Have you guys ever heard of New Joe's Special? It comes from a restaurant in California called Joe's. Joe's became New Joe's after it burned down. The special at New Joe's was a dish with lots of spinach and ground beef and egg. My mom figured out the recipe, and made it all the time. I grew up eating it. But ever since I've gone vegan I've craved it. Not in the OH I NEED MEAT kind of way but in the "this is a comforting food from my childhood" kind of way. So I decided to veganize it. Enjoy.
Ingredients
- 16 ounces tofu
- 6 cups of baby spinach
- 1 cup chopped mushrooms
- 2 cloves chopped garlic
- 1-3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
- 2 tablespoons ground flax seed
- 2 cups water
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Directions
- Mix the flax seed and 6 tablespoons water in a bowl. Put in the fridge to gel.
- Drain the tofu by putting it between two paper towels and pressing out the water.
- Chop the tofu into cubes.
- Fry the tofu in the oil in a large pan on high heat.
- Once it has browned, add the mushrooms and garlic.
- Stir until brown.
- Add spinach and stir.
- Take the bowl of flax seed water out of the fridge and add the nutritional yeast. Stir in the rest of the water slowly until the nutritional yeast/flax is dissolved.
- Move the spinach/tofu/mushrooms mixture to one side of the pan and add the nutritional yeast to the other side.
- Slowly incorporate the two sides of the pan.
- Stir until the nutritional yeast is no longer sticking to the bottom of the pan. Add salt and pepper and serve!
