{"id":4527,"date":"2013-10-13T14:27:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2020-12-06T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:02:13","slug":"pan-of-vegan-sausage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2013\/10\/pan-of-vegan-sausage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan of Vegan Sausage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Web didn&#8217;t give me exactly what I wanted: A recipe for a quick, from-scratch skillet full of vegan sausage patties. Fat free. Cheap. Pantry ingredients. Well, my pantry, at least.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was a healthy version of the memory of sausage, mild and from the supermarket. While these brown, you can put together pancake batter or simmer a pot of oatmeal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Cup boiling water<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon low-salt vegetable bullion powder<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon dried sage or sage-dominant herb blend, such as poultry seasoning<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon seasoned salt OR salt-free paprika-dominant spice mix<\/li>\n<li>1 Tablespoon cornstarch<\/li>\n<li>1 Tablespoon catsup OR tomato paste<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, to start<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon salt, optional, to start<\/li>\n<li>1 Cup TVP (texturized vegetable protein) granules<\/li>\n<li>2-6 Tablespoons bread crumbs, panko, matzo meal or gluten-free equivalent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Place hot water in a small mixing bowl, add bullion powder, herbs, spices, cornstarch, catsup or tomato paste and a good grinding of black pepper. Mix thoroughly. Taste, add if needed 1\/4 teaspoon salt. Add TVP and mix thoroughly. Wait two minutes for absorption then stir bread crumbs (or equivalent) to the mix, 2 Tablespoons at a time, to be thoroughly moistened and just slightly sticky (think raw hamburger). Taste, add more salt or spices if needed. Let cool and fully absorb, no less than 10-15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Preheat large nonstick skillet on medium heat 5 minutes. Add 1\/2 Tablespoon vegetable oil to pan.<\/p>\n<p>Wet hands with water and form 2-inch wide by 1\/4-inch thick patties and place into hot skillet. Cook about 4 minutes until well-browned and flip, cooking another 4 minutes. Makes about 8 patties.<\/p>\n<p>Recipe can be doubled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><small>Copyright 2013 Ben S. Pollock Jr.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Web didn&#8217;t give me exactly what I wanted: A recipe for a quick, from-scratch skillet full of vegan sausage patties. Fat free. Cheap. Pantry ingredients. Well, my pantry, at least. The goal was a healthy version of the memory of sausage, mild and from the supermarket. While these brown, you can put together pancake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5870,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2017\/11\/caldo-verde\/","url_meta":{"origin":4527,"position":0},"title":"Vegan Caldo Verde with a Fork","author":"Ben S. 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