Perfect Vegan Chraime!

An easy recipe for perfect vegan chraime that includes soft, melt-in-your-mouth tofu patties full of flavor, bathed in a spicy red sauce.

I've been making this vegan chraime recipe continuously for several years. This time, I decided to upload it to the blog due to the many requests from friends who dipped their challah into this intensely spicy sauce.

Hand on heart, I don't know anyone who can resist a wide, steaming pot full of soft, tender tofu patties, swimming neck-deep in a spicy red sauce. Therefore, I love serving this dish on Friday night as a first course, of course, with fresh challah, just to hear the diners grunt "Ohhhhhhh" when the pot lands in front of them.

Although relatively speaking, this recipe is a bit more complicated (compared to other recipes on the blog), I promise that if you follow it step by step, you'll get a perfect dish of fragrant and delicious vegan chraime.

And there's a bonus: in addition to being a tasty, beautiful, and indulgent dish, it's also very healthy and nutritious.

Each patty with 3 tablespoons of sauce contains: 85 calories, 3.5 grams protein, 9 grams carbohydrates, 3.8 grams fat, 50 mg calcium, 0.8 mg iron.

Which means you can go wild with a pot of this vegan chraime!!! Just be careful with the Shabbat challah, okay?

Nutrition consultant and fitness instructor Noam Bachar:

"Besides the rich and refreshing taste that the spices in the recipe add, most of them are rich in good vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals.

For example, parsley is an excellent source of vitamins A and C, folic acid, iron, and calcium.

Coriander is attributed with anti-inflammatory properties and immune system boosting.

Tomatoes, botanically considered a fruit but culinarily a vegetable, are a huge source of lycopene, a component belonging to the carotenoid family, which acts as a powerful antioxidant with many health benefits such as: improving immune system function, preserving eye health, and even reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases and the like."

Another tofu patty recipe, but slightly different …

Perfect Vegan Chraime!

An easy recipe for perfect vegan chraime that includes soft, melt-in-your-mouth tofu patties full of flavor, bathed in a spicy red sauce. A perfect dish for a Shabbat meal.

Prep time 20 minutes

Total time 20 minutes

Servings 15 patties

Ingredients

For the patties

• 300 grams tofu
• 1 bunch parsley chopped
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 clove garlic crushed
• 1 level teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric

For the sauce

• 5 tablespoons olive oil
• 8 cloves garlic crushed
• 1 medium red pepper sliced
• 1 medium carrot thinly sliced
• 1 small sliced chili pepper omit if you don't like spicy
• 1 bunch parsley chopped
• 7 ripe tomatoes diced
• 2 tablespoons sweet paprika
• 1 tablespoon cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
• salt
• 5 cups water

Instructions

1. Start with the patties
2. In a food processor, blend the tofu until a firm mixture is obtained. If the mixture is too stiff, add a tablespoon of water.
3. Add the tofu mixture to a bowl with the parsley, chopped onion, breadcrumbs, olive oil, lemon, crushed garlic, and spices (cumin, paprika, and turmeric), and mix well.
4. With wet hands, form ping-pong sized balls and place them on a baking sheet.
   
5. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and bake for about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool thoroughly.
6. Continue with the sauce
7. In a wide, shallow pot (like a sauté pan), fry the crushed garlic with the oil for 2-3 minutes.
8. Add the rest of the ingredients, except for the water and spices, and continue to fry for another 3-4 minutes.
   
9. Add the spices and mix well.
   
10. Add the water and cook for about half an hour until the sauce thickens, then turn off the heat.
    
11. Place the patties in the pot, with the heat off, and serve.