Vegan Tempeh Curry Recipe - Elephantastic Vegan (2024)

This vegan Tempeh Curry is made with delicious tempeh chunks in a creamy tomato cashew sauce. It’s quick and easy to make! It’s best served with rice and naan.

Tempeh – some hate it, some love it, most don’t know it. It took me a while to give tempeh a try because let’s face it: ‘soybeans coated in fungus’ does not sound that appealing. BUT it’s totally worth it!

Tempeh is great at soaking up flavor and makes the perfect protein-rich addition to this creamy tomato cashew curry! Tempeh has twice the amount of protein compared to tofu.

Pro-tip for buying tempeh: If you want to spend a lot of $$$ on mini tempeh, buy it at health food stores. If you want to spend little $ on lots of tempeh, buy it at Asian markets.

What I love about this curry:

• It’s the perfect comfort food! Nothing gives my belly a hug like a bowl of hot, creamy curry, basmati rice, and homemade naan. It’s the best.
• It’s super easy and quick to make. The curry sauce consists of chopped, canned tomatoes and homemade cashew sauce (which you can easily substitute with unsweetened soy cream or coconut milk if you want). Add some tempeh, onions, ginger, spices, and done. That’s the short version.
• It’s versatile. You can make this curry with whatever you have at home. Fancy different protein sources – tofu, seitan, jackfruit, chickpeas? You can also add in veggies such as thinly sliced carrots, peas, or cauliflower.

How to make this Tempeh Curry

The Ingredients

You will need:

• For the tempeh:
  • tempeh
  • mustard seeds (optional)
  • ground cumin (can substitute with different spices such as garam masala)
• For the cashew sauce*:
  • soaked roasted cashews – you can also use unroasted cashews and roast them in the oven or in a pan. If you use salted roasted cashews, skip the rest of the salt in the cashew cream recipe.
  • water
• onion
• ginger – preferably fresh
• canned, diced tomatoes
• salt
• oil – I used canola oil but you can use whatever you like best.

*If you don’t want to make the cashew sauce, you can also use unsweetened soy cream or full-fat coconut milk instead.

The basic steps

You can find the whole written recipe in the box at the end of the post. But I want to give you an overview of the preparation process first.

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