Readers’ recipe swap: Tofu | Dale Berning Sawa

Firm or silken, your recipes prove that proper tofu should be at the centre of a meal, not on the sidelines.It’s a shame, I feel, that for many people tofu is a tasteless meat substitute, to be overloaded with all the flavour it doesn’t naturally come with. Of course, if you only encounter it in long-life Tetra Paks, I understand why you’d want to amp up the aromatics. Tofu, traditionally, isn’t meant to last longer than the day it’s made. Which is why in Japan you