| If you are a Vegan, are considering becoming a | | | | regularly include it in your diet as you would meat. |
| Vegan, or know or love somebody who already is a | | | | Many vegans out there choose not to include tofu in |
| Vegan, you probably have some idea of how | | | | their diets, simply for reasons of taste. Not everybody |
| important tofu is in the Vegan diet. Many people think | | | | is going to like everything and let's face it; tofu isn't one |
| that cooking tofu for Vegans is difficult to do, and | | | | of the tastiest foods out there, but it can be worked |
| many others still think that tofu doesn't taste good but | | | | with. Cooking tofu is an art. Tofu can definitely ruin a |
| there are plenty of people out there that would | | | | meal, but not if it's prepared right. |
| choose to differ. | | | | It is often said that when you cook with tofu, it does |
| Cooking tofu for vegans isn't difficult, but it is a matter | | | | not maintain a taste of its own, but it does tend to take |
| of science just as any other cooking is a science. | | | | the taste of the food it is prepared with. For example, |
| Including tofu in your diet is a good way to supplement | | | | if you were to include tofu in a Vegan tofu stir fry, it |
| your meals. It acts as a replacement for that which | | | | takes the taste of the noodles and soy sauce in the |
| meat would normally provide, as far as essential | | | | stir fry; if you include tofu in spaghetti, it would take the |
| vitamins and minerals go. Many of the non-meat | | | | taste of the vegetables and/or the marinara sauce. |
| products that you buy in the grocery store are actually | | | | For Vegans, cooking tofu can be rather intimidating, but |
| made with tofu; that is how commonplace and | | | | it doesn't have to be. If you are considering become a |
| important tofu is in many aspects of the Vegan diet. | | | | Vegan, or just want to learn about cooking tofu for a |
| Is cooking tofu imperative for Vegans? Probably not. | | | | Vegan you love, there are ways to learn. The internet |
| Tofu is a soy bean product, and soy beans are | | | | is chock full of great recipes for tofu-cooking |
| packed with protein. Protein is the important part of | | | | beginners, from the tofu spaghetti and stir-fry that was |
| meat that makes it so imperative in our diet, so | | | | already discussed to great veggie burgers, hot dogs, |
| replacing meat with tofu in your diet is a great way of | | | | and other things. |
| keeping the protein and eliminating the dangerous | | | | Cooking tofu for Vegans doesn't have to be a chore, |
| animal fat. The problem with being a vegetarian lies in | | | | and with proper information and a bit of practice, you |
| the dangers of not having enough protein in your diet, | | | | shouldn't have to live with results that are less than |
| but tofu can help to eliminate this as a risk at all if you | | | | pleasing for very long. |