I was just wondering if any of you cook with tofu. Do you have any good recipes? Do you like tofu?
I bought some the other day and figured that I would try it.

I look forward to seeing some recipes here... I had a block of Tofu in my hand the other day. I didn't want to buy it if I didn't have a specific recipe in mind first though.

I had thought about making chicken and broccoli or chicken and mushroom stirfry with it.

Right, so, I've been cooking with Tofu for fifteen years. What kinda stuff do you wanna know about it?

If you're planning on making any regular food with it, buy the firm or extra firm. If you're going for desert, try the soft ones.

If you freeze it, it gets a whole different texture, FYI.

It does stirfry exceptionally well. I usually just cube it, and toss it in the stirfry. Be sure to stir it frequently, as tofu will stick to pans and leave a nasty mess if it burns, and it can be sensitive to stirfry heat.

I always eat it with some sort of sauce. Which is why I like stirfry - the sauce is kinda built in. It does excellently (IMO) with soy sauce, or things of that nature.

You can put it in pasta sauce (cubed as well) and have it on pasta.

There's also an excellent recipe for mock-tuna-salad using frozen tofu (it must've been frozen for the texture to be right) that I don't have on hand, but I imagine you can google it.

For breakfast, you can squash it and mix it with your scrambled eggs, adding cheese is a favorite of mine for that, or use it to replace your scrambled eggs (cumin works great with this for color / flavor).

You can also grill it and put it on sandwiches.

Basically, it can do anything. Hope those suggestions help somewhat... Ask away if you want more, I'm just thinking off the top of my head.

(Oh, I also like them thrown in with just about any vegetable. Like tofu and peas, or beans and tofu, and then you just add your rice/pasta/main dish, and it's all good.)

I get the extra firm very often and our favorite thing is to either add it to lasagna instead of meat, or I cube it a little bigger and sautee it in a little olive oil with herbs and roasted red peppers/carmelized onions. We put that over pasta or in a pita as a sandwich. It's really good.

I (L) tofu Thanks for the ideas :yes

Thanks ladies. I had no idea that you could do so much with it.

I like to substitute it for meat in Lo Mein with lots of stir fried veggies

i <3 tofu
we buy firm tofu
30 minutes before i work with it i put 3 paper towels underneath it (folded) and another on top of it and put a plate on top to help drain it. cube it, and sear it in a thin layer of corn oil.
add about a 1/3 cup of chicken broth, throw in some chopped up broccoli for about 7 minutes or until tender but crispy, add the tofu back in, pour in a ton of oyster sauce and some corn starch let it simmer until sauce thickens :)

no need for salt, oyster sauce is good for that enjoy!

I'm going to try that ^

Thanks :)

We stir fry it. We've made kabobs with it and grilled it. The trick as Del said is to use sauce with it. My SIL and Brother are Vegans and my SIL makes this soy sauce, garlic powder, onion powder etc. mix ( I wish I still had it written down somewhere) and she soaks the tofu in it and then cubes it and cooks it. It's liek a mini appitizer.

I'm going to try that ^

Thanks :)

awesome
just remember to taste as you cook
i would give you specific directions but i never measure anything lol

I use Tofu all the time - no specific recipes though, sorry. I just kind of *play* and see what I like.

My only advice is that sometimes it's worth it to buy the preseasoned tofu - I buy teriyaki tofu for stir fry sometimes, or Italian herb for pasta sauce. I love that stuff, and it makes dinner sooooo easy.

If you want to plunge into tofu, but would prefer not to do the marinating, seasoning work yourself, my favorite product is White Wave Baked Tofu. My fave is the Oriental. I just toss it in a frying pan with some baby bella mushrooms and 1/2 inch cuts of asparagus, sometimes mushrooms. They cost $2.99 for a pack around here, which is technically 4 servings.

http://www.tofutown.net/index.php?id=36

ETA: This site also has some great tofu recipes for all meals. Including regular tofu, baked tofu or their seitan.

Hell NO!

Gross stuff! I'd rather eat Sushi :sick

My friend had tufu stirfry the other day at lunch. It was just steamed veggies, tofu and some sort of oriental soy sauce.

Hell NO!

Gross stuff! I'd rather eat Sushi :sick

My friend had tufu stirfry the other day at lunch. It was just steamed veggies, tofu and some sort of oriental soy sauce.

wait a sec... You'll eat vegemite but not bean curd? :sick You wacko. :lol

wait a sec... You'll eat vegemite but not bean curd? :sick You wacko. :lol

I know that I am TJ my own thread, but I was watching something on discovery the other day and the guys were talking about eating vegemite. I thought about Simmy. lol!

I use Tofu all the time - no specific recipes though, sorry. I just kind of *play* and see what I like.

My only advice is that sometimes it's worth it to buy the preseasoned tofu - I buy teriyaki tofu for stir fry sometimes, or Italian herb for pasta sauce. I love that stuff, and it makes dinner sooooo easy.

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i can't do the pre marinated stuff
idk why lol

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i can't do the pre marinated stuff
idk why lol

I can't either. I don't like the seasonings they use. :pukey

I like to use my seasonings to tie all the dishes together, and it's hard to do that when you don't know exactly which seasonings are being used in one of your key components.