Tofu recipes please

[CountessDracula]

Bought some today and have little idea what to do with it other than marinating in stuff for a stir fry.

Anyone?

That would be about right
Don't go down the road of whipping it with carob and putting it in a hazelnut flan base unless your life depended on it.

It is nice cubed and dipped very lightly in cornflour and fried and topped with satay sauce and served with crunchy stir fry veg especially beansprouts

Here's a variation of a Nigel Slater recipe.It's absolutely delicious.

Marinate the tofu in light soy sauce for 10 mins.
Make some cous cous according to instructions on packet.
Fry some sliced onion and garlic.Add pine nuts and raisins and good hanful of chopped parsley.
Add tofu and fry it.
Add cooked cous cous and serve.

Layla sounds good apart from the cous cous (which I find like eating spoonfuls of sawdust!) May try with rice or noodles instead.

Suzywong, thanks but frying is out as am on SW diet.

Come on you lot, someone must have some more ideas!

Why are all my veggie mates always going on about how wonderful and versatile it is then? Humph.

Will email one,

CD, There are lots of recipes but I am useless at remembering in my head, at work. All books are at home of course. Some nice recipes in Cranks Bible, including one for tofu, sweet potato, avocado and cherry tomato salad in which you roast the tofu in the oven, and always seem to be various ones on the actual tofu cardboard packet, involving using it in soup, quiches, etc by mashing it up. You can substitute tofu for paneer in Indian recipes. You can also make it into scrambled eggs just by mashing it up and scrambling like eggs(but we eat eggs anyway so did not really appreciate this) and surely you can just mash it up and add it to anything you are boiling, baking or roasting. I think unless you get smoked tofu, or marinade it yourself, it is tasteless, so you have to add it to something else with a good flavour, but you can add it to pretty much anything precisely because it has no strong flavour.

STUFFED BEANCURD

1. get some hard tofu , and cut into squares , abt the size of a name card but 1.5 inch thick.
2. mix together some minced pork, spring onion, chooped water chestnut and season with soy sauce, white pepper, oyster sauce (if u ahve) and some cornstarch to bind it all together
3. scoop out the middle of the tofu and suff with the meat mixture...press firmly
4. either a) shallow fry on both sides , carefully so as not to collapse the tofu or b) steam
5. then seve with some black bean sauce or just on its own ! You can bar jars of the black bean sauce

ALSO ... Good in soups like Miso Soup .

Scrambled Tofu
It has been awhile since I made it so am abit foggy on the recipe but you mash up tofu - add tumeric (yellow like and egg now!) Add some all purposes seasoning - whatever is your personal preference (pp) is probably best.

Put it on toast!

tofu hotpot with miso (again my own creation so no measurements really)

fry an onion gently until soft
add a clove or so of garlic (pp)
then add cornflour to make a roux

Add water - depends on how many people you are making it for. 1 litre is good for 2 people.

Add diced veges to the pot -
I like aubergine (leave them first to sweat cut into strips and salt both sides - about 20 mins)
Mushrooms, spinach - anything else in the fridge!

Add a good slice of ginger
Let vege cook - then add some vege stock and a good amount of black pepper - more if you like it abit of a bite to your food.

Add a little soy sauce ( not too much though or it will go salty)
Finally take off element and add miso (do not boil again)
I sometimes add abit of lemon juice.
and wheres that tofu!!
If you like it fried do that earlier and then add at the last - but if you like it plain add alittle earlier so it absorbs afew flavours.
We marinade ours in honey, ginger and soy for about 20mins before frying

hope this makes sense

Eat with noodles or rice.

do a search on the net for tofu recipes.
You will find LOADS!!