove the soy curls from the marinade and add them to the pan. (You can also toss the marinated soy curls in cornstarch before using for extra crispness.) Cook for 4 to 5 minutes to brown some of the edges, then in the last minute of cooking, add in the garlic and green onion.
- Cook, adding 1/2 teaspoon extra oil, if needed, until the onion starts to turn translucent. Add the peppers and veggies and mix. Add a pinch of salt and cook for 2 mins
- Add 1 tbsp cornstarch and 1/4 cup water to the remaining marinade (reserved plus remaining) and mix well.
- Add the marinade sauce mixture to the pan and mix. Cover and cook for 3 to 4 mins to thicken. Stir once in between. Also taste at the time to adjust flavor. Add salt, sugar, heat if needed. Let sit covered for another min.
- Serve with rice and blanched broccoli. garnish with green onions , toasted sesame seeds, and fresh black pepper.
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Notes
More Saucy: For saucier, double the sauce, add in some more veggies if desired. Szechuan version:
Heat 2 tsp oil. add 1 tsp crushed schezuan peppercorns and cook until roasted.
Drain the oil into the marinade and use. Soy curls are not same as soy chunks that are chewier and take much longer to cook. Soy curls can be found in some grocery stores or online on amazon. Use Tofu or chickpeas to substitute soy curls . For Tofu, use firm or extra firm(10 to 14 oz), press for 15 mins, then toss in cornstarch and bake at 400 deg F for 20 mins or pan fry to crisp. Add to the skillet after adding the sauce. Or use 1 can chickpeas drained Nutrition is for 1 serve, does not include rice or noodles.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Wonderful! Simply delicious! I just love the Butler soy curls! They are my favorite meat substitute. Have you tried making faux “fish sticks” with them? Sooooo good! Thanks for sharing! 💛
No, I have not tried that yet.
I can always depend on your recipes turning out amazing and this one is no exception. We often have people express ‘sympathy’ towards our way of eating, thinking that it must be bland and boring – if they only knew!!!!! Thanks for another delicious recipe.
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This was sooooooo good! Thank you so much! I doubled it to feed a family of five and it was perfect!
Great!
Thanks for this great recipe. I love soy curls but didn’t have any on hand BUT I had just made a batch of chickwheat and substituted that. I marinated it in the sauce and followed the directions exactly as if I were using soy curls and it was absolutely delicious
awesome!
Loved this! My boyfriend actually said, “It’s TOO good” as he went back for a third helping! 🙂
One minor thing: My soy curls soaked up ALL the marinade, so I had to whip up another batch to add to the pan after they had browned. Next time, I’ll double it right away!
This was so amazing! It is absolutely my new favorite and go-to recipe. Smashing success in my house.
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This is a fabulous recipe!! Very easy with ingredients that I always have on hand. I’ve made it 3 times already and each time was great. I’m sharing it with everybody. 🙂
I made this and it was so good. I wouldn’t change a thing, except how the ingredients are listed. The sesame oil, siracha, ginger and garlic are listed under the ingredients for the sauce. Now, granted, I should have read the whole recipe first and figured it out, but when it said make the sauce, I mixed all the sauce ingredients together and then after reading further realized that these last four items were actually not sauce ingredients….my bad, but it is a little confusing. The flavor of this dish was really good and the texture of the soy curls was perfect.
I’ll be making it again.
they are in the sauce. For the sauteing, you can use other oil or more sesame oil(forgot to list that in ingredients) and chopped garlic that is different from the minced in the sauce.
Thanks! Well, I did it right then. Sure was delicious.
I made this last night and really enjoyed it. I used mostly dates and applesauce to sweeten the sauce, and only added a little sugar. I also doubled the sauce, and more than quadrupled the vegetables. I have to say that the way you wrote to cook the soy curls was excellent. They ended up with a perfect texture. I will be using this technique in the future in other recipes. I did not use any oil; I used a le Creuset pan and sautéed them first in the residual moisture from the marinade, and then added water as needed.
It ended up tasting like a cross between General Tso’s and bulgogi with the applesauce, but I liked it! I will make this again.
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This. Is. PERFECT! I’ve been looking for a General Tso’s soy curls recipe for FOREVER. Your concoction is just beautiful and it looks so delicious!