Indian cooking is one of our favorite international cuisines. Its bold flavors of cumin, coriander, ginger, and turmeric make it totally distinctive from any other food type! However, if you’re a vegetarian or vegan, you might be hard-pressed to find any options that have few or no animal products, should you ever walk into your standard Indian restaurant!
That said, we know our vegan readers will be ecstatic with today’s meal prep recipe—A tofu tikka masala! Anyone who has had traditional tikka masala will tell you that the flavors of the sauce get “locked in” to beautifully compliment the chicken, Fortunately, the same effect happens with tofu, so now you can enjoy this dish without having to consume any meat! We recommend using extra firm tofu to achieve a texture that is as close as possible to chicken.
The origins and history of the many varieties of tikka masala are up for debate. Many experts believe that it originated in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. During that time, most Indian restaurants were owned by natives of Pakistan or Bangladesh, so it is thought that tikka masala was invented by a migrant chef from one of those countries. Legend has it that its conception actually came about in a moment of genius improvisation in a Glasgow kitchen! Tikka masala is, after all, not a traditional Indian dish! To this day, it remains one of the UK's most popular foods.
This amazing vegan tofu tikka masala does your body so much good, because it eliminates traditional white rice, and replaces it with cauliflower rice. 1 cup of white rice, with nothing on it or in it, constitutes a nap-inducing 45g of carbohydrates. 1 cup of cauliflower rice, on the other hand, has just 5g of carbs! That’s nine times fewer carbs than traditional white rice! Cauliflower is also very nourishing, containing 77% of your recommended daily intake (RDI) of vitamin C, 20% of your vitamin K RDI, and 14% of your RDI of folate. It is very high in fiber, containing 3g (10% your RDI) per cup.
You certainly won’t be going hungry with this vegan tofu tikka masala recipe, because it is absolutely packed with nutrients guaranteed to fill you up! Per serving, you get 13g of protein, 19g of fat, and a hunger-smashing 8g of fiber! All that, and we are happy to tell you that this tofu tikka masala only has 313 calories per serving! We love this meal prep recipe because it really covers all your bases as a vegan or vegetarian, and gets you nice and full!
Before you spend a small fortune to eat at an Indian restaurant, consider making this vegan tofu tikka masala instead—Especially if you’re vegan or vegetarian. We think it’s every bit as delicious as its non-veg counterpart! If you love Indian food as much as we do, take a look at our Vegan Chickpea Curry Basmati Rice for your next week of prepped meals. New to meal prep? Check out our Ultimate Guide to Meal Prep Containers to help get you started.
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This was just ok. Too tomatoey and did not have the right flavor for tikka Masala.
Hi Et, thank you for your feedback. What do you feel was missing from the flavor in this recipe?