Make Your Tofu Amazing
We are often asked at the fairs and festivals across the UK how best to marinate tofu. The answer is: there are no hard and fast rules to creating a good marinade but there are some general guidelines which are helpful to follow. It should be a liquid and a marinade is essentially made up of …
This Sichuan sizzler is popular in Asia, originating from the good people of Sichuan in China where Mapo Tofu is a staple dish. It is normally made with beef or pork but that would be awful so we used mushrooms instead. It also traditionally uses silken tofu but we used pressed, firm tofu to give …
We originally created this as a Festive Loaf, but it works equally well as the centrepiece to any roast dinner. Serve with roast potatoes and steamed root vegetables on any Sunday all year round. If it happens to be a celebration, This is a Vegan Festive Loaf with sausage stuffing and a sweet glaze and …
This is a guest recipe by the awesome veggie, Indian cook, Priya Lakshminarayan of Cookilicious. Priya created a vegan version of this Indian dish for us with a rich and creamy Makhani sauce and well-pressed tofu. She also gets photo credits for the beautiful food shot. Makhani Sauce traditionally uses milk, butter and cream and …
Put the lime in the coconut and eat it all up. Invoke the exotic with this tasty, super-healthy dessert. Combine silken tofu with mango, raw cashews and coconut cream to create a subtle, delicious mousse on a base of dates and nuts. Best of all, you can use tinned mango or frozen mango chunks and …
This is a special dinner centrepiece, the kind you might find in a swanky restaurant and that little bit of extra effort required to make these different layers will, we promise, be well worth it. You reap what you sow. The base of this dish is a crunch of fried polenta, then comes a creamy …
We developed the Smokey Sweet Tofu Marinade recipe to take to Vegan Fairs and Festivals to give out as samples. We wanted to best show how tofu can absorb the flavours of a marinade when it is well pressed. This marinade served better than any to dispel the myth that tofu is bland and tasteless. …
If you’re looking for an egg-free and optionally gluten-free quiche you’ve just found it. This quiche is brilliant. In fact, this quiche is so good we sell mini versions at our fairs. I used to love quiche and I mourned it’s loss when I gave up eggs. Finally, I realised that to make a delicious …
These Vegan Rocky Road Bites show the infinite variety of tofu here when it transforms into a delicious chocolate ganache in which to imbed the delights of biscuit bits, mini marshmallows, and nuggets of golden honeycomb. And suddenly you have a delicious, vegan version of Rocky Road or, with slightly more biscuit to replace the …
Pancakes for breakfast is a luxury but not necessarily an unhealthy one. Using silken tofu to make this pancake batter gives this opulent treat and protein boost, not to mention a delicious, creamy texture. Ingredients 100g (1/2 cup) silken tofu, lightly-pressed 240 ml (1/2 cup) plant-based milk, ie almond 1 tbsp lemon juice 150g plain …
I used to love tiramisu in my pre-vegan days and I don’t know why it’s taken me 10 years to realise it can be veganised really easily. Switching the extremely calorific ingredients of double cream, condensed milk, marscapone cheese and in some cases raw egg yolk for a low-fat, delectable, healthy and cruelty-free combination of …
Do you miss prawn cocktail? Be honest. Well, there is literally no need. You can create your own cruelty-free version using tofu and the well-pressed lemony cubes will do a pretty good impression of your erstwhile crustacean. We love this as either a starter, on a bed of iceberg lettuce and avocado or in a …
Happy Thanksgiving USA! We’ve taken some classic ingredients here to create a super-simple quiche. It works as a main with veggies or is also delicious served cold as part of a buffet. However your Thanksgiving rolls. You can even used ready-chopped pumpkin or butternut squash cubes if you’re in a rush and throw the whole …
Tofu Mushroom paté is delicious and has the additional benefit of not evoking a horrific image of a force-fed goose. So here’s a nice, cruelty-free paté for you to enjoy. It’s a simple vegan recipe that we’ve developed to what we now consider as pretty close to perfection. Tangy mushrooms team up with creamy, whizzed …
We created this pie on a wet November lockdown afternoon during the 2020 COVID pandemic when we desperately needed some family comfort food. It really hit the spot. The consistency of the tofu is pleasingly chewy and combines with the softened, seasonal vegetables in a mellow, creamy sauce. We served it with baked potato wedges …
It has been a long term mission of ours to make the perfect tofu burger. It had to taste great, look the part and hold together whether you shallow fry, grill or barbecue. There have been disasters along the way. More than one burger has ended up looking more like tofu scramble than burger, delicious …