Your tofu could be like this, but you playin' yourself.

Extra firm tofu cut in half so you have

flat steaks

Olive oil as needed

Seasoned flour

Shiitake mushrooms

Tablespoon of rice vinegar

Teaspoon of grated ginger

Tablespoon red miso paste

Red pepper flake as much as you like

1 tablespoon sesame oil

Green onions

Cherry tomatos

Sesame seeds

Tofu Steaks with Miso Shiitake Mushrooms

Tofu might be a tricky food so let’s tackle it with a great recipe.

This is a recipe from Okinawa, Japan where people live to be 90 years or older on average. This is whats called a blue zone which also includes Sardinia, Italy, Nicoya, Costa Rica, Ikaria, Greece, and Loma Linda,

California. All these areas are mostly plant based.

Now back to Japan. Okinawans eat tofu everyday twice as much as the rest of Japan. They have tofu shops where it is handmade and usually still warm when it’s sold. Tofu has lots of heath benefits, it has all the essential amino acids you need as well as 8g of protein.

It’s very simple to make this recipe.

You get some plain old flour and throw whatever spices you like into it and mix it around real good. Wah-la seasoned flour. It sounds super fancy especially if you say it with a French accent. (You can even read the rest of this in a French accent if you’d like.) So ya cut that tofu in half long ways, nice flat steaks ya digg?

Lay it in the flour and get both sides covered in your perfectly concocted flour.

Get some oil in a pan. Heat it up! Make sure it’s hot.

Drop those tofus in that oil. Boom.

Now honestly probably gonna take a while on each side you gotta keep checking them, making sure you don’t break your tofu while sliding under to look.

If you don’t have a “fish spatula” now would be the time to go on amazon and buy one. Get those tofus nice and brown on each side, you know how you like it. Do that.

In a separate

pan or pot put together the

Tablespoon of rice vinegar

Teaspoon of grated ginger

Tablespoon red miso paste

Red pepper flake as much as you like

1 tablespoon sesame oil

Let it get warm, and add your mushrooms.

Cut your mushrooms how ever you feel like eating them, slices, pieces, in half, great.

You can add more sesame oil if it’s looking a little dry.

Even olive oil works to not over power it with sesame taste.

Once those fu’s are done get um on plates. One fu usually makes two steaks, unless you slicing mad thin BOY!

Throw some green onions in your mushrooms NOW!

And top that tofu wit um. Drizzle some sesame oil on your dish and toss some sesame seed on there as well. You did it you're a pro.

Super easy stuff and very good. Might need some salt and pepper to season as you eat. Like a true Italian.

Listen do whatever you want though. All recipes are just a basic outline of an idea you could add on to. I didn’t write amounts of most ingredients cause I believe you can figure it out. You know what you want. More mushrooms go for it, less tofu go for it. No tofu at all? Make rice. Go for it.