Tofu Dinner

On my visit to Enlightened Cuisine, I noticed that the restaurant also sells frozen mock meats such as fish, duck and beef. Since the quality of the mock meats I had tasted in their dishes that night was good, I wanted to buy some. Some mock meats are too sweet, or the texture not right. The ones at Enlightened Cuisine were just nice. Gaz spotted a 'cod fish' fillet which he thought we should buy. Since the real cod fish is $42 a kilo nowadays, and the 500g 'cod' was about $10, I decided to buy a pack to try it out.

This is how it looks like, on the night I steamed them with some ginger. It would be better if I had a thickened sauce base to pour over it after steaming, but it tasted just as good without. Texture wise, it does not have the slippery buttery texture of a cod. Perhaps it should be more aptly named 'Mackerel fish' but taste wise, it was just as I expected of mock fish.

In keeping up with the soy theme of the dinner, I made chicken nuggets. Yes, but where's the soy, you ask? I mixed firm tofu with minced chicken breast to form these nuggets! Ingenious... as the tofu blended really well with the coarser chicken breast and made it juicy and soft. Just 1:2 tofu:chicken breast, mixed with some flour, salt & pepper then crumbed with panko and shallow fried to golden perfection!!! Gaz gave these his thumbs up!