soy joy

I love soy beans. They are SO flavorful. I especially love to eat them with with shells, boiled, with butter and salt {otherwise known as edamame}. I am also growing some in my garden.

So when I saw the soy meat recipe in  Essentials of Home Production and StorageI was super excited to try it for my food storage experiment.

You need:

1 pound mashed and shelled soybeans
1 c. wheat flour
2 eggs
1 TBSP. salt
1 tsp. garlic
1 tsp. oregano
1 tsp. basil

Mix all ingredients together. Add to a hot pan of oil. Cook on medium for a few hours turning occasionally until brown and crusty. Use in place of ground meat.

* Okay…my take. I used whatever seasonings sounded good to me. I think I used garlic, onion, and season salt. Mashing the soy beans was interesting.

I don’t know if I just didn’t cook the beans long enough but they didn’t really mash. I wondered about blending them up in my blender but I wondered if it would ruin the flavor or make it too chewy.

I also only cooked it for just over an hour and thought that was plenty of time.

Here it is after about 30 min.

And here it is at less than 1 1/2 hours.

I think it tasted good at 30 minutes but admittedly much less like ground beef.