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Blueberry ‘French toast’ tofu sticks
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think breakfast for dinner is a fantastic idea. It is fast and tasty, and in the morning I never have much more than a Kashi granola bar
Recipe
I had been kicking around an idea for using frozen blueberries, pancake mix and tofu to make a marinated, battered, French-toastish tofu sticks. Knowing I’d be at work all day, I had to make the marinade in the morning and get the tofu sticks sopping up blueberry goodness. I microwave-defrosted about half a small bag of frozen blueberries with about a half cup of water. Then I mixed an eighth of a cup of sugar and microwaved the blueberries another 2 minutes.
While the microwave was running, I sliced the firm tofu and soaked up any excess liquid I had not already pressed out. I buried the tofu in the blueberries, sealed them, threw them in the refrigerator and went to work. It probably only took me 6 or 7 minutes to do this.
After I got home I rolled the marinated tofu sticks in a store bought whole wheat pancake mix and fried them in vegetable oil for about 4 minutes on each side until they were nice and brown. Then I blended the leftover marinade and heated it up in the microwave to make a blueberry syrup topping. Ok, I wouldn’t exactly call it syrup, but you get the point.
This was not my best effort, but it was certainly good enough to keep playing with the recipe. I wanted to get the idea out there, though, since I couldn’t find anything similar online.
Ingredients
- One package firm or extra firm tofu
- About 1.5 cups of frozen blueberries
- About 1 cup pancake mix
- 1/8 cup of sugar
- 1/4 inch vegetable oil in a skillet
Sides
I served this along with some diced russet potatoes that I cooked with red bell pepper and white onion and some veggie breakfast sausage patties.
March 1st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Oooo…I’m going to try this!