Tomato Peach & Tofu Salad Recipe

I don’t know when I stopped making salad every night, but it happened. That’s non to say I don’t swallow salad anymore, I in all probability swallow it to a greater extent than frequently than ever, I merely swallow it every bit a original dish instead. At to the lowest degree several times a calendar week for luncheon as well as at to the lowest degree in ane lawsuit a calendar week for dinner, I serve a original dish salad. What makes it a original dish? I’d say protein. And tofu is a perfect plant-based poly peptide for salads. 

H5N1 few weeks agone I attended an termination hosted yesteryear House Foods organic tofu. Chef Melissa King did the cooking as well as too a cooking demo. I picked upwards a lot of expert ideas. I loved her accept on a Caprese salad as well as I’ve made my ain versions of it several times. In ane version I made a modest seize amongst teeth manner appetizer yesteryear placing diced tomatoes as well as tofu on large basil leaves as well as dressed them amongst coarse common salt as well as extra virgin olive oil. In another, I was captivated yesteryear to a greater extent than or less other recipe I establish for Tomato-Peach Salad amongst Tofu Cream. But I wanted the salad to survive a original dish, rather than a starter then I made to a greater extent than or less changes. 

My version uses tofu inwards 2 ways, I used it every bit a creamy dressing as well as too inwards pieces. It’s a real calorie-free summery salad, perfect for lunch. The soft tofu is actually prissy amongst the juicy peaches as well as tomatoes. I shouldn’t direct keep to say it, but this recipe relies on the best character lucious as well as sugariness produce. If nectarines gustatory modality meliorate than peaches, yesteryear all way purpose them instead. The fresh basil, common salt as well as pepper render a prissy residuum to the sweetness of the the fruit. 

Tomato Peach Tofu Salad

Serves 4

Ingredients

fourteen ounce bundle silken tofu

1 Tablespoon sherry vinegar

2 1/2 teaspoons soy sauce

2 large heirloom tomatoes

2 large peaches

1 bunch fresh basil, nearly xx leaves

4 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil

Coarse common salt as well as freshly dry reason pepper

Instructions

Cut the tofu into 2 halves. Place ane while inwards the blender amongst the sherry vinegar as well as soy sauce as well as blend until creamy. Taste for seasoning. 

Take the other one-half of the tofu as well as while it into nearly xx pieces. Slice the tomatoes as well as peaches into sparse wedges. 

Spoon the creamy sauce into iv plates overstep amongst slices of tomatoes, peaches, tofu as well as basil leaves. Drizzle each plate amongst a teaspoon of olive crude oil as well as complete amongst a generous pinch of common salt as well as dark pepper to taste. 

Enijoy!  

Disclamer: My thank you lot to Washington State Fruit Commission for the peaches as well as House Foods for the tofu.  

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