Vegetarian Foods/Tempeh and Tofu

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Expert: Paulette Ann Leibowitz - 10/26/2009


Question
I just became a vegitarian for better health.  Can you give me some great tasting recipes using tempeh and Tofu?  Which one is healthier and lower in sodium.  I also need to lose a lot of weight.

Thank you in advance for any information you can share with me.

Answer
Good luck but be careful - if a recipe calls for a lot of fat (oil or butter), it is most likely not a healthy one for losing weight.  All vegetarian recipes are not diet recipes.

First of all, here's a site with ways to prepare tempeh in general...

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/tips-techniques/five-ways-to-prepare-tempeh-0...

i suggest you read all of matteo silverman's article about vegetarian foods...
http://www.vegcooking.com/chef-MatteoSilverman.asp

these are additional hints about what you can do with tempeh...
http://www.foodbuzz.com/blogs/us/nevada/reno/71656-aug-11-how-to-prepare-tempeh

here are many tempeh recipes...
http://www.tempeh.info/

these are low fat tofu recipes...
http://www.fatfree.com/recipes/tofu/

here are other tofu recipes...
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/maindishentreerecipes/qt/tofurecipes.htm

if the recipe doesn't share a caloric value, you can enter the receipe here to find out it's calories and makeup...
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

enjoy,
chef paulette  

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I can answer almost any question asked of me as I have a vast knowledge of all food including my field of vegetarian cuisine. I have been a vegetarian my entire life and opened a vegetarian restaurant when I moved to Atlanta 18 years ago. I now run a personal chef business in Atlanta and all of my customers love my food. I also work on Chefsline.com which is the culinary hotline for food questions. I spend most of my week answering questions from thousands of people about all types of food.

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