Tofu question.?!
Answers: how exactly do you cook tofu?
You can bake it, you can fry it, you can do about anything you would like to tofu!
Some of my favorite ways to eat tofu are in stir-fry, you can marinade it and make a sandwich out of it, fried up and smothered in your favorite BBQ sauce!
Look online for recipes! Once you find a few you love you'll wonder how you ever lived without it!
Usually, store bought tofu is ready to eat out of the package. It can be mixed into stir-fry dishes, put into soups, or fried.
TOFU COMES READY TO EAT. YOU JUST NEED TO ADD IT TO OTHER FOODS TO MAKE A MEAL SUCH AS STIR FRY VEGGIES ,SHAKES AND DESSERTS . GO TO FATFREEVEGAN.COM AND GET ALL THE RECIPES YOU LCAN HANDLE FROM AM TO PM MEALS AND DESSERTS. BE HEALTHY
marinated tofu is MUCH nicer than the other kind. Don't buy the white tofu. In stir fry is good :)
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First before frying, you should put it between some clean towels and put a heavy weight on it and let the water get drained out for awhile. It helps to shorten the frying time.
You can also freeze it and then drain it, and supposedly it gives it more texture.
Tofu is actually an already cooked food; so, if it is packaged cleanly then it is ready to eat (some stores sell it in a bulk jar, which you'd need to wash sine the water there may not be ideal) .
Tofu itself has very little flavour and thus it would take well whatever you add to it. It can be steamed, added to a clear-broth type of soup with leeks & other vegetables, stir-fried with soy sauce & some chilly paste (for spice).
Some of my easy recipes...
Steaming:
If you can eat pork, cut the tofu into 2-3 cm cubes, slide the side for stuffing.
Prepare the stuffing (ground pork, seasoning to your desire, diced mushrooms, some cellophane noodles -- such as mung bean clear noodles), stuff the tofu cubes & then brush the stuffed opening with a bit of oyster sauce.
To add to decoration, use a scallion or a chive leaf to tie the cube together & put in the steamer, steam for 12-15 minutes.
(you can substitute the pork with anything vegetarian & the oyster sauce with hoisin soy paste.
Be careful not to over-steam the tofu as it gets very dense and causes the texture to lose its softness in taste.
Soup:
I would cook up a vegetable broth, season it to taste, a bit saltier than if I would eat it directly. Then let simmer & add (in order) straw mushroom slides (or fancier mushrooms if available). Tofu cubes about 1cm (they expand). Cook the tofu no more than 5 minutes before serving, add the chive leaves / leeks & cook about 2 min, some scallions cut in very short pieces. The chives could be just soaked in the hot broth for about 3-4 minutes, not cooked as it would totally lose flavour.
The scallion cuts can be added on top & stirred in just before you eat.
I am just sitting here dreaming of dinner at home. If you actually take up one of these, let me know how you like it.
Enjoy!
You don't have to cook tofu; it's ready to eat. Tofu is quite tasteless, has a mild custardy taste. I like it best in Asian dishes, like stir fries. Tofu is increadibly good for you. Has a lot of protein and calcium. One way that's easy to prepare it on a hot summer day is to cube a package of drained tofu. Shake over it about 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, the juice of half a lemon and a few drops of sesame oil. Add a bit of green onion and some toasted sesame seeds. Serve on a plate chilled in the fridge. Delicious!
There are many ways to cook tofu, but before cooking you should follow these steps:
1) drain the water from the package
2) cut the block of tofu into slices of equal thickness
3) arrange the slices on a thick stack of paper towels
4) pile more paper towels on top of the tofu slices
5) put something really heavy, like a book or a heavy pan, on top of the top towels
6) wait a few hours, changing the towels when they get soaked through
This squeezes the water out of the tofu, which helps shorten the cooking time, makes the dishes less watery, and helps the tofu absorb sauces better.
As for how to prepare it once you've squeezed the water out, the easiest way is to put the slices in a baking pan, pour a pre-prepared sauce over them, and bake them for a while. There are a variety of other methods, including stir-frying, pan-frying, deep-frying, braising, carmelizing, etc, and you can find abundant recipes on the internet for all of these methods.
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Tofu comes ready to eat. You can bake it, fry it broil it, simmer it in broth.
Actually you can cook tofu any which way you want or even eat it raw.