Hey everyone, I've been trying to make a couple of vegetarian meals every week to cut down on the amount of meat that I consume. I tried making Tofu for the first time last night and it turned out pretty well. I chopped it into squares, squeezed out all the water (holy fucking shit there's a lot of water in tofu) and tossed it in some olive oil, soy sauce, garlic powder, ginger, and some corn starch. Baked it in the oven until it crisped up and it turned out pretty well I thought. Ate it with a simple vegetable stir fry.
Turns out there's a thing called a tofu press? That seems like it would expedite the entire process since most of the prep was in squeezing out the five gallons of water from the block of tofu. Anyone got any suggestions for a solid one to get?
Also if anyone wants to share some good vegetarian/vegan recipes with tofu it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Edit* God damn you motherfuckers love yourselves some tofu. Thanks for all the great tips everyone, this will definitely guide me in my tofu journey.
Yea I like to put a paper towel underneath to suck out the water and then put something heavy on top. Never tried a tofu press but I can’t imagine it’s better enough to justify buying one.
That's what I did. Just lined it with paper towels between two cutting boards and put my cast iron pan on top. Just seemed wasteful going through so many paper towels. I guess I could try with a normal dish cloth next time.
I’ll have to experiment with that sometime. I feel like it’d be tough to find something that takes in water as readily as paper towel though
Also try tossing it in cornstarch and pan frying it! That makes it super crispy which is always nice
That's what I had done, just in a baking sheet in the oven instead of the pan. (I guess it technically wasn't frying though, just baking). I'll try it in the pan next time since it seemed to stick to the baking sheet pretty badly.