Instructions: Divide the tofu into four cups. Mix together the sauce ingredients and sprinkle them on top. Flavor with chili pepper flakes if desired. You can also sprinkle the tofu with dried bonita flakes.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Comments: Tofu - bean curd - is one of those things that you either growing up loving, or you spend much of the rest of your life trying to acquire a taste for - a taste not easily acquired. Which is a pity, for tofu is one of the healthiest products on earth, an ingredient made by grinding soybeans into pulp, draining the soy milk, then pressing it into a sort of "soy cheese" in much the same way that cottage cheese is made. Tofu is high in protein, calcium and B vitamins, yet low in fat. Like the potato, it has very little taste of its own, instead taking on the flavor of whatever its cooked with. And its a ubiquitous part of the Japanese diet, eat cold with soy and ginger, or hot in any number of stews. As a simple salad or appetizer, it cant be beat. All you have to do is cut it into small cubes, and sprinkle it with any number of basic sauces.

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