Healthy Thai Lime Tofu

When Deborah and I first met with the Care2.com team to plan our “Nourishing the Heart” columns, we served lunch prepared by our HeartMath kitchen, which creates heart nourishing recipes and dishes for our staff. Robyn from Care2 expressed her appreciation for a tofu dish we served. So, in her honor, we would like to share this recipe called “Thai Lime Tofu” with you.

Thai Lime Tofu

Tofu is an excellent source of protein. It truly is a blank canvas when it comes to cooking it. This recipe combines the buttery texture of earth balance, the zest of lime with a kick of red chili paste to give your tofu a luscious and zippy Thai flavor.

Ingredients:

20 oz. Firm Tofu
1 med shallot, minced
1 ½ teaspoons Thai red chili paste
½ cup earth balance
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon minced ginger
2 ½ Tablespoon lime juice
1/3 bunch cilantro, minced
Zest from a whole lime

Directions:

1. Melt earth balance in microwavable container or on stove to melted, not boiling.

2. Add in chili paste and whisk until chili paste melts into earth balance.

3. Add minced shallots, lime zest, salt, ginger, lime juice and cilantro.

4. Pre heat oven to 375.

5. Drain tofu well and cut in ½ inch slabs. Marinate in ¾ of the sauce for 40 minutes in baking pan.

6. Bake tofu uncovered for 15 minutes.

7. Remove from oven, drizzle with remaining drippings from pan and then top with leftover sauce and serve.

Serves 4-6

From the HeartMath Kitchen

Read more: Food, Nourishing the Heart, Vegetarian, chili, ginger, Thai, tofu

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Michele W.

4:56AM PST on Jan 14, 2012

Thank you

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Yvette T.

8:57PM PST on Jan 13, 2012

sounds good

8:55PM PST on Jan 13, 2012

New G.

4:36PM PST on Jan 13, 2012

Thanks for the recipe.

Sarah M.

10:40AM PDT on Jul 15, 2011

That sounds good, yum.

Eternal G.

4:48PM PDT on May 23, 2011

Delicious!

KrassiAWAY B.

12:19PM PDT on May 15, 2011

Noted with interest, thank you Sara.

Robert O.

11:53AM PDT on May 15, 2011

Thanks.

Lovely D.

10:45AM PDT on May 9, 2011

Thank you ... sounds really yummy :)

Kathy S.

1:29PM PDT on May 8, 2011

I made this after it was posted a few weeks back and really liked it -- though I think it might have gone a bit lighter on the earth balance margarine. I thought it might be a bit too spicy for some but it actually turned out fine. Thanks for a new way to prepare tofu