Sounds good! Panko definitely helps with creating crusts. The use of corn starch after the marinade stage can also work.DADGBD wrote:We grab a block of firm tofu, cube it, let it soak in a bowl of Braggs soy sauce overnight and then roll it in another bowl of Panko crumbs.
Toss it in the frying pan with some olive oil and let the panko crisp up (the trick is not to knock the Panko off the cubes while moving it around in the pan).
Mmmmmmmm. SO good. I can eat that ALL DAY LONG. It's good on it's own, it's good in other stuff... YUM.
Thinking about that also made me think of coconut bacon. OH!
So good.
Yep. Okay. I'm hungry
The trick I've found with some firm tofus is to first (before marinade) taking the tofu out of the package and putting
it on a plate with a weight on top of it to get as much moisture out of the block of tofu as possible. Do that for as
long as you can before the marinade stage. That way when you go to marinate the tofu there is even more room for
delicious flavors to soak in there.
It's an extra stage... but worth it.
You're welcome. I'm not vegetarian. But I'm a fan of good food. I think people eat way too much meat. It usedchuckjaywalk wrote: So much great advice! Thank you.
I am pretty neutral on faux meat. Before I went veg, I was buying meatless chicken strips because of the texture, anyways, and I love love love meatless meatballs. Otherwise, I generally like my tofu in obvious little cubes.
to be a once-in-a-while treat. But the idea of plenitude is attractive. Until you realize that it is achieved by
a devaluing and distortion of the desired item. Which becomes gross when the "desired item" is an animal
you want to eat that has been raised in abominable circumstances in a grisly factory.
Death and life are linked whether a person is vegetarian or not. There are countless bugs and rodents killed
in harvesting crops. And if you eat the crop, then other things don't (and vice versa).
But the rich and poor seem to do a perpetual dance about food fashions. It used to be that white flour was a sign
of wealth since it took added labor to achieve. After everyone sought it, and eventually achieved it in their diets,
white flour breads became associated with poor people eating Wonder Bread and whole wheat breads (which were
once thought of as "peasant food") becomes the domain of the rich.
Food fads are strange.
