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Old Tue, Jul-27-04, 08:45
VickiR VickiR is offline
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another great thing to do w/ tofu, is to make a kind of dressing or dip with it in a blender or cuisinart.

Break up a block of tofu - either crumble it or cube it.

Put the juice of one lemon, about a tablespoon of soy sauce or tamari, and a cut up piece or two of garlic, into a blender. Puree to chop up the garlic a bit. Add a spoonful or two of a nut butter (sesame butter is really nice), and puree again. It will be thick, you may want to add more lemon (if you like it tart), more soy sauce (if you like salty), or just plain water - a couple of tablespoonfuls should be plenty. Puree again to blend. It should be fairly runny. Then add the tofu, a bit at a time, pureeing between additions, till it looks like the right consistency (runnier for dressing, thicker for dip). You may have tofu left over. You may have to scrape down the sides once or twice.

This is great with veggies as a dipper, or as a salad dressing.

(you don't have to use garlic - you can use curry powder or any other seasoning you want)

You can also do something similar to make a chocolate dessert - pudding stuff, with stevia/spenda, lemon juice, chocolate, blueberries, or whatever you want (try a shot of the sugarless coffee syrup if you want).

I don't make this - I don't eat soy products of artifically sweetened stuff, but tofu is really extremely versatile, and these are just a couple of ideas.

have fun, play!
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