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Now you’re ready to slice and proceed with the recipe!.

Just be careful that you have balanced the pressing implements well, so that they press evenly and stay level as the tofu contracts. I usually use 4-6 overturned (for better balance) salad plates. A small cast iron skillet with a few things inside works.

Carefully stack a few heavy things on top.

Wrap the block of tofu in a paper towel.

Remove the cellophane top of the container completely and remove the block of tofu.

Hold the container over a sink to let the water drain out of the package and then gently press on the package to get any excess out of the block of tofu.

Use a knife to cut a 1″ slit in the packaging, right next to the seam where the cellophane top attaches to the hard plastic container.

Start with a package of extra firm tofu.

It is a total waste of money and what Alton Brown would call a unitasker, a category of kitchen gadget that I thoroughly believe should be kept to a minimum. The long and the short of it is this: don’t you dare buy a tofu press. Make sure to cut the tofu into slabs, not cubes, before baking.

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In the time it takes you to say the full title of that recipe, you could have made this baked tofu.

Honey Sriracha Roasted Acorn Squash Quinoa Bowl.

Toss it in when the recipe calls for the spicy stuff. Skip the marinate in the recipe, and make this ? instead.

Brussels Sprouts Fried Rice, sans spice.

Make sure to cut the tofu into strips, rather than cubes, before baking. tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, and pickled onions ), garnish with cilantro, and squeeze some fresh lime juice over the whole thing before enjoying.

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The noodle bowl pictured! Cook and cool gluten free buckwheat or rice noodles and toss them with sesame oil and a dash of tamari or coconut aminos.#nerdalert Stumped on the rest of dinner? Here are 5 Tofu Recipes That Use This Baked Tofu: Want less saltiness? Reduce the soy/tamari and increase the olive oil slightly), then pour over the tofu. Mix together the marinade ingredients (and feel free to make them your own.Buy a package of firm tofu pre-cubed or cube it yourself.Prepare some rice or noodles and whatever veggies you have on hand while it’s baking, and you’re done. Here’s my pitch for this tofu recipeįast, easy, made of just a few ingredients that you already have on hand, and ready in a snap. So I dug this old (and I mean OLD) recipe out of the archives, gave it a bit of a facelift, and plopped it on top of a colorful, veggie packed noodle bowl for him. I wouldn’t recommend it.Īfter a tofu hiatus, this baked tofu brought me back into the fold.īut the fact remains that tofu is an affordable and versatile protein source, and my dad – a vegetarian for more than a couple of decades (he was an OG veg!) – comes over once a week to take care of Baby Bake so I can get some work done and, believe me, that means he needs stamina. Once I stopped eating beef, it was a quick domino effect to full on vegetarianism and I pretty much survived on white-bread-and-cheddar-cheese sandwiches for about 10 years, with tofu for some protein. The hamburger recipes on this site are approved by my husband I make them for myself with turkey instead. It was pretty predictable.Īnyway, I pretty much haven’t eaten ground beef since. My brother and I had a babysitter who would force me to eat these icky, gloppy, messy sandwiches semi-regularly, and to this day, I’m not sure why.

Why do you want to eat something that sounds like a hungover frat brother? I digress. I mean, what’s the deal with sloppy joes, really? The name alone is such a turn off. It was the late 80s, and I hated sloppy joes. Plus, scroll to the bottom for five quick and easy tofu recipes that you can make with this baked tofu to make #meatlessmonday a breeze! Baked tofu is a quick and easy plant-based protein that tastes great! It comes together so easily: just whisk together a marinade, soak the tofu, spread the tofu on a pan, bake and enjoy! It comes out of the oven crispy, flavorful, and ready to add some zing to salads, noodle (or zoodle) bowls, sandwiches, and more.