Tempeh for Me, Tea for You (winner!)

Last week, I made a meal with tempeh for the first time!

Thanks to Eats, a local health food store, I found a ton of tempeh varieties that I didn?t even know existed.

For my first trial, I bought Lightlife Organic Wild Ride Tempeh to try, which contains cultured organic soybeans, water, organic wild rice, organic brown rice, lactic acid (from plant sources).

I loved it so much in the spicy stirfry I had a few weeks ago that I tried my own spin on it.

The tempeh was chopped into bite size pieces and ?browned? in a pan with a little oil. Once it was heated/browned, I took the tempeh out of the pan and added in 2 bags of frozen stirfry mixed veggies and some edamame. While the veggies were cooking, I mixed up a spicy sauce:

As soon as the veggies were cooked, I added in the sauce and tempeh and let it all cook together until everything was heated through and the sauce thickened up a bit.

It?s perfect served over nutty brown rice. I love the texture of the tempeh ? sort of crumbly, but it holds it shape while cooking, which is nice.

I think the sauce recipe can use a little tweaking, so no exact measurements/recipe yet ? but I like the heat in it! Sriracha is so good on stirfrys.

As for the Sokenbicha Tea Giveaway!!!

Drumroll please?.

The lucky winners are:

1. Sues

These look awesome and TOTALLY right up my alley! The main reason I look forward to cold weather is so I can sit on the couch and drink hot tea I?m a big fan of Harney and Son?s cinnamon spice, but these look so awesome. I love the bottles!

2. Veronica

Since it?s around the holidays, I absolutely love peppermint tea, or mint tea. Drinking peppermint tea reminds me of eating a candy cane!

3.tiffany

The Yogi green teas are the best.

Congrats!!! Please shoot me an email (branappetit [at] gmail) and I?ll send it along to get your prize packages on their way

Do you use tempeh at home? What are your favorite ways to use it?