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LEVEL: easy Cook: 15 minutes Prepare: 15 minutes Total: 30 minutes 2 portions

Tempeh Vegan Ribs

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Best way to enjoy tempeh?  Serve it covered with a smooth slightly sweetened BBQ sauce. This recipe can also be a success if you grill the tempeh before pouring the sauce over it. You can use this Tempeh BBQ to replace a hamburger patty and it’s also delicious in your salad! Leftovers? Re-heat, re-warm or freeze it without losing its full taste. 

Ingredients

1/4 cup ketchup (60 ml)
1/4 cup soy sauce (60 ml)
1/4 cup maple syrup (60 ml)
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
1 tsp onion powder
2 tsp liquid smoke
1/2 cup vegetable broth (125 ml)
250 g tempeh

Directions

1
In a skillet or a small saucepan, combine ketchup, soy sauce, maple syrup, crushed red pepper, onion powder, liquid smoke and vegetable broth.
2
Bring to a boil and add the tempeh.
3
Reduce the heat and let it simmer until the sauce has thickened turning the tempeh once halfway through cooking.
4
Remove the tempeh from the sauce, baste with the rest of the sauce and serve. in a bun, with a salad or fries.

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19 comment

  2. jacqui
    Reply

    at the grocery store in the fridge section. I get mine at sprouts. I have seen it at vons/safeway. i’m sure whole foods and trader joes has it as well, and ralphs, albertsons. At sprouts its with the vegan products like tofu in the dairy case. At vons/safeway/albertsons they keep that stuff in the salad section.

  3. Linda
    Reply

    Would this one work with firm or extra firm tofu, I wonder? You’d need to be careful with the turning over, but can’t see why it wouldn’t, although I’d probably fry the tofu slices first, to firm and crisp them.
    The only tempeh I can get locally is VERY expensive compared with tofu, which I can get from most supermarkets, and is quite reasonably priced.

  4. cheryl L Knapp
    Reply

    I think I would like to try the tofu over the Tempe. We slice hours about quarter to half-inch thick, baystone was some Bragg’s Liquid Aminos, and put them in a George Foreman grill that would really make them taste good and then you can put the barbecue sauce over

  5. Linda
    Reply

    thanks for the tip about the George foreman grill Cheryl, never thought of doing tofu that way, deffo going to try it!

  7. anne-marie
    Reply

    Hi! I tried it with bragg sauce instead and it was way too salty…i never realised that bragg sauce was more salty than traditionnal soy sauce. Do you think that half the quantity would be a good amount of bragg sauce? Thank you from a huge fan!

    I made your fall spices granola today, everybody enjoys it !

  8. Kyra Jansen
    Reply

    I followed the recipe exactly and even used home made (no salt) broth and found it to be very very salty. Maybe I was using the wrong brand of soy sauce?

  9. Lu
    Reply

    Do you steam your Tempeh first? I have always steamed my but it appears that you placed your directly on the pan. Thanks

  10. Linda
    Reply

    could be the Ketchup was too salty, some of them have a lot of salt in them, and you’re reducing the liquid further when you make this. Also, make sure you use onion powder, not onion salt! (easy mistake to make). Don’t know about liquid smoke, don’t use it, but sounds as if it might be salty as well. If in doubt, go for low/no salt everything!

  12. Wesleis
    Reply

    I thought my measurements were wrong, but as soon as the sauce thickened I was relieved. Amazing recipe! Personally I would replace tempeh for firm tofu because tempeh has a really strong nutty taste that doesn’t match with the barbecue sauce.

  13. Alex
    Reply

    If I cook this according to the recipe (i.e. not really marinating the tempeh, just cooking it in the sauce), the tempeh flavor still really comes through. However the sauce ingredients make up an awesome marinade which I have used to make tempeh bacon bits. Just mix all the sauce ingredients together. Cut some tempeh into 1/2 inch dice and marinate it in this sauce for several hours or even up to a few days. These can then be fried up until a little crispy.

  14. Daphne
    Reply

    I have made this dish a lot of times, but noe i want te serve it on a bbq. Can i prepare the ribs as usual and them put it on the bbq for a few minutes? Maybe in aluminium foil?

  15. Daphne van der zaken
    Reply

    I have made this dish a lot of times, but noe i want te serve it on a bbq. Can i prepare the ribs as usual and them put it on the bbq for a few minutes? Maybe in aluminium foil?

  18. Laura
    Reply

    Thank you, excellent recipe! I cut my rectangular tempeh brick into about 8 thinner slices, and the sauce coated it all generously. Tried just 1 tsp of liquid smoke, and it was perfect for us. Thanks again–love your recipes. : )

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