November 9, 2010: Chimichurri Baked Tofu

We were filled with novel recipe mass excitement over Viva Vegan, in addition to went require dorsum for a 2nd shot afterward our initial success. This fourth dimension nosotros opted for something a piddling to a greater extent than straightforward - brand upwards a tasty sauce in addition to bake roughly tofu inwards it to serve with uncomplicated salad. The chimichurri sauce is garlicky in addition to rigid when raw, but afterward baking with the tofu it turns into a wonderful form of spicy pesto. It's traditionally a meat marinade in addition to the piddling rectangles of baked tofu had a prissy trace of piece of job solid texture, which made for an fantabulous steak replacement inwards this poly peptide + salad dish. They're non pretty, but they're pretty delicious. Viva Vegan succeeds again!

Chimichurri sauce 
(based on a recipe from Viva Vegan)

four garlic cloves (peeled)
two French shallots (peeled)
one large bunch apartment leafage parsley, washed in addition to trimmed
1/3 loving cup olive oil
iii tablespoons cherry-red vino vinegar
one teaspoon smoked paprika
two teaspoons dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
one teaspoon salt

Combine the garlic, shallots in addition to parsley inwards a nutrient processor in addition to whiz into a finely chopped paste.

While running the processor, pour inwards the crude in addition to vinegar in addition to sprinkle inwards the spices in addition to seasoning. Pulse until everything is mushed together into a smoothen paste.

Chimichurri baked tofu
(based on a recipe from Viva Vegan)

500g trace of piece of job solid tofu, pressed in addition to sliced into two cm thick rectangles
two tablespoons olive oil
one tablespoon soy sauce
Chimichurri sauce

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Combine the olive crude in addition to soy sauce inwards a baking dish that's large plenty to fit all your tofu inwards it.

Press the tofu slices into the marinade in addition to flip them over, pressing on both sides, thus you've got a tray total of tofu slices that accept been good covered past times the marinade

Bake for fifteen minutes, flip all the tofu slices over in addition to bake for roughly other 15.

Remove from the oven in addition to smear with chimichurri sauce, flip in addition to smear the bottoms of the tofu every bit well.

Put the tofu dorsum inwards the oven in addition to bake for roughly other twenty minutes, until the tofu is prissy in addition to firm.