/9f1fd979-e9c4-4f33-8003-5e2f372ed060--2016-0405_almond-crusted-tofu_bobbi-lin_520341.jpg "Baked or Pan-Fried Almond-Crusted Tofu Triangles")
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Makes
4 servings
Author Notes
Even as you may per chance per chance per chance also were purchasing for methods to come by more texture and crispiness out of your tofu, here is the recipe for you. A crunchy almond coating makes these snack-mighty (but furthermore predominant dish mighty) triangles arise to baking or pan searing and emerge with a ideal crispy, rather of delectable, rather of salty exterior. —Gena Hamshaw
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Substances
- For the triangles:
one
14- or 15-ounce block additional-agency tofu, pressed if that you just’d deem of to remove some moisture
1 tablespoon
vegetable oil (if pan-frying)
1 cup
commercial almond meal (fancy Bob’s Red Mill) or hand-crafted almond meal (merely grind a heaping cup of almonds to a shapely meal within the food processor)
2 tablespoons
nutritional yeast
1/2 teaspoon
sweet or smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon
sea salt
1/4 teaspoon
freshly ground dusky pepper
1/2 teaspoon
garlic powder
- For the marinade:
1/3 cup
water
2 tablespoons
soy sauce or tamari
1 tablespoon
freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tablespoon
Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons
cornstarch or tapioca starch
Instructions
- Even as you’d fancy to bake the tofu, preheat your oven to 350° F.
- To prepare the tofu, reduce the block into four colossal cubes, after which reduce every in half diagonally to provide 8 triangles. Tear the marinade ingredients collectively in a colossal bowl and add the tofu pieces. Mask and marinate for no decrease than 2 hours and up to 8.
- Mix collectively the almond coating ingredients (from almond meal to garlic powder) in a mixing bowl. Coat every fragment of tofu within the coating combination. Transfer the tofu pieces to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or except the pieces are golden brown, flipping as soon as halfway thru baking.
- Alternately, you’d heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a colossal, solid-iron skillet. Add the tofu triangles and cook for 3 to 4 minutes on all facets, or except golden brown.
