Ingredients:

• Soy meat (dry) - 100 grams.
• Cucumbers - 2 pcs.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Soy sauce - 3 tbsp l.
• Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.
• Greens - 1 bunch.
• Spices (coriander, chili, black pepper, dried garlic)
• Salt.

Salad from soy meat- a favorite dish of vegetarians. But everyone can cook it, because it is unusual pleasant taste and excellent nutritional properties.

You can cook a salad with soy meat with any vegetables, so the number of options for ready-made meals is practically unlimited. Korean soybean salad with carrots and sesame seeds is very popular.

Fresh taste will delight the salad with soy meat and cucumber, as well as with Chinese cabbage, bell peppers, tomatoes, eggplants. If you look at the photo, you will notice that soy meat salads are not much different from snacks with regular meat, the same can be said for their taste.

What is Soy Meat?

Soy meat salad recipes are useful for everyone who wants to lose weight, because this product is perfectly digestible and serves as an excellent source of easily digestible protein. The calorie content of soy meat is quite high (296 kcal per 100 g), but it practically does not contain fat, therefore it will not harm the figure, providing the necessary energy.

In addition, the product is rich in vitamins of group B, E and H, calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium. The protein content in finished soy meat reaches 70%, which is even higher than that of natural.

In stores, the soy analogue is found mainly in dried form, which significantly increases its shelf life. Before making a salad of soy meat, the latter must be soaked in a marinade or cooked with the addition of spices, thereby increasing the mass several times and giving the appropriate taste. Finished product can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days, using for cooking various dishes and snacks.

There are especially many salads with soy meat in the cuisine of the Asian region: Korean, Japanese, Thai, Chinese. In addition to meat itself, soy sauce is added to such salads; all kinds of vegetables, spices, herbs, vegetable oils and vinegar are used in the recipes.

Such salads with meat and soy sauce perfectly satisfy hunger, can be served as an appetizer or main course.

Using recipes with photos, everyone can cook delicious and healthy salad with soy meat to please your vegetarian friends or take care of your health.

Preparation

You can start your acquaintance with this unique product by preparing a salad of soy meat and cucumbers.

1. Dried meat should be poured with boiling water (about 1 liter) and left for 30 minutes, covered with a lid. Throw the cooked meat in a colander and rinse well in cold water.
2. Chop cucumbers into thin strips, you can use Korean grater... Put them in a salad bowl, sprinkle with a mixture of spices (you can use ready-made seasoning for Korean carrots).
3. Chop greens (parsley or cilantro), put on cucumbers.
4. Add meat to the cucumber salad, pour over soy sauce and stir. By the way, for such a salad with soy meat and cucumbers, it is better to use the most liquid sauce with a sweetish taste.
5. Chop the onion into thin half rings, fry it in vegetable oil until soft, then add the entire contents of the pan to the salad and mix immediately.

Serve the salad with meat and cucumbers, sprinkle with soy sauce and pepper immediately.

Variants

Very easy to prepare korean salad from soy meat with carrots.

1. Boil the meat in advance.
2. Cut the carrots into strips, pour over soy sauce, sprinkle generously with black pepper and chili, salt and mix well.
3. Finely chop the onion, fry until golden brown in vegetable oil, then add the soy meat and fry for a few more minutes, stirring constantly. Put the meat and onions on the carrots.
4. Cook sugar syrup(for 1 spoonful of sugar, take two tablespoons of water), pour over the salad, sprinkle with sesame seeds, add chopped garlic, mix well and let it brew.
5. A similar oriental salad with meat and soy sauce will become a great snack for both everyday and holiday menus.

By the way, bell pepper can be added to such a salad with meat and soy sauce. With the latter, the taste will be much more juicy.

Among oriental salads you can distinguish Peking with meat and soy sauce.

1. To prepare it, you need to pour boiling water over soy meat and shiitaki mushrooms placed in different bowls, put on slow fire and simmer for about half an hour.
2. Then rinse everything well in cold water, cut into strips.
3. Chop the carrots and onions into half rings, fry in oil, add the meat and mushrooms at the end.
4. Pour soy sauce into the salad with meat and vegetables, add chopped garlic and continue to fry for about 10 minutes.

If desired in Beijing salad with soy sauce and meat can be added fresh cucumbers or bell peppers.

Famous thai salad with meat (beef) and soy sauce can also be prepared using soy substitute. This salad is made from fried meat, sweet peppers and soy sauce adding sesame seeds, garlic, herbs and spices.

Very basic but delicious salad obtained from meat with tomatoes and soy sauce.

1. To prepare it, you need to soak the soy meat, and then fry it in vegetable oil.
2. Cut the tomatoes into slices, add stew to the meat.
3. After 10 minutes, pour the soy sauce into the pan, mix well and remove from heat. Arrange immediately on plates, sprinkle with sesame seeds and black pepper, serve warm.
4. TO fried meat with tomatoes and soy sauce, you can add fresh cucumbers, cut into strips, so the salad will taste fresher.

Similarly, you can prepare a salad with meat and soy sauce, replacing tomatoes with bell peppers, also adding cucumbers or not.

Salads with soy sauce and meat can be effectively decorated, as in the photo, then they will be appropriate even for festive table, and the guests will never guess about the "substitution".

In recent years, in order to reduce the cost of many meat dishes, manufacturers have been using soybeans. Rumor attributes many negative characteristics to this product, but it must be borne in mind that this is a useful nutritious and even medicinal product.

It can be bad only if soy products are made from genetically modified soybeans. If you decide to try something from soy, then when purchasing a package with soy meat, pay attention to the labeling to make sure that the product is non-GMO.

But we must remember that up to 90% of soybeans in the world are GMO soybeans !!!

Salad "Second Youth with Soy Meat"

Name of products for 1 serving:

Squid fillet - 44 g
Fresh cucumbers - 40 g
Leaf salad - 10 g
Fresh tomatoes - 47 g
Pitted olives stuffed with lemon - 18 g
Soy meat - 21 g
Mayonnaise with lemon juice or olive oil- 60 g
Greens to taste
Shrimp - 75 g

How to make soy meat salad :

The pulp obtained after cold processing of the squid carcass is boiled in salted water for no more than five minutes. The cooked squid is cooled without draining the broth, cut into cubes.

Frozen shrimps are boiled with the addition of salt, cooled, peeled.

Soy meat is soaked, boiled in salted water, the broth is drained, washed hot water pieces, cooled, cut into cubes and placed on the bottom of the salad bowl, so that when dressing the salad, it is saturated with juice from the vegetables.

Fresh cucumbers are cut into slices.

Fresh tomatoes are cut into slices.

The olives are used whole.

Put lettuce leaves on the bottom of the salad bowl, put mayonnaise on the salad, put soy meat on it, and then squid cubes. The next layer is a mixture of vegetables, shrimps and olives. If you use olive oil instead of mayonnaise, then pour it out at the very last moment before serving it in a salad bowl. Mayonnaise can be served separately.

Lean salad with soy meat

Number of products per serving:

Soy meat - 55 g
Potatoes - 25 g
Carrots - 25 g
Onions - 5 g
Canned green peas - 20 g
Pickled cucumber - 10 g
Mayonnaise - 30 g
Lettuce leaves - 15 g
Onion-feather - 5 g
Dill - 6 g

How to make lean soy salad :

After soaking, soy meat is boiled in salted water, cooled and cut into cubes.

Potatoes and carrots, after primary processing peeled, diced and steamed.

Pickled cucumbers are sorted, washed, peeled and cut into small cubes.

Onions (preferably white sweet) are finely chopped and then chopped into crumbs.

All ingredients are mixed, added green pea, and seasoned with mayonnaise. Serve sprinkled with dill herbs.

Bon Appetit!!!

From some vegetarian meals even those people whose gastronomic preferences are expressed by the phrase "the best cake is a cutlet" are delighted. Can't believe it? Let's see what an inveterate meat-eater has to say after tasting spicy Korean-style soy meat, the recipe for which is detailed below, or light salad from cucumber and soy texture in spices.

Korean Soy Meat Recipe

All the assurances of market sellers that it is impossible to prepare "real" Korean marinades on their own is nothing more than an ordinary marketing ploy. In fact, there are no specific ingredients in the recipe, the cooking technology is elementary simple.

1. Dry soy goulash(beef stroganoff) pour 1 liter of boiling water for 20 minutes. The water is drained, the meat is washed, squeezed. Then boil for 6 minutes in lightly salted water.
   
2. The increased texturate is thrown into a colander, squeezed out.
   
3. Peel and wash carrots. Cut into long, thin strips.
   
4. Peel the garlic, cut it into small pieces with a knife. You can put the vegetable in the marinade raw (the appetizer turns out to be more aromatic) or fry for 7 seconds in hot oil and mix hot with carrots - the taste of the dish will be softer.
   
5. Salt, spices, sugar are mixed in a bowl. Pour in vinegar. After, if unroasted garlic is used, pour in oil. Stir.
6. The resulting dressing is poured over the vegetables. Mix well. Press down with a spoon, cover (as tightly as possible to the surface) cling film... Kept in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
   
7. Soy meat is combined with juiced carrots and garlic. Stir from bottom to top. Press with a spoon, cover with cling film.
   

In this form, the product is brought to readiness in the refrigerator. A day later, amazing delicious appetizer you can taste it.

How to make Korean soybean and fresh cucumber salad

Light, low-calorie food, rich in vitamins. Great alternative meat salads during the fast. A dish that fits perfectly into the diet of adepts healthy eating or a strict menu of overweight fighters.

For 3 servings of salad you will need:

• soy beef stroganoff (dry texturate) - 60 g;
• boiling water;
• fresh ground cucumber - 3 medium-sized fruits;
• head (small) onion;
• greenery;
• odorless lean oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
• soy sauce - 3 tbsp. l .;
• a mixture of spices for vegetables in Korean - 1 tsp.

Cooking time - 1 hour.

The calorie content of 100 g of the dish is 75 kcal.

1. Soy meat is steamed with boiling water and kept in a closed container for 30 minutes.
2. The water is drained, the meat is washed, the excess liquid is squeezed out.
3. Cucumbers are washed, cut into long bars slightly thicker than straws korean carrots... Sprinkle with dry seasoning and marinate for 5 minutes.
4. Chop the greens finely. Combine with cucumbers.
5. Soy meat is added to vegetables. Sprinkle with sauce. Stir gently.
6. Peel, wash, cut the onion into thin semicircles. Saute until light ruddy in hot vegetable oil.
7. Fried onions along with butter, without cooling, are added to the rest of the ingredients of the dish. Stir.

They eat the salad right away, without waiting for the cucumbers to release a lot of juice and become soft.

The subtleties of cooking

To make the soy goulash as similar as possible to real meat, the dry product is soaked or boiled in a non-fat meat broth... For a change flavors soy meat can be pre-marinated in pepper tomato juice, milk, white wine.

Carrots in classic recipe quite successfully replace the root of celery or parsley, parsnips. In light salads with a vegetable analogue of bean flour meat, fresh cucumbers, bell peppers, Peking cabbage, and white cabbage are perfectly combined.

If, by chance, Korean-style soybean meat turns out to be over-acidified or salted, the marinade is drained, changing it to clean boiled water... In an hour and a half, the annoying mistake will be corrected, the taste of the dish will improve.

How to cook soy meat in Korean, watch the video below:

Correct proportions of spices, consistent processing and sufficient marinating time are key great taste snacks and salads from soy meat with vegetables. It is satisfying and really tasty, despite the complete absence of animal protein in the "meat" dishes.

When the holidays are over, with their plentiful tables, libations and heavy consumption, by no means healthy food, the body needs relaxation. At this time, it is worth switching to lighter ones, dietary products to allow the body to rest. Soy meat salad contains a minimum of fat, it is healthy and nutritious. Many plants are high in protein. In some cases, they can be a substitute for protein foods of animal origin. This fully applies to food products that are produced from soy. As in all legumes it has a very high protein content. Soy is used by others healthy foods: soy milk; tofu (bean curd). The soy meat salad recipe will come in handy for lovers of protein foods. Moreover, lean salad very tasty, it contains a lot of vitamins and useful microelements.

Ingredients:

• 120 g dry soy meat;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 bell pepper;
• garlic to taste;
• parsley or other herbs;
• 30 ml of soy sauce;
• 30 ml frying oil + 30 ml dressing oil;
• 1-2 tbsp. spoons of 9% vinegar;
• salt pepper.

How to make soy meat salad:

1. Soy meat must first be poured with boiling water so that it is saturated with water and takes the desired shape.

2. At this time, vegetables should be peeled and chopped. Bell pepper wash, remove seeds, membranes, cut into thin strips and then into cubes.

The first thing to do is to fry the onion in a small amount. vegetable oil... This should be done no longer than 3-4 minutes. Add pepper, carrots. Fry vegetables for another 3-4 minutes. Add the garlic, cut into thin slices or simply chopped with a knife. Vegetables should not fall apart.

3. Soy meat has become saturated with water, has increased in size - now it should be rinsed with cold water.

4. In a deep bowl, combine the fried vegetables and the soy meat.

5. In a bowl, mix the vinegar, vegetable oil and soy sauce. Stir the dressing thoroughly. Pour it over all the ingredients, add black freshly ground pepper, salt to taste. Chop the greens finely, send to the rest of the ingredients.

Stir the salad so that all ingredients are covered delicious dressing... Set the bowl of treats aside - the salad should be infused.

Several hours have passed - you can serve the dish to the table. Place the salad in a nice, deep salad bowl, and serve separately with the oil and soy sauce. Such a salad will a great addition for cereals, other side dishes, and can also be served as a completely independent dish.

Bon Appetit!!!

How to cook such a product deliciously?

It is no secret that many housewives refuse to cook dishes from this product due to the fact that they do not know how to cook it correctly and tasty. Here are some tips from our chefs to help you make soy meat really tasty:

if you are not on a diet, then it is best to soak the meat in broth (chicken or meat);

vegetarians or fasting people may be advised to marinate meat in milk, tomato juice, or in a solution of soy sauce and water;

if the smell of soy meat is completely unpleasant to you, then try pouring boiling water over it and after a while change the water. The last time, you should squeeze the pieces of meat well and pour water again, but with the addition of aromatic spices and herbs;

chefs advise to combine this product with fried vegetables, stew under sour cream or tomato sauces which are great with soy meats and vegetables. In addition, you can generously flavor ready meal favorite spices (ginger, garlic and others).

Best regards, Natalia Salmina.

For a variety of lean, as well vegetarian menu I propose to cook one more interesting dish- (wheat meat). In fasting, seitan is very relevant, it saturates and nourishes the body with protein well. It tastes like soy meat and when correct preparation, has a pretty decent and pleasant taste.

Spicy spicy meat with juicy carrots is a very appetizing combination. Soy meat is marinated along with carrots. The Korean marinating technology captivates with its simplicity.

Of course, oriental recipes have slightly adapted, touching with European culinary traditions. But the main rules remain: heat treatment is minimized, spices are presented to the maximum, and salt is used very sparingly. The dish can be stored in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, the dishes must be covered.

Products

• soy meat - 150 g;
• carrots - 4-5 pcs.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 5 cloves;
• salt - 1.5 tsp l.;
• sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
• vinegar 9% - 3-4 tbsp. l.;
• sunflower oil - 80 ml;
• red hot pepper - 1/4 of the pod;
• black pepper - 1 tsp l.;
• coriander - 2 tsp l.;
• fresh parsley.

Recipe Cooking Korean carrots with soy meat

Dry soy meat can have a variety of configurations, but soy goulash, which resembles tiny cubes with jagged edges, is chosen for marinating.

1. G ulyash is boiled in salted water. Intense boiling time - 10 minutes. Turning off the heat, simmer in boiling water for 5 minutes. Then the hot water is drained, the soy meat is slightly squeezed, squeezing it with a slotted spoon.

2. Large or medium juicy Korean salad carrots rub so that long strips are obtained. Chop a quarter of hot pepper.

3. Place the carrots in a deep glass bowl.

4 . Pieces of red bitter pepper are added. They take medium-sized cloves of garlic, pass them through a press.

5 . Pour coriander and black pepper peas onto a kitchen board, crush them with a rolling pin. Sprinkle the carrots with spices.

6. Combine carrots with sugar and salt, mix.

7. Chopped onion is fried in vegetable oil.

eight . Both onions and butter are placed in a bowl of carrots.

9 . Combine carrots and goulash. It is desirable that soy product has not yet had time to cool down completely by this moment. Carrots are getting more soft, in contact with warm meat... And the latter, in turn, is quickly impregnated with spices.

10 . Pour in table vinegar ... Other types of vinegar produce an undesirable aftertaste that doesn't go well with our dish. The bowl is placed in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

11 . The resulting salad mixed with fresh herbs and divided into portions. Korean salad is a trendy lunchtime snack. This dish keeps well in a lunch box at room temperature. At work, you can dine with appetite by opening a box with delicious food.

12 . For breakfast and dinner, Korean salad is rarely served, this dish is intended for lunch. It goes very well with red rice and boiled lentils.