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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 
More stir fries
- 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.
I don’t have low sodium soy sauce. I have Bragg’s Aminos can I use that? If so would I use the same amount? Thank you for your help! 🙂
yes, same amount
Just made this…doubled the sauce (and doubled water and cornstarch added to left over marinade) and vegetables…was EXCELLENT! Even my meat eating son and husband have it a thumbs up!
Awesome !!
This was SO GOOD!!Would give it 10 stars if I could.
Thank you!!!!
Awesome! Thanks for the great review!
This is delicious! Thanks!
thanks for popping in ♡
Even my meat-eating Albertan wife loves this meatless dish
Awesome
Really good!! The soy curls turned out great. The flavour of the marinade was great. Will definitely keep this recipe for the file.
Do I rehydrate the soy curls prior to putting them in the marinade or are the soy curls rehydrated in the marinade?
just directly into marinade…. no rehydration prior
Thanks so much!
You’ve done it again! Everyone in our house loved it!
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This was our first adventure with soy curls and it was delicious. I added lots of veggies and did 1.5 times the sauce. So good! Thanks for all your hard work.
P.S. Love your latest cookbook and several of those recipes are regulars in our house.
thanks for popping in ♡ and I’m so happy that you are enjoying the cookbook
I’ve made this twice with a few variations and both turned out great. The sugar is not great for me so I sub. 1 Tbl. Honey and that worked fine. Double up on the veggiess, and throw in some port Abella’s!