Anyone cook with TOFU?

[Callie]

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.

[SnowCrystal]

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.

[Callie]

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

[Del]

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.)

[GlitterCrotch]

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.

[Pebbles]

I tofu Thanks for the ideas

[Callie]

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

[Tommiesgurll]

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!

[GlitterCrotch]

I'm going to try that ^

Thanks