Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chickpea tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chickpea Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chickpea Tofu is something which I have loved my entire life.

Also called chickpea tofu or shan tofu, it is more similar to polenta than tofu, as I'll explain. The wonderful thing about this chickpea tofu recipe, apart from the fact that it's a wonderful soy free. Burmese (chickpea) tofu is made by cooking split pea flour or chickpea flour and water batter until I make my chickpea tofu with chickpea flour and with less liquid so it is a sturdier, and quick version.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chickpea tofu using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chickpea Tofu:

1. Prepare 1 cup Dry Chickpeas
2. Prepare 2 & 1/2 cups Water
3. Get *Note: For softer texture, you can add extra 1/2 cup Water
4. Make ready 1 pinch Salt

As someone who eats a predominantly plant-based diet, you can imagine that I've enjoyed a long history of consuming soy-based foods. Chickpea flour tofu is truly a game changer. It is fast and easy to make, and both versatile and delicious to the extreme! This chickpea flour "tofu" contains no soy but delivers a creamy-firm texture similar to tofu and is easy to pull off at home.

Instructions to make Chickpea Tofu:

1. Place Dry Chickpeas in a large bowl and cover with cold water. The chickpeas will expand to over double their size, so make sure you cover with plenty of water. Soak overnight.
2. Drain the water and discard. Place chickpeas in a blender or food processor. Add Water, and blend into fine pulp that can be filtered by the Cheesecloth that you use.
3. Pour the mixture through Cheesecloth and remove the pulp. Squeeze well and get much liquid as you can. *Note: Use the nutrients-packed pulp for cooking.
4. Stir the liquid very well before you pour it into a saucepan. Heat over medium heat, constantly stirring with a wooden spoon, until it is cooked and looks like custard.
5. Pour into a plastic container or a container lined with plastic food wrap. Set aside to cool, then chill in the fridge.
6. Enjoy with your favourite toppings and sauce. Today I enjoyed with 1/2 Tomato, 1 Spring Onion, 1 teaspoon grated Garlic and 1 teaspoon Soy Sauce.
7. Today I added Chickpea Tofu to a salad, with Broad Beans and Sesame Dressing.

Stir the chickpeas and tofu into the curry and let them heat through. Burmese tofu is made from chickpea flour, meaning it still packs a hefty dose of protein, but without soy. It holds its shape well and has a creamy and silky texture, similar to silken tofu. While tofu is an excellent option for plant-based protein, there is Certified integrative nutritionist, Elissa Goodman recently shared this recipe with us and the star of the show is chickpea tofu. My tofu has a golden glow as it's loaded with turmeric.

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