Hello Hive.

If meat,fish and eggs are expensive, what can we use to eat our meals.
Mostly you cannot bear to cook a meal without this toppings unless in the a severe case where there is no money. I call them encouragements, they are usually proteins that makes eating appetizing or appealing.

Lately I have been buying alot of tofu from the street since I never found the need to learn how to cook it. But it seems that it will be more economical if can make this myself and probably add preservatives or store them in the freezer for use over two to three days.

Hence I visited my neighbor and street vendor today who makes tofu for sale and today you are watching us making tofu together. I am learning the process while she is preparing the one for sale today.

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After everything I must tell you that the process is quite easy and you can see our yummy tofu

Cooking procedure for Tofu

First is to soak our soya beans which she has done overnight and taking to the mill for grinding very early in the morning.

After grinding we move on to filter ever shaft inside it. You can filter the semi liquid with a fine mesh
The grinded mixture is mixed with alot of water and filtered.
By then we already have a semi liquid mixture you can see being cooked here.

In order to form the curdling.
We add Sour water into the cooking mixture. mostly when we make our Nigerian pap, the sour water that is retrieved after the pap has passed a night is used.
Just some fermented fluid is added to the mixture to make the tofu cuddle.

The cuddled tofu is hence placed in a sack to remove excess water.
You can use a grinding meal or heavy stone to place above the mixture in a sack like this.

Once that is completed you will you will have your tofu looking fresh like this

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Next we move in to cutting the cuddled tofu into desired size.
And the process of frying begins.
Groundnut oil is used for this purpose. And this is done over moderate heat.

With this we have completed our tofu preparation. For this no preservative whatsoever is added and it is to be eating within 24hrs.
Am thinking of a way to add preservatives for mine so that it can last up to a week or so.
But I will try refrigerating first to see how this goes.

You can chose to eat your tofu with pepper sauce.
Frying any kind of sweet chilli with Maggi cubes and spices like we have done for this.

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With that I believe that someone will join me to make tofu next time and this will have to remain in the family protein for a while

If you have made it this far, thank you for stopping by.