Spiced Tempeh Sandwiches Recipes

BARBEQUE TEMPEH SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Pour the barbeque sauce into a medium bowl. Crumble the tempeh into the sauce, and let it marinate a little, about 10 minutes.
• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the red and green peppers, and the onion. Cook, stirring frequently until tender. Stir in the tempeh and barbeque sauce, and heat through.
• Spoon the tempeh mixture onto kaiser rolls, and serve.

SPICY BBQ TEMPEH SANDWICH WITH SWEET POTATO WEDGES AND ASIAN SLAW

Steps:

• Asian Slaw: Combine green cabbage, red cabbage, and carrots and toss in a medium serving bowl. Whisk together rice wine vinegar, sugar, lime juice, ground ginger, and salt and pour over salad mixture. Toss and chill until serving.
• Sweet Potato Wedges: Cut each sweet potato into eighths. With a pastry brush, coat each piece lightly with canola oil. Bake in a preheated 425 degree F oven for 20 minutes or until tender. Set aside and keep warm until serving.
• Tempeh: Cut each tempeh cake in half and then cut each piece in two lengthwise. You should end up with 4 semi-square pieces. Score each piece on both sides, diagonally, about 1/8-inch deep. Repeat scoring in opposite direction to create a diamond pattern. In a medium saucepan, bring 2 cups water to boil, add tempeh cakes, and steam for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and place tempeh in a flat bowl or square baking pan and pour soy sauce over top, making sure each piece gets coated. Let set for 5 minutes.
• Arrange tempeh on lightly oiled baking sheet. With a pastry brush, lightly coat the top of each tempeh cake, top and bottom, with barbecue sauce.
• Caramelized Onions: In a medium non-stick skillet, heat canola oil over medium-high heat and add sliced onion. Saute onion until translucent, add the brown sugar, and continue cooking another 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Assembly: Place 1 or 2 slices of BBQ tempeh in a whole grain sandwich bun. Top with caramelized onions. Place on a plate with 4 sweet potato wedges and a serving of Asian slaw. Have a small bowl of barbecue sauce on the side.
• Beverage suggestion: Loose and/or bag Green Tea

SWEET AND SPICY TEMPEH WITH LONG BEANS

Steps:

• Combine shallots, garlic, and ginger in a mortar and pestle and grind into a spice paste.
• Heat enough oil in a deep skillet for deep frying. Deep-fry tempeh until golden brown, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towels to drain.
• Drain most of oil from the skillet, leaving about 2 tablespoon of oil. Sauté spice paste and lemongrass until fragrant, about 3 minutes. Add long beans, soy sauce, garlic-chili oil, and palm sugar. Cook until long beans are tender but still have a bit of crunch, about 2 minutes. Add baby kale and cook until wilted, about 2 minutes. Remove lemongrass knot before serving.

BUFFALO CUCUMBER TEMPEH SANDWICH

Steps:

• Slice the tempeh into 1/8 inch thick slices. Sprinkle the slices with salt on both sides. Warm half of the oil and fry the tempeh in batches, turning frequently, until well browned. Add more oil if the pan becomes too dry.
• Heat the peeled garlic cloves with the olive oil in a small pot to 180 degrees F for 20 minutes or until slightly browned and tender. About halfway through, the cloves should begin to float. Drain and reserve the oil.
• Mash the garlic with a fork, then whisk in the hot sauce, shallots, and 1 tablespoon of the garlic oil reserved in step 2.
• Peel the cucumbers, halve them lengthwise, and scrape out the seeds with a spoon. Cut them in half lengthwise again, then into 1/4 inch slices. Toss with the buffalo sauce.
• Spread the mayonnaise on both halves of each bun. Assemble the sandwiches with tempeh on the bottom, then salt and fresh ground pepper if desired, then cucumbers, blue cheese, and finally carrots.
• Tip: You can use the leftover garlic oil in other recipes.

SPICED TEMPEH SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Cut the tempeh into 4 large pieces.
• In a medium bowl, combine the water, soy sauce or tamari, apple juice, honey, garlic, coriander, ginger and pepper In a large no stick frying pan over medium heat, lightly brown the tempeh on both sides.
• Add the marinade mix and cook until the liquid evaporates.
• Remove from the heat.
• Slice each piece of tempeh in half horizontally to make it thinner Place on half of the bread slices.
• Add the lettuce or sprouts and tomatoes or avocados.
• Top with the remaining bread.