Anyone tried this soya mince?

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Has anyone tried dried soya mince? Like this one? I’m not vegetarian but have veggie mince in the freezer as it’s great to cook from frozen and handy if only one portion needed. I’d not seen it dried before so am intrigued and wondering if it’s any good.

It is totally tasteless so you need to add lots of flavouring! I used to soak it in veg stock first to give it a bit of flavour. It is good for bulking out dishes but not so much on it's own.

I have used a different brand of dried soya mince. It was very cheap but yes, as Nemesia says, tasteless and only really good for bulking. It has a strange consistency. I used it for a bit and then went back to Quorn mince and the difference was amazing!

Hmm I suspected it might be tasteless! I guess it would be ok for a spag bol or chilli though? Or shall I just stick to Quorn or similar?

It really is just for added bulk, if you put it in a chilli or spag bol then you may even lose any texture it might have had. I think you'd be better off with lentils or the frozen veggie mince tbh, at least it keeps it's texture better when cooked.

I've been veggie for over 40 years, and when I was a teenager this was pretty much the only meat alternative you could buy - usually from the health food shop along with 'sos-mix' - a power that you added water to to make veggie sausages.
From memory it was all fine when used as an ingredient. But then you wouldn't just use the frozen veggie mince by itself either...

I buy the "savoury" version. Used to use it lots when the children were small for bulking out mince dishes and it was great

I don't find it tasteless but I do make extra effort to "add value" in the taste department as you don't have the meat to sear and get that depth of flavour

So I would ensure the onions and celery were properly sweated and starting to crisp, use a decent stock, a shake of Lea&Perrins, spoon ful of pesto for bolognaise, lots of good herbs...all that malarkey.

I just found half a bag in the back of the cupboard (sell by 2014 ) and made a really nice cottage pie with it ....dh did not even realise it was veggie.

I would sooner use this stuff than mushroom shite Quorn.

I may give it a go... will be handy to have in as a back up.

I make chilli with it. It’s fine if you add lots of flavour with onions, tomatoes, spices etc

I use it to make spag bol. Take a me back to my teenage years when it was about all you could get!

What blackink said. I can’t see the ingredients but assume this is what used to be known pre-quorn days as TVP (textured vegetable protein). You could buy it in a pack with the added powdered flavour for chilli/savoury/Bol too and the branded name was beanfeast.

It was very farty!

Quorn much better. Asda, Tesco and farmfoods all do a frozen TVP/soya meat alternative too which does have some flavour and is half the price of quorn. Nothing to stop you adding a handful of each for bulk.

For me, tvp is loads better than quorn for meals you'd normally cook with mince. Let it cook slowly for an hour or two, it makes delicious spaghetti bol especially if you add wine. Soaks it right up. I'll never use quorn mince again anyway.