Oh, if you love cheese and wish tofu tasted like it... you are in luck! Whenever I'm craving, say, deep fried cheese balls or mozzarella sticks, I bread up some tofu and bake it. It's a pretty decent replacement, if I do say so myself. (But I'm not a dairy eater and haven't been regularly in maybe 4-5 years, so I'm not constantly comparing the tofu dish to the real thing.) This takes about 5 active minutes of doing things, but those 300 seconds are spaced out over a good deal of time.
Here's what you do! First, gather ingredients: FIRM tofu, large flake nutritional yeast, salt, and whatever other seasoning you like. Then cube the tofu and toss it in a marinade. Soy sauce and sweet chili sauce? Great. A little EVOO and garlic? Sure. WHATEVER YOU LIKE. Come back hours later and pull out of the marinade, letting the cubes air dry on a sheet pan for an hour or so. Then toss the cubes in a little olive oil, and next add nutritional yeast so the cubes are coated in the stuff. Put back on a sheet pan, on parchment paper or a silpat to prevent sticking, and back for 20-30 minutes at 350*, stopping to turn the cubes halfway through. When the tofu is ready, the outside is crispy and crunchy and has that umami flavor from the nutritional yeast, and the middle melts in your mouth.
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Date: 2020-01-16 01:46 am (UTC)Here's what you do! First, gather ingredients: FIRM tofu, large flake nutritional yeast, salt, and whatever other seasoning you like. Then cube the tofu and toss it in a marinade. Soy sauce and sweet chili sauce? Great. A little EVOO and garlic? Sure. WHATEVER YOU LIKE. Come back hours later and pull out of the marinade, letting the cubes air dry on a sheet pan for an hour or so. Then toss the cubes in a little olive oil, and next add nutritional yeast so the cubes are coated in the stuff. Put back on a sheet pan, on parchment paper or a silpat to prevent sticking, and back for 20-30 minutes at 350*, stopping to turn the cubes halfway through. When the tofu is ready, the outside is crispy and crunchy and has that umami flavor from the nutritional yeast, and the middle melts in your mouth.
DELICIOUS.