How To Make Vegan Bacon

Prepare The Bacon-Flavored Marinade

• Add to a bowl with soy sauce, liquid smoke, smoked paprika, garlic powder, and nutritional yeast, and stir until well combined.

• Two tablespoons of the marinade should be placed in a small bowl (to marinate the tofu), and the rest should be poured onto a large plate. Use the rice paper strips to dip into the sauce.
• Let 2 tbsp of the marinade soak in a bowl along with 1/4 of a block of firm tofu while preparing the rice paper. Then drain and press the excess liquid out of a block of firm tofu.

• Cut the rice paper into long strips about 1 1/2 inches wide. You can layer up to 4 sheets of bacon on top of each other when cutting them to save time (a little wider than you want the final strip to be since it will shrink slightly when cooked).

The Bacon Must Be Assembled 

1. On a cookie sheet, spread two tablespoons of oil. Lining the sheet with parchment paper will prevent the oil from getting on the cookie.
2. Soak a small piece of rice paper in the marinade for a few seconds.  Just get it coated with the mixture, don’t let it soak and become soft.
3. Sprinkle the marinated tofu crumbles over the oiled cookie sheet.
4. Lay another rice paper strip on top of the first and dip it in the marinade. Initially, the rice paper won’t adhere to the bottom layer. The tofu inside will seal and fuse if you cook them together.
5. Using the same process, continue to add bacon strips to the sheet until the sheet is covered with them, but they do not touch.

Bacon Must Be Cooked

• At 400 degrees F, bake the cookie sheet for 7 minutes.
• Once the pieces are out of the oven, flip them over and bake again for about seven more minutes until the edges curl up and it becomes crispy.