So I had a lot of breading left from the beer tofu...one of my favorite things about vegan cooking is how much cleaner and safer the food prep is. I would have to throw out all the breading I used with chicken, but this stuff, I just scooped the wet part out and tupperwared that business.
Anyway, I loved the flavor of the breading, so I wanted to use it again. I went ahead and followed the same recipe I posted earlier, from vegweb.com, but this time I placed the tofu-nuggets on a lightly oiled 9x13 pan. I would recommend tofu triangles for this, and I think double pressing it would be the way to go. I pressed mine, but cut thick slabs of tofu. I think thinner slices that were briefly pressed again after cutting would get the best texture. This might even be a good thing to try with frozen tofu, which is supposedly chewier. Rumor has it you freeze the tofu in the package, then thaw it, then cook it...that's a lot of planing ahead. So I haven't gone for it, myself... Anyway, I baked those suckers at 350 for about 1/2 an hour. They came out yummy! They didn't have that delicious friend crunch Cass loves so much, but they were good! Like I mentioned earlier, I think they would have been even better with a thinner cut and extra pressing- these were definietely tofu-y in that jiggly way some people fear.
While they were going, I chopped one unpeeled sweet potato into 1/2 inch rounds, discarding the ends. Then I sliced the stacked rounds into quarters.
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