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I’m sorry but tofu is not cheese nor does it taste anything like it, vegan cookbooks need to be better. Stop massacring time honored dishes with uncreative replacement ingredients (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by gueybana@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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You can’t just replace paneer with tofu and call a dish palak paneer you twat. Like replacing black beans with lentils and calling it black bean soup IT’S NOT THE SAME AND DOESN’T TASTE THE SAME.

I swear half the reason people hate veganism is the fucking half assed garbage cooking content put out by vegan incluencers.

‘Hi today I’m going to make a yummy vegan grilled cheese sandwich but instead of cheese I’m GOING TO USE FUCKING ELMER’S GLUE’ And This doesn’t just go for cheese

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[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

I was agreeing with your title but then I opened the post and I gotta disagree on this specific recipe. The paneer/tofu sub results in some pretty dank dishes.

[-] gueybana@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

No, I’m sorry. Ok, maybe you can make it taste really good. But don’t call it palak paneer because it probably doesn’t taste remotely the same. The texture of the ‘paneer’ or tofu in this instance, the consistency of the plate… it’s all different. Use a different, more appropriate ingredient than tofu, have some respect for the dish.