Saturday, April 12, 2008

sesame maple roasted tofu

1 tsp canola oil
2 tsp sesame oil
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 medium onion, diced
1 brick o' firm tofu
1 Tbsp tahini paste
1 Tbsp soy sauce
1 Tbsp maple syrup
1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
1 Tbsp sesame seeds

Preheat your oven to 450. Dice up your fu into 1 inch cubes. Toss with canola oil, sesame oil, salt, pepper, and onions. Spread onto a baking sheet and roast in oven for 15-20 min, until tofu and onions are starting to brown. In the mean time, whisk together remaining ingredients into a delish sauce. Remove tofu from oven, toss with sesame maple sauce, return to oven and roast another 8 min or so.

I've made this recipe a few times, and it's always been tasty but the sugars in the maple syrup burn and stick to the pan, so you sorta have to scrap everything off and get lots of burnt bits in with your tofu. Last night I had the genius idea to put the whole thing on parchment paper, so I did, and it was fantastic. The maple sauce still burned a little where it was in a puddle around the outside, but that was easily removed and the tofu turned out so fantastically delish.

I served it hot over a nice big spinach salad. Yum yum.

4 comments:

HT said...

so making this this week.

HT said...

p.s. i think you would profoundly enjoy this woman's blog.
she is the vegan martha stewart.
in fact, she was ON Martha Stewart the other day, much to the delight of internet vegan food nerds everywhere.

http://veganyumyum.com/

Katie said...

Wow, that blog is amazing! Thanks for turning me on to it. I'm so going to make that marmalade tofu . . . and pretty much everything else on there!

HT said...

i thought of you when i saw the "knit night cupcakes"

that's what she made on martha, too.