Easy but tasty tofu recipe?

[Hot4Holes]

Have never tried tofu before but am keen to cut down our meat intake so would like to give it a try.
Does anyone have any good recipes? The tub I bought states it’s silken tofu if that makes any difference?
Thanks!

[1Wanda1]

Silken tofu is very soft and doesn't hold its shape, so can't be used for anything requiring cubes or chunks of tofu.

I use silken tofu very successfully to replace the ricotta in spinach and ricotta cannelloni. No one can ever tell it isn't ricotta. Defrost half a bag of whole leaf frozen spinach, and squeeze all the excess water out of the spinach. Put it in a large bowl with 1 pack of drained silken tofu, season well with salt and pepper, and add a generous grating of fresh nutmeg. Sometimes I add a couple of tbsps of grated parmesan. Mix all together and use to fill cannelloni tubes. Make a simple tomato sauce, spread half in the bottom of a shallow serving dish large enough to take the cannelloni in one layer. Lay the filled cannelloni on top, then top with more sauce. Finally, slice up a ball of of mozzarella and lay the slices on top. Hot oven 30 mins. Delicious with garlic bread!

[Hot4Holes]

Oh that sounds delicious, will try that later in the week. Thank you!

[magimedi]

There are some lovely tofu recipes in THIS THREAD

The tofu satay I've linked to is yummy & really very easy. I know it's a long recipe but i just tried to write it out so it was totally clear. It's also lovely cold for snacks with any leftovers.

Firm tofu is best for savoury recipes.

[cucumbergin]

You can make tofu scramble with silken tofu - lots of nice sounding recipes out there but basically you fry it up with some veg & spices (to give it a bit of flavour as otherwise the tofu is pretty bland) and the texture ends up a bit like scrambled eggs.

You can use whatever veg or flavours you like - I like frying up a chopped onion, sliced mushrooms, maybe some cherry tomatoes, then add tofu, half a tsp turmeric, bit of salt & black pepper to season, then eat it on toast for breakfast. But you can change the veg & spices and then eat it in a wrap too - tofu scramble is pretty versatile.