You can’t just replace paneer with tofu and call a dish palak paneer you twat. Like replacing black beans with lentils and calling it black bean soup IT’S NOT THE SAME AND DOESN’T TASTE THE SAME.
I swear half the reason people hate veganism is the fucking half assed garbage cooking content put out by vegan incluencers.
‘Hi today I’m going to make a yummy vegan grilled cheese sandwich but instead of cheese I’m GOING TO USE FUCKING ELMER’S GLUE’ And This doesn’t just go for cheese
The whole idea of general-purpose substitutions for ingredients is silly. Nooch is a great powdered cheesy flavoring for a snack. Those imitation cheese slices made out of, like, compressed soybean oil or some nonsense, are great on a sandwich. If you swap them around, they're nonsensical. Foods have complex chemistry and different recipes are built around different properties of those foods.