Silken Tofu

[actpassive]

I accidentally bought some silken tofu and I have no idea what to do with it! I've never used it before - it kinda scares me, and I don't really know what to expect

Comments

[kokoronagomu]

melt a package of chocolate chips... while you're whipping the silken tofu slowly add the melted chocolate and whip until it's a fluffy mousse -- it's wonderful!

[pie_is_good]

This, but this: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/moo-less-chocolate-pie-recipe/index.html

Well, something like it, but OMG SO GOOD.

[kokoronagomu]

well, YEAH, great idea! but i think i would prefer it with frangelico... then it would taste like hazelnut-chocolate! yummm! better than nuttela ^_^

[kokoronagomu]

oh yeah, lasagne! how i do it -- press a clove of garlic or two (to taste or use garlic powder) and mix into the tofu with some nutritional yeast and chopped parsley and use as you would ricotta cheese.

[actpassive]

Cool, thanks... this is pretty much exactly how I was thinking of mimicking ricotta.

[elinafromtheash]

My only non-dip/sauce/dressing things that I've done with silken tofu are to add it to miso soup, or blend it as part of a veg sausage roll filling.

[actpassive]

What else do you add to the filling?

[elinafromtheash]

Leftover rice (usually brown or a wild rice blend), beans, celery, garlic (or powder), veg broth powder (I have some faux beef broth), vegemite if we have any, gluten. I add everything except the rice and beans to the food processor, blend it, and then add the rice and beans, pulse a few times to leave texture.

[shdwcat]

Well why don't you it eat it like tofu? Maybe I'm missing something, as I'm Asian and grew up eating silken tofu...

[actpassive]

I figured due to the packaging and stuff that the texture was really... soft? Like I said, I'm totally unfamiliar with it and the only times I've ever really seen it in recipes it's added as a kind of creaming agent. Usually I stir-fry tofu.

[shdwcat]

I stir fry silken tofu too; it crumbles a bit but you just have to be careful. You can steam it too; some people even eat it microwaved.

[arylkin]

I'm too lazy for lasagna most of the time. I just make a lb of rotini (or other little pasta), heat up a frozen bag of chopped spinach, and crumble up tofu with garlic, salt, pepper, nutritional yeast and whatever italian spices I have- mix it all together with pasta sauce and it's delicious.