How to Cook Tofu

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Tofu

Tofu made by coagulating soy bean milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. It a healthy dish and contains good amounts of iron, calcium and magnesium. Vegan or vegetarian should add soy bean in their diet to get enough protein! and it a great meat substitute.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Steamed tofu! Put tofu in the steamer for 10 minutes, serve it hot with soy sauce mixture. To make the sauce, mix 2 table spoons of soy sauce, few drizzle of sesame oils, chopped green onion, sesame seeds (optional) and chopped green chilies (optional).
Step 2

Deep fry tofu! Use firm tofu to make deep fry tofu. It's a good snack or appetizer. To make deep fry tofu. Peel 2 cloves garlic and minced it well add salt and water then use it to marinate tofu for at least 30 minutes. Reheat vegetable oil in the frying pan and when it's ready deep fry those marinated tofu until golden brown.
Step 3

Tofu soup! To make tofu soup heat the chicken stock or vegetables broth, add roasted garlic, salt and pepper for taste. Cut tofu in medium cube (1"X1"), cut chives about 1" long and add those in the simmered broth. When it boiled then add spinach and turn off the heat.
Step 4

There are many more different dishes you can make with tofu, such as mapo tofu, tofu burger, miso soup, stir fry tofu, tofu noodle soup, etc.
The recipe above is just the simple example how you can cook tofu. basically you can cook tofu almost anyway you want it.