Vegan Beefless Tips with Polenta and Peppers

Vegan Beefless Tips with Polenta and Peppers

This recipe has all of the delicious flavors of a tamale, but it can be prepared in half the time!

This dish is vegan.

 

 

Serves 2

Ingredients

 1 package Gardein Beefless Tips
1 cup cooked, firmed polenta
2 chopped roma tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped onions
1/4 cup chopped green peppers
2 tablespoon olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

Directions

Polenta
In order to cook the polenta, we will follow the same steps as we did for making Polenta fries.  Bring two cups of water to a boil.  Add the 1/2 cup of yellow corn meal and simmer.  You will need to stir the mixture very frequently.  Simmer this mixture for about twenty minutes, slowly adding the last cup of water throughout.  Add the salt, pepper and parsley.  Keep stirring :)  When the polenta begins to pull away from the walls of the pot, you are done.

 Now pour your polenta into a 2 x 4 glass container.  Let the polenta cool to room temperature.  Cover it and place it in the fridge for at least 2 hours and up to 24 hours.

After the polenta has cooled for at least two hours.  Remove it from the fridge and slice it into bite size pieces.

  

Coat a cookie sheet with 1 tablespoon of olive oil.  Place the polenta slices on the pan and into an oven that has been preheated to 450 degrees.  Cook for 30 minutes, flipping the polenta fries every 15 minutes.  Salt and pepper to taste.

Beefless Tips and Peppers 

Preheat a pan to medium heat.  Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil into the pan and add the package of Beefless Tips.  Cover and cook for 15 minutes, or until they have completely thawed.  Uncover the pan, add the onions and pepper and toss all of the ingredients together.  Cook for an additional 10 minutes. 

Plating

Now that all of our ingredients are cooked, it's time to plate.  The polenta is the base of the dish, so it goes down first.  Top the polenta with the beefless tips and peppers.  Finish by adding the chopped roma tomatoes.  Salt and Pepper to taste.  Enjoy!