Fun with tofu: two eye-candy recipes. 21 February 2008 10:57 am
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, cooking, vegan, vegetarian , add a commentA long time ago when the world was young, I once spent an entire week’s worth of lunches teaching myself how to make fried tofu. I used it barely drained, straight from the package; I used it pressed, I used it frozen and thawed. Also I used a lot of oil, and I can’t remember whether or not I used a nonstick pan. Somehow, amidst all those permutations, I never tried the method by which I usually cook tofu these days: cut into the desired final size, and drained on paper towels, more or less à la Jack Bishop’s suggestions in A Year In a Vegetarian Kitchen. I don’t marinate it beforehand: raw (by which I mean straight from the package) or cooked, tofu is basically a sponge for other flavors, so as long as it eventually spends time in a hot pan with a sauce of some kind, it’ll absorb some deliciousness besides the crunchy goodness that is its fried form. I generally don’t pre-marinate baked tofu, either; in my experience it turns out fine as long as it goes in the oven with some sauce (although I should experiment with baking marinated tofu on the theory that it would require less sauce and therefore result in easier pan cleanup).
All of which is to say: hey everybody, I found some good-looking tofu recipes for you to check out! (more…)
