BLT Without The B
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Recipe type: Lunch, Dinner
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Serves: 2
 
A homemade version of the TLT sandwich at True Food Kitchen! Think a BLT without the B.
Ingredients
  • 1 avocado
  • 6 tomato slices, roughly ½ inch thin
  • ½ cup mixed greens
  • 4 large slices of whole-grain or house-baked bread
  • For cashew cheeze:
  • 1 cup cashews, soaked in water for 4 hours or overnight
  • ½ cup vegetable broth
  • 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • Himalayan pink sea salt
  • Black pepper
  • ½ tsp garlic powder
  • For tempeh "bacon":
  • ½ block of tempeh
  • 2 tsp liquid aminos, or tamari (gluten-free soy sauce)
  • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
  • ½ tablespoon maple syrup
  • ½ tsp cumin
  • Dash of red pepper flakes
Instructions
  1. Begin by prepping your tempeh and cashew cheese the night before you make your sandwiches. Soak your cashews in water overnight.
  2. For your tempeh, mix aminos, acv, maple syrup, cumin and red pepper flakes in a small tupperware container. Cut ½ a block of tempeh into ½ inch pieces and let sit in the marinade overnight.
  3. In the morning or follow afternoon, drain and rinse your cashews and blend in a food processor or blender with vegetable broth, nutritional yeast, salt, pepper and garlic powder. It should be creamy and not too runny. Add more veg broth if too thick! Set aside.
  4. Take tempeh out of the marinade and place on a baking sheet. Preheat oven to 375ยบ and bake tempeh on each side for 15 minutes each. You want it crispy!
  5. Time for the sandwich (to make one):
  6. Toast your bread and spread ½ avocado onto both sides. Follow by ¼ cup or a handful of lettuce, 2 tbsp of your cashew cheeze (you'll have some leftover! yay!), and 3 tomato slices. Lastly, add about 5-6 tempeh strips and place other slice of bread on top. Cut in half.
  7. Enjoy your little plant-based sammy! :)
Recipe by Chickpea in the City at https://chickpeascity.com/bltwithoutb/