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This Crispy Sesame Tempeh recipe is easy, flavorful, and has the best texture! Create a healthy vegan bowl with brown rice and veggies and dinner is good to go!

Crispy Sesame Tempeh Recipe 

tempeh,

soy sauce (or gluten-free liquid Aminos)

salt

olive oil

salt and fresh cracked pepper

soy sauce

mirin or water

maple syrup

rice wine vinegar

sesame oil

garlic, finely minced

ginger, finely minced, optional

sriracha

sesame seeds

salt and pepper

½ cups cooked brown rice or sub other cooked whole grain.

broccoli

scallions

soy sauce (or gluten-free liquid aminos)

tahini paste

sriracha, more to taste

rice vinegar

maple syrup.

Simmer

Cut tempeh into ¾ inch cubes, place in a medium pot, and cover with water (just enough to reach the top of the tempeh). Add soy sauce and salt.  Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer on medium-low heat for 10 minutes.

Stir Fry Sauce

Whisk together the Sticky Sesame Stir-Fry Sauce ingredients in a small bowl and set by the stove. 

Steam

After the tempeh has simmered for 10 minutes, feel free to steam broccoli florets overtop of the tempeh.  If the pot needs a little more liquid, add more water (again to the level of the tempeh), place the broccoli florets over the tempeh, cover, and steam for 3-4 minutes or until the broccoli is tender-crisp.  Using tongs, remove the broccoli and set it aside. Drain the tempeh and pat dry.

Crisp

In a large skillet, heat the olive oil  over medium heat. Season the oil with salt and pepper. Carefully add the tempeh to the seasoned oil and brown each side until deeply golden. Take your time here!  Pour in the sauce, reducing by half, spooning the sauce over the tempeh. It will thicken as it reduces. Turn heat off and taste and adjust salt level and heat level to your taste. 

Assemble

Divide rice among bowls and top with steamed broccoli and any other veggies. Divide tempeh. Sprinkle with scallions and spoon with optional Soy Joy Sauce! 

We really enjoyed this. I used TJ’s  coconut liquid aminos and felt it needed more salt but once I  added that at the end like you suggested, it was perfect. I wonder if it is less salty than soy sauce? It was nice to steam the broccoli at the same time too.

We loved all the flavors in this bowl. This way of cooking the tempeh  - boiling then adding the sticky sauce and reducing - made the bitter tempeh taste perfect! We're under rainy skies in Memphis, TN - no wolf moon, but the carnivores in my family didn't complain that I had sneaked in a veggie bowl! Thanks, Sylvia!

Delicious! We want to try it with tofu as well, just for fun :)

This was my introduction to tempeh and I was surprised how good it was!
My meat-loving husband was skeptical, but he finished his portion so that says more than his words!  I served it hot with rice and the steamed broccoli without any sauce(did not have some of the key ingredients on hand) and it was very tasty.  I did put on some Bachman’s Japanese Barbecue Sauce and enjoyed very much for dinner and reheated for lunch the next day.

Tonight is the second time making this in two weeks…we love it that much. It comes together quickly and tastes delicious!

Just made this today . Excellent recipe for vegans . Very flavorful . For vegetables I used Enoki mushrooms, bok choy , bell peppers and shredded carrots . It was a very nutritious , filling bowl . I used brown basmati rice . It was a perfect bowl . My family loved it . Definitely will be doing it again . Thanks Silvia .

Another excellent recipe - I made this as a bowl with brown basmati, avocado, carrot, bell peppers, and cabbage. I skipped the broccoli, but made the sauce. Absolute keeper, will go into the weekly rotation with our other vegan faves from this site (drunken noodles, coconut bowls, sesame noodles). My only regret is that I didn’t double the recipe, so no leftovers this time!

Another winner! I am working my way through your bowl recipes and all of them are so good. Hard to say which is my favourite so far but this one is definitely a contender. So delicious I am already looking forward to eating it again. I love how simple it was to put together and that I could make some of the components early.  I made both the stir fry sauce and the peanut sauce earlier and prepped the tempeh, purple cabbage and broccoli so it was  pretty effortless and quick to do the final cooking. Thank you so much for easy, delicious, nutritious recipes.

This was so tasty and a really unique dinner (for us, anyway). I'd never cooked tempeh, but, with this recipe, it has a new fan! It was much easier than tofu. Thank you!

We enjoyed the tempeh and stir fry sauce as in the recipe. We also added fried onions, Asian stir fry greens and steamed squash to the pan after the stir fry sauce cooked with the tempeh. We ate it over rice. 
We will make this again.

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