Ingredients
- One block extra-firm tofu
- 3 tbsp corn starch
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Press the tofu for 30 minutes.
- Mix soy sauce and olive oil together in one container; mix seasonings and corn starch together in another.
- Add pressed tofu, cut into cubes, to the soy sauce and olive oil mix.
- Shake the container a bit just to get the tofu nicely coated in the liquid.
- Add seasoning + corn starch mix and shake more until everything’s coated.
- Preheat air fryer to 375°F or 190°C.
- Cook for 15 minutes; shake halfway through.
- Enjoy your air-fried estrogen cubes!
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The coating on those looks sooo good! The corn starch is such a game changer
Your food posts always look delicious 🤤
Try this next time, and report back so I know I’m not crazy: preheat, air fry at 420 (nice), and when you shake halfway through drop the temp to 400.
It makes a nice crispy outside, and 420 no scoping tofu ovvi good
My air fryer definitely doesn’t go that high (pun intended), but maybe I can try 400 and then do 375 halfway.
Throw some weed in there it’ll figure it out
I’d probably leave it cranked up to 400f in that case
Preheat air fryer
I guess I could deepfry it.I parboil the tofu cubes in salted water for a few minutes, wait for it to cool and then coat in corn starch and pan fry for about 5 minutes before flipping for another 5 minutes.
Thanks I will try this. I was thinking about deep frying wok prior to this.
I generally try and shoot for ways that don’t take a bunch of oil. If you’re concerned about the other sides not getting crunchy you can go for a more rectangular cut.
Rectangular cuts are easier with a slab of tofu too and I prefer crunchy tbh
An air fryer is a smaller, more efficient, convection oven. If you have an oven with a fan/convection setting, especially if it has a broiler mode that it’ll let you turn on at the same time, you’ll get similar results. Just with more preheating needed and some tweaking to the recipe.
I don’t have an oven either unfortunately.
can i do this in the oven somehow
What are ovens if not shitty airfryers
I’ve tried, it’s really hard to get an even crisp with just a convection oven, so the only reliable method I’ve found is to use the grill (broiler if you’re a yank) and them remove them halfway, shake and then continue grilling through to make sure all sides are baked evenly.
I make these in the oven. They aren’t quite as good as I think they would be in an air fryer, but I don’t have one of those and don’t have enough room for another kitchen gadget right now.
If you want to try them in the oven, follow the recipe up until it’s time to put them in the air fryer, then instead lay them on a baking sheet, ideally lined with parchment paper to help them not stick to your sheet, and put them in the oven at 400F for like an hour. You could try to flip or stir them halfway through, but I find they’re usually slightly stuck to the parchment paper at that point and it’s just not really worth it to try to flip them.
question about step 5. are you adding the cubes to the second container with the dry mix and shaking? or adding the dry mix from the second container into the first container with the cubes + soy sauce/oil and then shaking?
these look good as hell and I’m definitely gonna try making some
I add the cubes to the wet mix, the soy sauce and the oil, and then I sprinkle the seasoning over the cubes in that container with the wet mix and tofu. After that, everything should all be in one place, and you shake.
got it, thank you!! 🙏🙏
I’m just learning so I’m a bit lost.
How do you mix the cornstarch and seasonings? Just take the 3tbspn of cornstarch and pop it into a bowl and put seasonings on it and then you toss it around and then sprinkle that over the tofu? Or is there more to “prep” them?
That looks really good, by the way, and I’m about to cook more tofu tomorrow. I just started cooking tofu but couldn’t get it cripsy so I think this will do it.
Put all the dry stuff in the same bowl, yes, so:
- corn starch + garlic powder + onion powder + smoked paprika + salt + pepper all in one container
I use a lid and just shake em around and after that, you got your dry mix!
I sprinkle the mix over the tofu in a different container where I swished it around with soy sauce and olive oil.
After you get the tofu coated with everything, you can pop it in the air fryer when it’s done preheating.
It’s very simple.
Thank you, Comrade!
Can you keep what’s left of the mix or do you have to toss it?
If you find a use for it, I don’t see why not! I try to not leave much leftover, though.
Nope. Fucked that up. Haha
I ended up cooking it up for 30 minutes at 400f because I couldn’t get the cornstarch to cook, it was still mostly as white as it was when I sprinkled it on the tofu. By the end of it, it was still there as if I hadn’t even cooked it. Tofu was cooked as fuck though. Oh well.
when you said estrogen cubes i thought you made something with estrogen in it…
Welllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Thanks OP looking into this
Looks great
Oh damn, that looks nice! Do you think they might work well added to a stir fry? I might try that and report back!
It should! For stir-fries, I don’t typically use fried tofu, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t taste good if you did.
Reporting back in, they were delicious! The stir fry sauce did make them no longer crispy though.
Oh shit
I get why I need an air fryer now
0/10 thread it doesn’t have
“1 tbsp soy sauce”
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