I'm making a vegan version of my usual mac and cheese recipe and I have the flavor of the sauce down almost perfectly but I'm looking for a good substitute for little crispy bits of bacon. It just needs to work texturally as something both crispy and chewy. Should I try using seitan, or experiment with tofu a bit. If anyone has some vegetable ideas lemme know because I'm not sure what would hold up structurally the best
The mac and cheese I had recently wasn't vegan but it had breadcrumbs on top (maybe about peppercorn sized?). After the whole thing was baked in the oven they became nice and crunchy and really took the place of something like a bacon crumble, probably wouldn't really work to replace strips of bacon though.