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Fried Coconut Flavored Tofu Recipe

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As a busy working woman and blogger, it’s sometimes hard finding healthy recipes to make at night for my family. After working all day on my writing business, I sometimes feel too exhausted to make complicated recipes. While eating healthy isn’t as expensive as it may seem – cooking healthy meals in the kitchen is often time consuming. While there are pre-packaged meals you can get in the frozen food section, I refuse to buy those heavily processed, overpriced meals. Instead, I go for recipes that are simple, easy to make, and oh so very delicious – like tofu recipes!

On our vegetarian nights, I sometimes enjoy cooking with tofu. One of the things I am very picky about, however, is how I cook it since quite a few of the tofu recipes out there are just…well…nasty. I have found that tofu recipes that originate from Asian countries are typically best since they don’t try making tofu anything more than what it is – tofu. Really, I find that to be the main reason most people hate tofu since companies try making it taste like meat and other items, when in actuality, tofu has a wonderful, clean taste of its own.

While I am normally against frying, I do make an exception when I can completely control how items are fried. For example, I love frying with coconut oil since it is very healthy and isn’t filled with unhealthy animal fats. From my own experience, if fried properly, it also takes less oil and cooking time to fry with coconut oil, allowing you to have food that less greasy and more flavorful. As well, coconut oil gives a very light coconut flavor to what you are frying, allowing you to have some of the benefits of coconut flakes without the extra sugar and fat! Below is one of my favorite quick fix tofu recipes.  It’s very easy to make and if you want a spicier flavor, just add more spices to the flour mixture.

 

 

Fried Coconut Flavored Tofu Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 Package Extra Firm Tofu
  • 1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour
  • 1 Teaspoon Black Pepper freshly ground
  • 1 Cup Panko
  • Coconut Oil
  • Soy Sauce For Dipping

Instructions

  1. Drain the tofu well and set to dry for about ten minute on a dry plate.
  2. As the tofu is drying, divide the ingredients into 3 bowls – one with panko, one with eggs, and the third with the rice and pepper.
  3. Cut Tofu horizontally in half, and then cut into 18 – 24 square pieces.
  4. Very carefully start breading each of the tofu pieces – first with the flour mixture, than the egg, and finish with the panko breading. Place each piece of tofu on a plate and repeat until all the pieces are breaded.
  5. Fill a frying pan with coconut oil. Coconut oil melts and heats up quickly, so be careful! There should be about ¼ inch of coconut oil in the pan. Test the coconut oil to see if it’s the right temperature. Place the tip of a wooden toothpick of chopstick in the pan – if the oil is bubbling around the tip, it is hot enough for frying.
  6. Place all the tofu pieces in the pan and brown each side of the pieces of tofu. When finished, each piece should look golden brown.
  7. Serve hot with a small side of soy sauce.

About 

Susan Bewley is a professional writer who has been writing content online & in print format for over 10 years. As well, she is an alumni of the University of Louisville with a Masters Degree in Special Education. When not working as an online business consultant or ghost writing, she can be found writing on Budget Earth, on her own novel, or working with various entities in the pet industry.

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    • Tofu takes on the flavor of whatever sauce or seasoning you decide to use. If you eat it by itself right out of the container, it is watery, a bit firm, like an almost thick, milky jello. It is more a palatte clenser than a flavor, if it makes any sense.

  5. Thanks for the recipe! I don't eat tofu often, but do I love coconut flavoring. I'll have to try this out sometime 🙂

  7. I love coconut flavoring also. Tofu not so much. Although I have had a few things made from Tofu that I enjoyed. I might just give this a try. It looks very good.

    • It’s a very subtle coconut flavor – with a sauce you likely wouldn’t taste it. My husband ate it with tomoto sauce for lunch and said he couldn’t taste it, so I’m assuming that would work 🙂

  17. I love this recipe!I am trying to incorporate more Tofu in my diet.Even my kids would enjoy this.

  18. This looks really good. I'm looking forward to trying this recipe. I'd probably add some additional seasoning like sea vegetables and Old Bay, or cajun seasoning.

     

  22. Interesting! Not sureif my sons father would even try a meatless meal though. But I totally would and have.

  26. I am going to buy tofu next time i go to the store and make this for myself. i am sure i will be the only one eating eat but you never know!

  27. Fantastic!! This will be my first Tofu recipe. My son recntly got into supplements, Body by Vi, the gym and all that comes with it. When I make family meals my will eat before he comes over. Now I will have a marvelous dish for all of us. We love coconut. This will taste great and make for a good meal. Thanks!!

  28. ive heard basd reviews about tofu and heard its really nasty but this tofu looks pretty actually good 

  29. That sounds pretty good! I like the idead of a healthier fried food, and it would be interesting to experiment with different spices.

  30. Great recipe!  I may make this tonight for Meatless Monday.  One tofu tip: after squeezing out some of the water in the tofu, I soak it in very salty water for at least an hour, drain and dry before using.  This pulls even more of the water out of the tofu and makes it more crispy.

    • That is a great tip! If you can handle the extra calories, I have also started adding coconut flakes to my panko. This make it taste even more amazing!

  32. This looks so good!!!!!!! I always wanted to try tofu now I can because of this great recipe!!!

  34. Agedashi tofu is one of my favorite tofu dishes to get out at a restaurant & this looks really simular.  I cannot wait to try it soon.  Thanks for the recipe.  

  37. Tofu is so good when you dress it up! I wish more people were adventurous with the vegetarian food.

  40. This is something that I have never done with tofu, I would love to give it a try.  Thank you for sharing this recipe.