Healthy Recipe: Roasted Tofu
Recently I had decided to go pescatarian which
basically means your vegetarian except you eat fish and seafood. I’ve been needing
to find new recipes to try while I’m not eating other meats that I used to eat
often for dinner and other meals. Here’s the recipe which was under Entrees.
“Yield: 4 Servings
Ingredients:
1 package extra firm tofu
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 teaspoons canola oil
2 teaspoons rice vinegar
2 teaspoons honey
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon chili sauce (such as Siracha)” (Stollman
237).
While making the recipe and gathering the ingredients,
I realized I had bought the wrong kind of tofu. There are 3 different kinds of
tofu including soft, firm and extra firm. I accidently bought firm tofu but it
still worked but it sort of got misshaped. I also didn’t have chili sauce in my
house but it still turned out fine.
Here’s the Directions:
1. Cut
up the Tofu
2. Line
a bowl with paper towels, put the tofu inside and refrigerate for 15-20
minutes.
3. Preheat
oven to 425 degrees
4. In a large bowl whisk together all ingredients
besides tofu
5. Add
tofu to bowl of sauce and gently toss to coat.
6. Transfer
to sheet pan and bake for 20-25 minutes and turn once until golden brown
7. Enjoy
(Stollman 237).
In the end I tried the tofu and honestly thought it
didn’t taste like much. I was slightly disappointed when trying it along with
getting the wrong kind of tofu so while preparing it, the tofu was breaking
into small pieces. I feel like next time I should let it marinate in the sauce
for about an hour so that maybe the tofu will absorb the sauce and become more
flavorful. I would recommend it though because it’s not that bad and if you
doctor it up a little it can be really tasty!
What’s
your favorite dinner? Do you like or ever eat Tofu?
MLA: Stollman, Lisa, MA, RD, CDE, CDN. The
Teen Eating Manifesto: The Ten Essential Steps to Losing Weight, Looking Great
and Getting Healthy. Northport, NY: Nirvana, 2012. Print.
