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>>8432430

Its good in stir fry.

Cut it up, wrap it in towels to drain the moisture out of it. The more moisture you drain the better itll cook. Get firm or extra firm tofu if you can, and cotton tofu i believe cooks better than silken but i can never find it where i am.

(I have no idea what non firm tofu is used for in cooking.)

Cover it in cornflower. Fry it up. It tends to be a little too fragile to go straight in the wok, i usually pan-fry it until its firmer and then throw it in.

Mix it with a stir fry that has a good sauce going. Itll absorb the flavors and you end up with something actually pretty decent.

It ends up being something like a cross between plain chicken and halloumi cheese, flavoured to your choice.

Of course, its up to you whether thats worth the effort involved. I think a lot of people try to use it as a meat substitute, but as someone who likes meat that just seems retarded.

Tofu has a blank and unappealing flavor by itself. You don't make the centre of a dish any more than youd make plain potatos the centre of a dish.

Having tofu and meat at the same time is something you can do, and its nice.

Another thing you can do if you're less inclined to prep work is dice it and throw it in with the stir-fry sans prep. Itll basically disintegrate into very small clumps. From that point any flavor isn't going to come across. Itll just add protein and be sort of comparable to little bits of egg i guess.

>>8066309