Posted by stella on 2006-11-14 17:19:05
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i bread it in a mix of flour and cornmeal (first dip in beaten egg or soymilk if you're vegan) then fry it. it's also good breaded in sesame seeds and fried.
i cook tofu a whole lot of ways, but mostly it's just cubed and stir-fried with veggies. i also eat it plain with soy sauce.
the World of the East Vegetarian Cookbook by Madhur Jaffrey has lots of good tofu recipes.
Posted by mrs_stroozi on 2005-11-27 13:59:45
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We are so not vegetarian, but we eat tofu about once a week. I cut then drain my tofu by laying the pieces between two kitchen towels. I then make a flour mixture with salt, garlic, tumeric, cumin, paprika, celery salt (or not if I'm using regular salt), a little chili powder. I dredge the tofu in the flour and fry it up in canola oil until the crust is very golden brown. We serve it with this Japanese-y style sauce we get by the quart at Costco, plus rice and sauteed Chinese cabbage, cooked with onions and celery. I throw some roasted red bell pepper strips over the veggies for color.
I usally slice the tofu cakes in half (like a bagel) then into two triangles, or just cube the full cake.
We also do veggie sushi rolls and rice balls. You can stick a cube of the fried tofu into a rice ball before shaping them. (One of my daughter's after-school teachers is Japanese, and she taught me how to make these items.)
Anybody remember "The Vegetarian Epicure," cookbooks from the 70s? I just took mine out to make pumpkin cornbread for Thanksgiving. There's some really nice veggie recipes in there, Italian, Mexican, Indian, too. The Farm has a great Vegetarian Cookbook (thefarm.org). "The Book of Tofu," "Recipes (or Diet) for a Small Planet," are some veggie cookbooks coming up from the sludge of my memories as well.
