{"id":412,"date":"2008-06-01T05:10:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T10:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/412\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T19:38:50","slug":"tofu-crab-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/tofu-crab-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Bay Tofu \u201cCrab\u201d Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had the honor of making dinner for the #1 top fundraiser for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veganoutreach.org\/enewsletter\/20080423.html\">Team Vegan<\/a>, Nancy, and 5 of her close friends.   First prize was a gourmet vegan dinner for 6, including dishes!  Nancy raised  $3,025 to create more vegetarians, so it was an honor (and a blast) to cook for her.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The menu:<\/p>\n<p>Crostini with heirloom tomatoes and fresh basil, some with FYH vegan mozzarella, some with extra virgin olive oil<br \/>\nRoast asparagus spears with lemon<br \/>\n\u201cCrab\u201d cakes with lemon-dill dipping sauce<br \/>\nCaesar salad<br \/>\nVegan Chicken and Wild Mushrooms in White Wine Butter Sauce<br \/>\nHerb-roasted New Potatoes<br \/>\nSwiss chard with Balsamic<br \/>\nChocolate-Peanut Butter Brownies with Two Kinds of Vegan Ice Cream and Fresh Strawberries<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI\u2019m including the recipe for the \u201ccrab\u201d cakes here, but I also have to include a confession.  I totally cheated on the dessert.  Believe me, I had every intention of making a rich chocolate dessert from scratch, but then one week before the dinner I found myself eating a brownie from Allison\u2019s Gourmet.  If you haven\u2019t tried her treats\u2026it\u2019s time you did.  So the recipe for dessert is right <a href=\"http:\/\/petamall.com\/PLPShop.asp?RecordID=226\">here<\/a>.  All of her treats are scrumptious, vegan, and organic.  But her brownies are from another world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old Bay Tofu \u201cCrab\u201d Cakes<\/strong><br \/>\nThe recipe is from Chef Tal Ronnen, the founder of VegAdvantage and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.oprah.com\/foodhome\/food\/cleanse\/blog\/blog_2.jhtml\">chef for Oprah<\/a>!  They\u2019re delicious and easy.<\/p>\n<p>Try to plan ahead so you can make this the day before\u2014it\u2019s much easier to cook when it\u2019s had a chance to firm up in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>For the cakes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd cup onions, finely diced<br \/>\n\u00bd cup carrots, finely diced<br \/>\n2 Tb olive oil<br \/>\n2 tsp minced garlic<br \/>\n2# firm tofu<br \/>\n1.5 Tb cornstarch<br \/>\n\u00bc cup nutritional yeast<br \/>\n1\/8 cup white wine<br \/>\n1 Tb salt<br \/>\n1 tsp pepper<br \/>\nJuice of 1 lime<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Saut\u00e9 the onions and carrots in olive until soft, about 3 to 5 minutes.  Add the garlic and saut\u00e9 1 minute longer.  Cool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Add the remaining ingredients, mix well (I use a food processor), cool in the fridge for at least 30 minutes (preferably overnight).<\/p>\n<p>For the dredge:<\/p>\n<p>1.5 cups unsweetened soymilk<br \/>\n1.5 cups flour<br \/>\n1.5 cups breadcrumbs<br \/>\n3 Tb Old Bay seasoning<br \/>\n1 tsp salt<br \/>\nCanola oil for saut\u00e9ing<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Remove the tofu mixture from the fridge and form into small cakes, approximately 2 oz, by hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Put the flour in a bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Mix the breadcrumbs and Old Bay, put in a bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Mix the soymilk and salt, put in a bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Line the bowls up in this order:  Flour, soymilk, crumbs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Dip each cake in the flour, then the milk, then the crumbs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Saut\u00e9 on medium heat in the oil, until both sides are golden brown.  Keep warm in the oven.  Serve with the dipping sauce.  They re-heat beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>Dipping sauce:<\/p>\n<p>1 cup veganaise or Nayonaise<br \/>\n2 Tb Dijon mustard<br \/>\n1 Tb dill<br \/>\n2 Tb lemon juice<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;mix well, taste, adjust the seasoning and serve chilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had the honor of making dinner for the #1 top fundraiser for Team Vegan, Nancy, and 5 of her close friends. First prize was a gourmet vegan dinner for 6, including dishes! Nancy raised $3,025 to create more vegetarians, so it was an honor (and a blast) to cook for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}