Whew, this summer has been so busy! So much happening in my life right now.
Girls Rock camp starts on Monday and I am super excited to help feed people there.
Today I was in the grocery and came across Daiya’s new salad dressings. I was intrigued by the blue cheese one. I never really liked blue cheese, and I hated chunky versions of the dressing. I only liked it if it was smooth. But I decided to purchase it on a whim, and then suddenly had the great idea to make something buffalo style to accompany it.
I came up with a recipe for buffalo soy curls.
The recipe is as follows:
Ingredients:
- 1 bag Butler Soy Curls
- Water to cover soy curls
- 1/4 cup chickpea (garbanzo bean) flour
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1 bottle Frank’s Red Hot sauce
Directions:
- Soak soy curls in a bowl covered with water for 10 minutes.
- Turn oven to broil.
- Drain soy curls.
- Place flour, nutritional yeast, garlic and onion powders, and pepper in a ziplock bag.
- Toss soy curls into ziplock bag.
- Spray a wide-rim baking sheet sprayed with cooking oil.
- Dump out soy curls out of bag and spray the tops of the soy curls with oil.
- Place in the broiler for about 5 minutes (watch them carefully, every oven broils slightly different, you may require more or less time).
- Toss, flip, or stir soy curls around a bit. Place back in the broiler for 2 minutes.
- When the soy curls are starting to get crisp and slightly brown, take out of the broiler and pour the hot sauce on top.
- Broil for another minute, then take out of the oven.
- Serve with celery and vegan blue cheese.
REVIEW OF THE DAIYA BLUE CHEESE DRESSING:
Despite my reservations, I was quite impressed. It’s been ages since I’ve had the real thing, but once I tasted it I had to re-check the ingredients to make sure Daiya hadn’t pulled a fast one on me. It’s very convincing and there’s no chunkiness. Woohoo! It’s perfect for taming buffalo stuff.
Hope your summer is going well too!
Banana Curl, Vegan Girl 
Hi! This looks yummy. I buy my soy curls in bulk – can you provide an approximate measurement for the one bag? Thanks!
Yes, the bag says 8 oz. I believe it measures out to be 2.5-3 cups maybe? Sorry for my delay in response
Going by my kitchen scale 8 oz is 4 cups of dried curls. I use the 12 lb bag too so I was curious.
What size of bags and bottles are you using for this recipe? There are a lot of different sizes so saying a bottle or a bag is a little ambiguous.
The soy curls I buy, which are Butler soy curls, come in 8oz packages. As I mentioned above in the comments, my guess is that the dry measurement is about 2.5-3 cups. I haven’t made this recipe in awhile, so I don’t know the exact ounces on the bottle of hot sauce. I do know that it was the standard size one, not the extra large or unusually small one. I’m guessing it is also around 8 oz (a cup) of sauce but I have to double check again. I’m not sure if I am able to go back this far to edit the recipe with the information, but I will try