Spiced Tofu
Love it or hate it? 😛 I haven’t posted a tofu recipe for a while! It’s one of those foods you either love, and try all different ways, or hate and avoid at all costs! I used to fall into the latter. I could never see the point of eating a bland lump of disintegrating mush. Boy was I wrong! Do you know how tasty good tofu is!?
Crisp, spicy tofu with caramelised crispy onions, corn and kale
There is a trick to cooking tofu and it makes complete sense once you think about it! Tofu is sold in water. Tofu is like a sponge. Take the water out and you have a sponge ready to soak up any flavour you like. I have a tofu press! Maybe an extravagance. Maybe a piece of kitchen junk, but not in the Life Diet Health kitchen! This 400g block of tofu was pressed and no less than 135ml liquid came out! That made one firm almost solid block of tofu. It even tasted okay raw just like that! Okay don’t try that – that will put you off! 😛 Anyway, if you take all of that liquid out, you can put a lot of something back in! I usually use a mix of soy sauce, maple syrup, tahini and liquid smoke, but I thought I’d try something easier!
I usually always bake tofu on its own, or just with a crunchy crumb, and had never thought to add something to it while cooking in the oven. Onions! Wow! This was so good I was picking it before it even got on my plate! As always, you can omit anything you don’t like (except the tofu!) or switch it about, so lose the kale, use a milder paste, add more salt, try a handful of peas, your choice! I hope you love this as much as I did!
Gather Prepare Serve & StoreSpiced Tofu (Vegan & Free-From)
Quick and easy very tasty tofu!
I love spiced tofu! Cassava couscous is a new to me 🙂
Thanks Eva. It’s new to me too! It’s a bit sweet but goes well with the spicy tofu… ooo, new idea just popped into my head! You could use regular couscous or corn couscous (have you seen that one?)
A wonderful well flavoured tofu dish! Yummmmm! ??????
Ah Sophie thank you… I wish you could try the chili paste we use – it’s hot hot hot and so tasty! Made by my friend and full of nothing but wholesome ingredients yummy!
I imagine casava to taste similar to taro (if you’ve heard of that), will look out for the casava (and corn!) couscous but don’t think it will be easy to source where I live. Going back to ‘regular’ couscous, have you ever steamed it the original way? I’ve seen videos on Youtube and the grains look so much better, more separated, etc…looks very time consuming though! 🙂
Taro… I’ll have to look out for that one! 🙂 When I was staying in Morocco they used to make fresh couscous from scratch – that was the best! 🙂 Steamed with the vegetables it’s so good. However, if you get the quantity of water just right and add a drop of oil to the boiling water, the grains will also separate yum yum! Now I want couscous! 😛
Thanks for the tip, sorry, just seen your reply 🙂
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That sounds nice does the kale go crispy ? I will use another grain as I am a coeliac But I will try this thanks
Hello. Thank you. The kale is just starting to crisp – I don’t like mine too crispy but you can test it and see which you prefer best. This dish is coeliac friendly – the couscous used is cassava, but there is also corn couscous available. Let me know how you get on. with it.
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