In the pantry · 21 uses
tofu
Texture is a decision, not a given. Press firm tofu and it browns and takes sauce; silken tofu is a sauce ingredient and will not survive a pan. Buying the wrong one is most of the problem people have with it.
19
dishes and drinks that need it
2
more where it is worth adding
95%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Soy sauce is in 63% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 19
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
- Cold tofu plate5m
- Miso soup with tofu12m
- Tofu kimchi skillet15m
- Crisp tofu in broth20m
- Mapo-style tofu20m
- Miso mushroom soup20m
- Soft tofu stew20m
- Eggplant mapo bowl25m
- Hot pot25m
- Hot-sour tofu soup25m
- Kimchi tofu stew25m
- Mapo tofu25m
- Miso vegetable stew25m
- Tofu peanut bowl25m
- Kimchi stew30m
- Nabe30m
- Sesame baked tofu30m
- Sheet-pan tofu and broccoli30m
- Oden45m
Worth adding · 2
These work without it. They work better with it.