Tofu nugget recipe - for Unita and anyone else interested. :)

May 11, 2009

This is from Super Baby Foods (see, it's a great book for those who

have seen folks recommend it. I still use this and a few other recipes

from it).

Preheat oven 350 degrees

I prefer extra-hard/extra firm and firm tofu for this (water packed,

though I've used the same 'hardness' of the mori-nu with fine results.

I slice the tofu into either triangles or rectangles depending on

however I feel at the time (short on time gets the more boring shapes

LOL) You can do 'fingers' or nuggets.

Dip into melted earth balance (or whatever margarine type sub you use,

olive oil would work instead, too) or some kind of non-dairy type milk

or water. I have also used a watered down (slightly) dip of Veganaise

and I have used ground flax 'eggs' to coat them to get a nice thick

coating of breading. I have also not used anything else, and didn't

press the tofu - just them being wet let enough breading to stick.

Season some plain breadcrumbs with Nutritional yeast, paprika, salt

and pepper, garlic and onion powder, parsley, sage, poultry seasoning,

oregano, or whatever combinations of spices you like. Mix together.

Dip tofu into wet stuff, then coat with breadcrumbs. Bake on ungreased

cookie sheet for 15-20 min's turning them over once to brown on both

sides.

Or cook in microwave till heated through (I have not done this, but

the book suggests it).

I have varied this in different ways (spices, wet ingredients) and

they always come out great. Serve with some kind of dips (ketchup, bbq

sauce, marinara, curry, really anything sauce-y works fine. My son

likes them just plain). I imagine you can probably freeze them before

or after breading them (the softer mori-nu seems to always get too

crumbly for me to do it before, but we've not gotten that kind in a

while since we get water packed by the case from our food buying

club/co-op. I think if you freeze them 'flat' on the baking sheet

before baking, they will still get the crazy texture change that some

people like better for things like this, but it's not really

necessary.

Missie

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM, unita walburn <uwalburn wrote:

>

> Missie,

> please share your vegan nugget recipe.

> unita

>

> ________________________________

> Missie <mszzzi

>

> Friday, May 8, 2009 5:22:14 PM

>

> Re: new with questions

>

> Beans and rice, lentils and rice, hummus and pita or other tortillas

> for making wraps, Seitan (there's a bunch of recipes online for this -

> vegandad.blogspot. com has great recipes for baked wingz and other

> things). You can make a cheezy sauce (there's a great one in

> Veganomicon) that you can use over veggies or whatever - uses

> Nutritional Yeast (great b-12 source, and other b-vites, too).. Tofu,

> you can freeze it to get a different texture - we make nuggets and

> bread/bake them and NO MATTER how much I make they are always gone!

> Probably good to have on hand/frozen.

>

> I know my son loves fresh/dried/ frozen fruit for snacks. We also get

> some vegan cheeses and Tofutti better than Cream Cheese to spread on

> crackers or veggies for him. We do pizza with the cheeses too (I do a

> blend of the Follow Your Heart Monteray Jack and Veganrella Mozzarella

> and it's amazing - we also add veggies and/or fake-meats to it too or

> serve with a big ol salad).

>

> Oh, there's also pre-made things you might want to pick up for lunches

> for him since they may have only just a salad for him at school (I

> don't know what vegetarian options you have there) but he can take

> sandwiches, make a tofu-salad that's like egg salad, or what not) .

>

> When I was in high school, I knew lots of vegetarians who basically

> ate nothing but mac-n-cheese and they sure weren't healthy and got

> sick a lot. He still needs a variety of foods - just different plant

> based ones now. He might just not know what else there is to have,

> or his options at school might not be enough, since he is a growing

> boy.

>

> Hope this helps a bit. I wasn't sure what exactly you were looking for.

> Missie

>

> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:47 AM, tesikohl <tesik wrote:

>>

>> Hi All,

>>

>> My 15 year-old son became a vegan about 6 months ago. I have been reading

>> and learning to cook for him, and most evenings we have a vegan dinner. I

>> also have baked vegan sweet treats and encouraged him to drink chocolate

>> soy

>> milk and smoothies to add to his intake.

>>

>> BUT my son, already tall and very thin, has lost 10 pounds in the past six

>> months, and last night he stood up from the sofa and fainted, hitting his

>> jaw on a chair on the way down, and narrowly missing breaking his neck or

>> busting his head on the fireplace. Scary!

>>

>> He is a generally healthy kid, with good energy, so this isn't some

>> strange

>> underlying illness. He's just not getting enough food. He's taking a good

>> multi-vitamin with B12 in it. At school they have vegetarian options, but

>> those often have cheese, so he's having some trouble getting enough

>> calories

>> at school, and he is so completely tired of peanut-butter sandwiches,

>> which

>> he ate a lot of at school at first, that he won't eat them anymore.

>>

>> I need suggestions for higher calorie, interesting and tasty foods. Fast.

>> The boy is almost 6 foot 3, and he weighs 145 lbs now!

>>

>> thanks

>>

>> Teresa

>>

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May 11, 2009

Thats funny. I have the book, but never made this recipe. I guess its time I got

reaquainted with it. I going to fix them right now.

unita

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Missie <mszzzi

Monday, May 11, 2009 11:06:05 AM

Tofu nugget recipe - for Unita and anyone else interested.