Today’s recipe is super quick and easy. It’s for vegan tortilla soup. You basically throw the ingredients in a pot and simmer til it tastes good. I’m not even kidding.
I use this vegan soup base to make the “chicken” broth, and this smoked paprika. I find it to be smokier than other brands.
Vegan Tortilla Soup
- 64 oz crushed tomatoes
- 8 cups vegan "chicken" broth
- 1 medium white onion (chopped)
- 1 can black beans (15oz, drained)
- 1 pkg extra firm tofu (drained, chopped into strips)
- 2 tbsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1/4 cup green chile (or more if you're a chilehead)
- 2 cups sweet corn
- 6 corn tortillas (cut into strips)
- salt (to taste)
- black pepper (to taste)
- cilantro (optional, to taste)
- 1 tbsp olive oil (or less)
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Dry fry the tofu til crisp. Set aside.
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Spread the tortilla strips on a baking sheet and bake on 300 til crisp. Salt to taste. Set aside.
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In a large soup pot fry the onion in the olive oil.
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Add the remaining ingredients and simmer til flavours are melded.
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Dish into a bowl, add tofu, garnish with cilantro, and tortilla strips. Enjoy!
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169 responses to “Vegan School: Tortilla Soup”
Another great vegan base: Vegeta.
Indeed. I use it when I make my Dragon Ball Soup.
Is the Temperature OVER 9000! ?
Glad you did that so I didn’t have to.
Dragon Ball Z Soup?
Seconded – dried mirepoix with MSG+I and inexpensive at European grocery stores.
I’m coming out against smoke flavor. It’s the worst (seemingly unanimously beloved) thing in the world.
And here I was starting to think there was hope for the younger generation. When used properly, smoke is a fabulous flavor. When used incorrectly, smoke can over power any other flavors.
Years ago we were experimenting with NYC apartment-life smoking – using finely ground Lapsang Souchong and a couple of sheet pans in the oven. We really overdid it on a rack of ribs and wifey hasn’t tolerated smoked food or Lapsang Souchong ever since.
I’ve got a friend who lost a house to a fire, he has hated smoke in everything since.
#metoo She jumped out of her 2nd story window into a tree with both of her cats under her arm. She was left with 2 cats, her nightclothes, and her car. All because the fellow downstairs fell asleep with cigarette in his mouth. It is my one big fear of living in the big city.
I’m glad she got her cats because one of my deepest anxious fears is not getting the cats out. The dogs will come when you tell them to come but I’m scared that one of the cats would hide.
Yep. Luckily, ours tend to bolt for the corner of our bedroom that has our likely egress. They like it because it’s often the farthest they can get from our kids.
Similar situation with my friend, except it was his girlfriend’s unemployed brother who fell asleep with the smoke. It can happen in the suburbs as well.
After burning up 3 tea-kettles in 5 years (I can’t hear the whistle any longer), I had a panic and picked up a fancy electronic kettle for the counter-top. Much like an electronic rice-cooker, I always thought them silly until I tried them.
I think I saw that episode of America’s Test Kitchen.
It was either ATK or Alton Brown; we were heavily into both of those at the time.
Have you seen it since Kimball left?
Yeah, I have a season pass on the Tivo, so I still watch the non-dessert episodes. They still do quality work, and it’s 98% less corny now.
I never watched Kimball’s ATK, but his Milk Street isn’t corny at all. It also isn’t good.
I much prefer ATK.
I have one of these indoor smokers. Safe. Works great. I use it all of the time. Great way to add some smoke flavor to thinner cuts and even corn on the cob.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004SZ9D/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_-SH1BbX7CJSP5
*triggered*
Smoked paprika is so good I hate the regular stuff now.
I love smoked paprika.
What, are you Al Qaeda or something?
Worse than Hitler.
Literally Mao Tse Tung.
0/10 on the troll skills.
Dude!?!?
Now I know I can safely ignore any culinary opinions you post.
I’m going to use this opportunity to talk about how I like smoke.
One of my favorites: Kiawe wood. It’s a mild species of mesquite that’s all over Hawaii, but I haven’t found it here. Pineapple/soy marinated ribeye grilled over a Kiawe fire? Yes, please!
Another interesting wood: Zapote (Gumtree from the Yucatan) I’ve only had it once on a tasting menu, but damn it was good. Sour orange achiote octopus grilled over Zapote.
I hate smoke flavour, as SP and OMWC will verify, but in this soup, it’s perfect. It’s not overpowering, and it doesn’t taste like liquid smoke. Many tortilla soup recipes call for liquid smoke, which tastes horrible. Since the only smoked thing in this is the paprika, it’s a nice balance.
No, wait, tortilla soup cannot be vegan, although great recipe. Just addz moar meat.
And moar spice. Black pepper is not a proper spice, jalapeno, chilis, whatever, real pepper.
I would think a couple of chipotles would work well in this, bringing a little more smoke into the soup. I may have to try this recipe in the coming winter (with chicken added of course).
It’s got a quarter cup of hot green chile in it.
Love chicken tortilla soup
So this happened to me today.
*Mod note: Link changed to make it anonymous* -PM
And you didn’t tackle him?
I was tempted to ask him how his ribs were doing.
Jealous!!!
Did you yell ‘Rand Mutha Fuckin Paul!’ I’m not sure would be able to help myself from doing so.
Heh. I found out just this morning that he was going to be in town, stumping for Matt Rosendale for U.S. Senate. I didn’t even think I’d be able to shake his hand.
That would make my day for sure.
???
Thanks, Mod God.
Awesome! Mad respect for Rand, we need so many more leaders like him.
I’m gonna try this one! It sounds good!!
Let me know how it goes! OMWC made it yesterday and said it’s great. š
The next couple of weeks will be time for some recipe testing for Thanksgiving. As well as some cleaning and hauling out tables.
I have a new stove with a double oven coming Thursday. Wife doesn’t know about it. She’s always wanted a double oven. I think there will be a lot of recipe testing going on here after that as well.
48ā range? I really miss the one I had at the last house.
I wish I had room for one. Would love a proper grill.
Very nice. I’m happy with the stove I’ve got now, but would love to upgrade to a gas stove top and electric oven. As long as the stove top can boil 7 gallons of wort.
Can’t wait. Our stove sucks and oven is shot. I’ve fixed it twice but I’m done putting money into it. The new one has an 18,000 btu power boil burner:)
https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-6-8-cu-ft-Double-Oven-Gas-Range-with-Self-Cleaning-and-Convection-Lower-Oven-in-Black-JGB860DEJBB/206214777
Drill out the gas orifice*.
*check your policy first.
I think I would buy one of those gas burners for a turkey fryer and use that before I drilled out an orifice.
Euphemism.
My gas orifice is wide open, and there’s plenty of mercaptan.
About the only flaw I see with that is roasting big items (like turkey). I need to pull all but one of the racks out of my oven on Thanksgiving just to fit the turkey in there. Although, I may be stepping down the size of the turkey this year, as it’s becoming harder to convince people to take leftovers home with them.
I roast the crown and the dark meat separately (I have strong preferences on how each should be prepared), and it solved my space problem.
Last year we browned the legs and thighs and put them in the crockpot (with a few extra legs). Spatchcocked and roasted the breast seperatly in the oven. Really worked quite well.
The bottom oven is supposed to handle a 20# tom which is bigger than what we need. I’ll probably go 12-14. If for some reason I ever want to go bigger I have and electric roaster and an outdoor grill and smoker:)
I’ve been stepping it down from a 20 lb bird the first year to about a 15 lb bird for this year. It’ll also depend on if the niece’s boyfriend is coming, and when the nephews reach the age of becoming food black holes.
Yeah, it’s going to be just dad and I for Thanksgiving this year, so I don’t know how much turkey we’re getting.
It’s just mom and me this year. I’m making duck breasts.
This year we’re doing “friendsgiving” with some families from church. We’re doing a 12-14# turkey. I’m thinking about dry brining with an “apple cider” brine and smoking with apple chips on the weber kettle. We’ll see how it goes. I usually don’t smoke for a crowd.
Anytime I smoke for a large gathering, I default to safe mode.
Cold smoke, and cook in the oven.
I slack and pick up the Trader Joe’s pre-brined turkey. I’m turning away from the bacon mac and cheese I’ve made for the past couple of years for an alfredo mac and cheese instead this year. I’m thinking about moving from twice-baked potatoes to baked potato croquettes this year as well. I’m trying to think of something to do with squash or sweet potatoes.
Neph: don’t slack on the bacon. Unless you’re preparing food for vegetarians or vegans, bacon makes everything except desert better. And sometimes makes desert better.
Also: BACON!
BP: I’m disappointed that you’d think there would be no bacon. The twice baked potatoes I’ve done in the past had two flavors, bacon cheddar and chorizo cheddar. One of these will be used for the croquettes this year I think. I’ve just been doing the bacon macaroni and cheese for the past several years, and feel it’s time for a change. Pancetta alfredo macaroni and cheese should work quite well as a change of pace.
Neph: apologies for thinking you’d ignore bacon. Your mention of trading bacon mac to alfredo mac frightened me, however.
BP: My apologies for not mentioning the pancetta earlier. Hopefully that sets your mind at ease.
Spatchcock.
One of these years I”m going to try going the Turducken route. But probably not this year.
Sometimes Ill take a hunk of spam and roll it in a couple slices of turkey breast with cheese.
#TurSpammen
The turducken hasnāt really tickled my curiosity. Seems like more work than itās worth.
Mojeaux: There are several local butchers in my neck of the woods that put it together for you. So instead of time, I would be paying with cash. Although I do have a stack of recipes that are for building your own (with three different stuffings). But I know my skillset.
I roasted a duck once. It was good. Dunno why I havenāt done it since.
When I was a kid, my dadās avid hunter friend gave him a dressed-out goose. My mom roasted it. I was the only one who liked it. Took me a week or two to eat the whole thing, but I did. Goose sandwiches every day.
Oo, that’s purdy.
Thanks. I think I’m going to get lucky that night after the wife sees it:).
Going to make these Collard Greens with my Pork Roast. Vegetarian recipe but I’ll probably sub chicken broth since I prefer it. No tomatoes in the house but that’s ok. I’ll add some apple cider vinegar for some acidity.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/vegetarian-southern-style-collard-greens-recipe-1938261.amp
Carrots in collard greens can work extremely well.
Just ate them. Very good. I went a touch too heavy on the vinegar at the end but still really good. Added a touch of sugar to offset. I usually use bacon and saute everything in the bacon fat which is defiantly a better version.
The pheasant I have in a pot slowly turning into soup was a vegan.
The Vegan Pheasants is a good band name.
I’m fairly certain the cow that has become my pot roast was a vegan as well.
Yeah, but pheasant farts arenāt destroying the world and all life on it.
They might if my idea for Pheasant WingStop ever catches on.
Seen today on an egg carton at the store: “Vegetarian Fed Hens”
And that’s how I knew not to buy them.
Insectivores taste the best when they’ve never eaten an insect, dude.
It’s just sloppy.
How much do bulk dried mealworms cost?
The beta carotene supplement isn’t fooling anybody. Take your spray tan eggs and shove it.
Is pheasant any good? I am suspicious about any meat you’re supposed to let rot for a week or two before eating.
And if pheasant is good, is peacock good? Those things seem to be stupidly easy to raise.
I donāt hang pheasant. I skin pheasant when I clean them, which means braising or stewing, or breasting them out and doing a quick pan fry. I do have a pheasant pate recipe that is quite good.
The key to cooking pheasant is letting the carcass simmer long enough to release itās flavors. At a certain point, a certain spice note starts to waft out of the pot. Any shorter than that, you might as well use chicken.
I salt and brown the bird, adding in the aromatics part way though to give them a little color. Wine, herbs, water, let it simmer until the meat is tender. Pick the meat off the bones, put the bones back in the stock and let it go for another couple of hours. Strain it and you have a very nice basic stock.
I have no idea about peacocks.
Oh, cincinnati. Losing in a way that is uniquely….cincinnati
Not only am I not going to wait till 5 for alcohol, it may be high-octane stuff tonight.
I thought they won.
Bengals won. They gave up a huge lead to make sure they didn’t beat the spread, but they won.
Yup.
They did their best, tried their hardest. But still didnt lose.
Yeah, I’m currently going back and forth from the Packers – Rams game to the Orlando City Lions vs.NY Red Bulls soccer match. I have confidence the Lions will find a way to lose, as the generally have all season. They had huge support here when they first were established, they could have kept it if they were even mediocre.
Iām rooting for the Packers.
NYCFC is pre-empted by basketball as usual, so I’ll watch some MLS later. In the meantime, the New Jersey Red Bulls can kiss my ass.
Mo: it’s going your way so far, but the Rams did just get a safety.
Luther: I hate to say it, but that’ll probably be after they kick Orlando’s. Also, I’d still be pissed if they chose the Knicks (or the Nets, or whoever) over soccer, even over a crappy team like the Lions. For whatever reason, I lost all interest in basketball & hockey in adolescence.
Husband told me it was 10-2 and Iām like, āThey got a safety?!ā
Guess Iāmma turn on that game.
I don’t mind since I like hockey and Rangers and Islanders are both playing now. I was just going to record NYCFC for later anyway.
Mo: it’s been a good one so far. I kind of prefer watching games where I’ve no rooting interest whatsoever. I can just enjoy good plays against either team.
Luther: I was in London for ten days in 2002. I no longer question why people want to live in huge cities. Glad you have something. As for me, Dwyer scored a goal for Orlando, but he was offside, unlike for the 2 he missed on. And the one the Red Bulls got.
Huzzah.
Good Ryan Fitzgerald showed up (you know the guy who through for over 400 yards the first two games of the season), replacing Jameis Winston who was busy completing passes to the Bengals.
Oh….in the first half I was wondering what team he was playing for
I think there was 4 interceptions or something.
LOL, the last NFL game I went to was back in the 1980s. 5 teen boys drive up to Tampa to watch in dismay as Vinnie Testeverde throws (IIRC) 3 interceptions to the Vikings in the first half of the game. We left and went to an Applebees where the usual scrum of SW Florida, game day, Applebees’ drinkers kept the staff so harried that we would never be carded while ordering our posh, grown-folks sounding drinks (Scotch & soda) and “2 Buds apiece, sir.” Good times.
My wife loves tortilla soup with chicken. This looks like a great base for a quick soup.
Iāve been make food all day. My wife made red sauce yesterday so itās going to be an Italian theme food week.
I made sausage and peppers this morning for tomorrowās dinner. I made a sauce with the carmalized onion and peppers by 40 minutes of slow sautĆ© in sausage grease. Iāll be making chicken parm tonight now Iām reverse searing some marinated chicken thighs with a balsamic vinegar and garlic marinade.
That sounds like much happiness. I love slow carmalizing onions and peppers. They go with everything. So much the better using sausage grease:)
Sounds delightful.
Because it was funny.
Nice:) points for originality.
Randazzaās a liberal but a damned good 1A attorney.
Now that was funny.
Scarfed down four pounds of onion in the past sixteen hours. God help my stomach, maybe.
Take some pepcid ac
That’s a lot of lube.
Gonna be farting too?
Your ass is going to need a HazMat placard.
Honestly, I think my fish curry farts constitute a violation of the non-aggression principle.
Did you at least save 1 for your belt ?
Where’s the beef?
Hot beef injection.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/95a442915db048a484baaf70d253e0a5.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
You’re doing the Lord’s work, Q.
In my belly.
Left over bbq for dinner.
While I ordered parts to play around with putting a handle on a knife, I went “Didn’t Leap already do an article on that?”
Yes, he did. But I noted that the technique he used was epoxy-set hidden tang. The parts I ordered were for pinned scales on a full-tang blank. Should I try to write up a supplemental article to his?
How are you planning on getting the final shape and finish? I seem to remember you owning basically… nothing, polisher-wise.
I bought a belt grinder.
OK. So I have about 6 lbs of cooked chicken breast. It needs to go. I got chibata and French rolls to bake, so I’m thinking a variety of sandwiches for dinner.
I’m kind of lost for ideas, though. I’m thinking something that you would find at the pool bar at a 3 star hotel. That’s as far as I’ve gotten.
Chunky chic salad with a brown mustard and mayo dressing. Add diced pickle lots of paprika and and black pepper.
Shredded chix with a Light buffalo sauce and blue cheese
Chicken cordon blue style sandwiches.
Oh and standard carved chicken sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, and mayo or mustard.
I apparently had something in mind when I went to the store just now.
I bought fresno chilis, jalapeƱos, and anaheims, plus red onions and cilantro. I guess it’s going to be spicy. Oh, and chipotle mayo.
Now, I have to figure out something for the kids. Chicken cordonbleu will work for 2 of them.
Where’s the spicy?
Yup. Spicy doesn’t start until habanero levels.
I stemmed and seeded the jalapeƱos and didn’t wash my hands. And then I used the restroom.
They’re plenty spicy, I assure you. Painfully so.
– I made something I called “hangover soup”, and it actually did vanquish my hangover. It was chicken, broth, canned tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, oregano, hot sauce, a squirt of lime juice, and some egg noodles. Kind of a Mexican-inspired thing.
– Chicken curry?
– Leftover chicken stir-fry, assuming that you haven’t seasoned them with something that would clash with Asian flavors.
– Chicken pot pie. Saute some mirepoix, make a roux, pour in some chicken broth, add the chicken, and seal it all up in a pie crust.
Ok, I missed the part where you said “sandwiches”…
I’m drinking another BIF beer. It’s pretty good.
My favorite time of year for beer. We’ll be doing our annual hide from the trick r treaters sitting at the bar tradition Wednesday at the local pub which has 40 some beers on tap:)
I do that too. I stop by the local Tilted Kilt for it because the women usually dress up.
Once again it appears I’ve bought too much candy for Halloween. For suburbia, there’s a shortage of trick or treaters. I’ve thrown a couple of full sized candy bars left over from hopeful s’mores making on top of the candy bowl.
That’s nifty.
It is, but it’s probably not street legal, and more difficult to install than tire chains.
But it probably allows travel in worse snow conditions in tire chains can. It is probably just a gimmick but it is a neat engineering fix.
Probably.
Me like.
All I get is a black box. Apparently it’s a fucking GIF substituting for video.
How is the braking?
Badass. Now all you’d need is a 20mm gun accessible through the sunroof to make it complete.
I saw that a few years ago. The fact that I haven’t seen more of it since tells me that it didn’t catch on for some reason.
“A Libertarian opponent from my 2016 POTUS run has stated that my multiple jail terms, allegations of murder, rape, drug manufacture, perverted sexuality etc, should disqualify me from the Libertarian platform in 2020. I’m confused. Have these qualities suddenly become bad things?”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1054923432347996160
I saw this on some cable channel, and yeah, it had some allegations which are disturbing if true.
But… Bill Weld. I never thought I’d wish for Mike Bednarik to come back.
I watched that too. Seemed like a smear job. I especially thought the rape allegation seemed more like ‘bitter former employee (possibly girlfriend) seeks revenge.”
Agreed that some of it seemed like BS, and some of it seemed like a government that wants to put a guy in prison. But I didn’t think it was made up whole cloth.
Cosmotarians can be quite puritanical when it suits them. Also the inane desire for “respectability”.
Weld/Dalmia 2020
“Allegations? What the fuck is a STRONG allegation?? All allegations are free and enormously benefit the person making them. Surely, actions and facts matter more to Libertarians than words. Surely.”
McAfee has that ability that Trump has; You read every tweet of his in his own voice.
A dozen examples how Trump is literally Hitler:
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1056353717526515712
All of that stuff is just cover for his Hitlerism. And apparently Glenn Beck is Goebbels.
https://twitchy.com/jacobb-38/2018/10/28/too-high-a-cost-sally-kohn-unleashes-the-shame-for-those-who-would-dare-to-like-tax-cuts/
Those triggering Republican haters.
You knew it was coming…
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1056574817825120257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1056574817825120257&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fjacobb-38%2F2018%2F10%2F28%2Fthe-pathetic-message-from-democrats-about-the-tragic-shooting-in-pittsburgh-vote-for-us%2F
A bold strategy indeed
Another devastating loss for socialism.
Bolsonaro: 55%
Haddad: 44%
92% reporting
On a scale of 1 to 100 how libertarian is he?
Your mum?
On a scale of how commie he is, a lot less than Haddad. That’s all I need to know.
I’ve seen him described as “far-right”. What does that mean in a Brazilian context?
He’s not extreme left.
He wants to privatize state owned companies.
Worse than Hitler and the old military regime!
The non-far-left Bolsonaro won.