Vegan Tofu Turkey ( Tofurkey )

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This is the closest I am going to get as far as cooking and eating meat goes What? This looks and tastes ‘meaty’ enough for me (pun intended!). So much so I got two comments which makes this dish a success for me – at least as far as looks department goes. First, I shocked the hell out of my husband when he got home from work the other day. I placed the sliced pieces on the table and he was like “What’s wrong with you? – I knew I had to put an end to you watching Food network all the time. How the heck did you manage to do this?”. LOL! I laughed so much and it took him about 5 minutes of prodding and smelling the “meat” to finally get convinced that this was TOFU! Another success was a comment from our American neighbor, who for a second, forgot that we are vegetarians and told me that I had sliced the meat in a very different way than how they traditionally did it See my Vegetarian Thanksgiving post for other recipes.

Tastes wise, I seriously have no idea how a Turkey originally tastes like, but it was not as bland as I thought this will be when I first started making it. Indians like and add flavor like southerners add fat to their food. But I need not have worried that much. It would have helped to have more flavor though, but I did not want to deviate too much from the recipes on the net, on the account that they probably could make it tasting more closer to the real thing than my own creative one. But when you are making it, just add flavors as per your tastes. Tofu will absorb more flavor if you let it sit along with seasonings.

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