Description
Learning to make your own tofu is not only satisfying and exciting, but you also get fresh soy milk from the process.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups dry soy beans
- 4 cups water
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
Instructions
- Soak dry soy beans in enough water to come up till and inch above the level of beans. Soak the beans overnight or a minimum of 8 hours.
- Drain the water in which the beans have been soaking and add fresh 4 cups of water.
- Place the soaked beans along with the water into a blender and whiz to form a smooth liquid. If the beans and water is too much then do this step in two batches.
- Pour the blended soy mixture into a deep pot (soup pot) and place over medium low heat.
- Cook this mixture stirring gently but continuously till it comes to a boil.
- Turn the heat to low and cook for another 3 to 4 minutes stirring continuously.
- Turn the heat off and let the mixture cool to a point where its cool enough to touch.
- Place a clean kitchen towel over a large bowl and pour the liquid into the kitchen towel.
- Lift the towel and squeeze as much of the liquid as you can. Place another bowl with water on top of the towel to help with this process.
- You just made fresh soy milk. You should get about 4 cups of it.
- Pour the soy milk in a heavy bottom pot and heat on medium low, stirring occasionally.
- You just want the mixture to heat through and not boil. It should be around 175 C.
- Turn the heat off and slowly add the rice vinegar. Stir gently and cover with a lid. Leave the mixture covered for 10 to 12 minutes.
- In the meantime prepare an 8×8 square dish and line it with clean kitchen towel.
- After ten minutes the curds will separate. Pour the mixture into the pan lined with the kitchen towel. Cover the top of the tofu with a piece of cloth the exact same size as the pan – 8x 8 in this case. Place a plate (that fits inside of the pan) on top of the kitchen towel. For a firmer tofu, place some weight like a can of soup on top of the plate.
- The tofu will release a lot of water, keep tilting the pan over the sink to remove it.
- Let the tofu sit in the pan for about 15 minutes, then gently remove it from the kitchen towel.
- Place on a chopping board and cut in cubes.
- Category: Side, Protein