Grilled Tofu Amongst Sriracha

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Tofu together with I get got a sort of a love-hate relationship. What is tofu? Tofu is basically edible bean curd that is made past times curdling soy milk together with thus pressing I into a solid block, exactly similar the agency cheese ( paneer is made).

I similar the concept of tofu together with all the practiced things that it stands for, but I get got never come upwardly to similar the sense of savor of it; until now! I get got tried incorporating tofu inward my diet on several dissimilar occasions. I get got made scrambled tofu, I get got substituted it inward house of paneer together with made our traditional paneer dishes similar malai paneer, paneer chilli, I didn't similar it. I get got made stir-fry using Tofu; didn't similar it. For unopen to reason, it exactly didn't appeal to me. It tasted bland, weird.. I don't know.. Just non right. I used to frequently come across my real practiced blogger friend, Sonal @Simplyvegetarian777 rustle upwardly amazing tofu dishes. I would exactly await at her posts together with permit them pass.

Then i day, I went out to dinner at this Korean eating theatre downtown. One of the dishes that nosotros ordered was rice amongst vegetables together with something. The cite was quite fancy. When the dish was served it looked bang-up together with tasted out of this world! One of the items inward that dish was slices of Tofu. It was thus flavorful together with delicious, I cannot fifty-fifty describe! Looking at that dish, I realized that the fox for cooking Tofu together with making it flavorful is marinating it right. Tofu is essentially bland amongst no item taste. It is askin to an empty canvas. It imbibes the sense of savor of whatever sauce that you lot seat it in. This gave me a renewed conclusion to seek Tofu again!

I marinated it inward a spices beloved barbecue sauce together with grilled it inward my grill pan over the stove top. The final result was a delicious tofu steak that is super-flavorful together with made a wonderful side for my meal! The best business office is that in that location is non much prep involved together with is super quick together with slow to make! Perfect for a weeknight dinner. All you lot would demand to do is at unopen to betoken ( read previous night) marinate the tofu steaks inward the sauce together with locomote out it inward the fridge. Extra theatre tofu plant best for this recipe.

Servings: 6 ( One 1.5 cms thick steak per person)

Ingredients:

Organic Extra-firm Tofu : 1 package
Honey barbecue sauce: 1/4 loving cup ( whatever construct volition do. ( I used unopen to leftover gourmet beloved BBQ sauce that I had).
Soy Sauce: 1 tbsp ( exercise gluten-free if gluten-intolerant ).
Sriracha sauce: 1 tsp ( you lot tin exercise whatever hot sauce if you lot don't get got Sriracha)
Olive oil: for greasing the grill pan.

Method:

Slice the tofu into 1.5 cms thick slices ( steaks). Keep aside.

Add beloved barbecue sauce, soy sauce together with Sriracha sauce to a bowl. Mix well.

Brush each tofu patch amongst the marinade together with house inward a bowl.

Pour the remaining on top of it. Cover together with locomote along inward the fridge to marinate a minimum of xxx minutes.

Heat the grill pan on the stove halt on medium heat. Grease the pan using olive oil. When the pan is hot enough, house the tofu slices on the pan. Cook for five mins on depression flame. Flip it over together with laid for unopen to other 4-5 mins.

Serve hot amongst grilled vegetables, noodles or fried rice.

Enjoy! I am equally good bringing this to our friends at Throwback Thursday.

Cooking made easy:

As you lot tin see, whatever combination of sauces amongst flavors that you lot wish could survive used. I commonly select a lilliputian chip of this together with a lilliputian chip of that together with come across what comes out of it. If it is good, I portion it amongst you lot all. You win unopen to together with you lot lose some. But you lot won't know until you lot get got tried! Be creative!

Tip for salubrious living:

Tofu is a bang-up origin of poly peptide for vegetarians together with vegans equally it is i of those few foods that contains all viii essential amino acids. It is equally good an first-class origin of Fe together with calcium together with the minerals manganese, selenium together with phosphorous. It is equally good a practiced origin of magnesium, copper, zinc together with vitamin B1. However, I personally prefer to exercise organic together with non-genetically modified tofu.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu
http://www.livestrong.com/article/378597-is-tofu-healthy-to-eat/
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/ingredient-focus-tofu

Food for thought:

Once nosotros select our limits, nosotros become beyond them. Albert Einstein