A Basic Tofu Cooking style/recipe

When I say basic recipe, that means you can add or modify ingredients to suit your taste. And it's really more of a cooking style, than a recipe. The Dreaded Tofu, actually is an excellent source of calcium, magnesium, manganese and other minerals. It's good for the energy levels of someone who doesn't eat a lot or any meat, if taken 2 to 3 times per week.

For Basic Tofu Cooking style, You Need:
Tofu
Ginger
Soysauce

PREP
1.Mince up some ginger, maybe around a teaspoon or tablespoon full. You'll have to see how much you like the ginger flavor and then go to town and put as much in as you want in the next time you cook it.

2.Wrap the Tofu in a few paper towels and put a bowl on top of it to squeeze out some of the water (this is optional)It helps a little with absorbing the sauces that you'll use with it

COOK
1.Take a frying pan and add enough olive oil (or another oil if you prefer) to lightly cover the bottom of the pan. When the oil is hot, throw in that minced ginger. Toss the ginger around in the pan so its covered in oil and then let it fry for 30 seconds to a minute. If you don't do this, the ginger can really be hard and strong tasting in your food

2.Throw in your tofu, chopped up however you like. Saute it in the ginger alone for at least 5 minutes. This is KEY. If you can always saute Tofu FIRST, you'll find however you make it is much tastier.

3. Add Soy sauce, or another sauce of your choice. Saute the Tofu again for another 5 or 10 minutes.

Make sure to taste and see if there is enough of the sauce that you've added to have flavor. Remember Tofu is tasteless and porous and needs to have layers of flavoring. Also, after it cools off and you reheat it again later, you may find the taste is also a little deeper from sitting with the sauces longer.

This is BASIC. We'll talk about how to throw in veggies and how to saute a variety of veggies in our next post!

Laoshi Erin Markle
Head Instructor Gold Summit Institute
President GSODEC
Director of Buffalo-China Sister City Affairs

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