Recipe: Delicious Vegan “tuna” pasta salad

Vegan “tuna” pasta salad. Our vegan tuna salad pasta is a quick, affordable lunch idea and also works well as a side dish. When we first tried a vegan tuna recipe we loved the taste so much that we decided to turn it into a pasta salad! My mom makes it, my sister makes it and both my husband and I make it.

It's a fabulous make-ahead pasta salad that's perfect for gatherings like I'm really pleased with how this tuna pasta salad turned out. In my opinion, it's a perfectly balanced meal. It has carbs from the pasta, protein. You could cook Vegan “tuna” pasta salad using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you create that.

Ingredients of Vegan “tuna” pasta salad

1. You need 2 tin of braised tofu.
2. Prepare of Lemon.
3. It's 2 sheets of tofu.
4. You need of Pasta.
5. It's of Onion.
6. Prepare of Carrot.
7. You need of Tomato.

These vegan "tuna" salad sandwiches, made with chickpeas, capers, and pickles, as well as tahini and mustard, have so much flavor. I've been sandwiching it between un-toasted three-seed bread, and my. Tuna gets jazzed up with jalepenos and a tangy lemon mayonnaise in this fun summer pasta salad. Serve over a bed of fresh iceburg lettuce.

Vegan “tuna” pasta salad guidance

1. Prep ingredients.
2. Cook pasta and chop veg. Roughly chop tomatoes, grate carrot and dice onion.
3. Drain brazed tofu and fork the flakes loose. Rip up nori into small bits and stir into tofu. Squeeze lemon over.
4. Once pasta is cooked and drain stir everything in together.
5. Add cheese if you like (this is vegan cheese).

Have you ever tried vegan "tuna"? I am fascinated by the amount of new vegan products out in the market nowadays. The taste wasn't super tuna-like but because the taste was so subtle and the texture was very similar, it really gave me the impression I was eating a tuna pasta salad! One of the natural food stores in my area has a great salad bar, where I love to get my vegetable-and-protein fix after a long trail run. They have a vegan tuna salad (as in "tuna") that I put on top of my greens every time.