Marinated Tofu

When you mix the marinade, be sure to only pour half into the dish you’re marinating in. You’ll add the chilli garlic sauce and chilli powder to the remainder, then set it aside to use as a sauce when you stir fry the tofu (or you can serve it on the side instead).

Don’t forget to season with salt and pepper. Since this recipe is gluten free, we’re using tamari sauce in place of soy sauce. However, if you’re not gluten free and choose to use soy sauce, take that into consideration that it may be salty and use less.

You may find, as we did, that one pie dish isn’t nearly big enough to marinate all the tofu so you’ll likely need two. We actually transferred some of the marinade into our fry pan and finished this process of soaking the rest of the tofu. That way, we didn’t have to clean another dish (just wipe out the pan with a paper towel before you start cooking).

Soak the tofu on one side and then flip it around. When you let it sit for only half an hour, you may find that the marinade hasn’t soaked in completely. So if you’re in a rush to get dinner on the table like us, just pour the excess into the reserved sauce to use when stir frying the tofu later.

As the tofu soaks, start cutting the onion and the garlic.

The secret to crispy tofus is the same trick we use in this recipe for the crispiest chicken wings – cornstarch.

Make sure you pat the tofu dry with a paper towel after marinating and before coating or it will absorb too much of the cornstarch. I don’t know how this happened by I forgot to get a shot of putting the tofu into the cornstarch.

Anyway, once you get it all combined in the pan, cook it until the sauce is just about absorbed. However, if you prefer your tofu even crispier, combine with the onion and hold back the sauce. You can serve it on the side as a dipping sauce instead.

We hope you enjoy this version of our recipe! You can have fun with it. Experiment, like we did, with technique and spicing to come up with something completely different all your own.

Tofu can be an appetizer or main dish - even in a salad.

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