Soy Protein and Vegetable Sauté
100 grams soy protein, diced
2 medium onions
1 medium red pepper
1 broccoli
1 cup olive oil
⅓ cup soy sauce
⅓ sesame toasted oil
½ cup peanuts
Salt and black pepper to taste
Pasta with Caper Sauce and Button Mushrooms
500 grams tagliarini durum pasta
200 grams button mushrooms
100 grams capers
½ cup olive oil
1 medium onion
4 garlic cloves
200 grams soy cream
Directions
Soy Protein and Vegetable Sauté
- Peel and cut the onion into half, and then cut it in half moon shape.
- Cut the bell peppers into strips.
- Cut the broccoli into half.
- Boil some water, add a generous dash of salt and throw in the broccoli only when the water is very hot. Let the broccoli boiled for 1.5 minutes.
- Take out the broccoli, drain the water, and put it in the cold water. This way will preserve the flavor and the color.
- Hydrate the soy protein and drain out maximum amount of water as much as possible.
- Heat up a pan, and when it’s very hot add in the olive oil and soon add the onion.
- Let the onion browned, and then add a little toasted sesame oil, half only.
- Add in the bell pepper, and then the soy, the soy sauce to season the soy protein.
- Next, put in a dash of salt, remembering that there is already the soy sauce.
- Lastly, add in the broccoli, a little bit more of the other half of the toasted sesame oil.
- Before the broccoli dries up, turn off the heat and add in the peanuts.
- Place the vegetable sauté on a plate, and put it aside.
- Cut the onion into stripes and then into cubes.
- Cut the button mushroom into half, dice finely some of it, but also let’s leave part of it whole so that when eating it, we can feel the texture.
- To make use of the vitamins, cook the pasta with the broccoli water.
- To cook the button mushroom and capers sauce for the tagliarini pasta: pre heat the pan until it is very hot.
- Add the olive oil, and onion.
- Let it caramelize.
- Add the garlic and the button mushrooms.
- Add in the capers and black pepper.
- Add a little bit more salt, and the soy cream.
- Turn off the heat and let it finish frying by the heat of the pan.
- To decorate the dish, use a mould to make cookies. Set it in the center of the plate.
- Take the pasta, wrap it around it, adjust it so that it becomes a square like if it were a pit inside so that the nest is squared.
- Put the filling of button mushrooms with capers in the nest.
- Take out the mould and add the soy with the vegetables around it.
- Put some sesame on top of the button mushroom for decoration.
- Ready to be served.