How to Make Soy Milk and Tofu

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How to Make Soy Milk and Tofu

Lara Lima

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Put the soybeans to soak for 8 hours

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Strain it

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Blend it with water. 1 cup of soybeans for 2 cups of water.

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Blend until it looks like milk

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Get a cotton fabric, and strain the liquid.

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You'll have to squeeze it to take the most of it.

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This is the "okara"

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"okara", it's the name of the residue from the milk. You can make cookies, cakes and other recipes with it. You can save it for 3 days in the refrigerator, to use it later.

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The milk is done. If you want the milk, it's ready, if you're going to make tofu, put it in a big pan, and boil it.

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You will need 2 identical pots latter

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The juice of 2 lemons

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Rosemary

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Let the milk boil, but I recommend to stay close and pay attention, so it won't happen with you. It took ages to clean it latter. LOL

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When it boils, turn the fire off and put a cup of water in room temperature.

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The lemon juice with rosemary and stir it. It will start to curdle.

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Add salt

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Pepper flakes and other spices of your taste. I added basil as well, but I couldn't take the pictures because I needed to be quick. Add the spices and close the pan.

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Pierce one of the pots, the water needs to drain.

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Cover it with the cotton fabric. I suggest doing it inside your kitchen sink.

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The milk is already clotted.

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Put it inside the pot

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Cover it with the fabric

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Put the other pot inside it

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And a weight on the top of it. Let it rest for 20 min

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Take the fabric carefully

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It's ready!!! Easy, easy!!!

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Thanks to Karuna and Gokula for sharing the recipe on http://karunapurna.blogspot.com If you speak Portuguese, go to their blog, lots of delicious vegan meals.

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2 Cups Soybean

Water

Basil

Rosemary

Pepper Flakes

2 lemons juice

1 Tablespoon Salt

I will try this sometime it sounds so good!

Diya P 9 months ago

No... You will not smell anything vinegary! It's what I use as a softener! It works magically! Good luck!

Heidi Feldman 9 months ago

Corey... Trust me, if you don't have cheese cloth, then do definitely without question use LINT-FREE cloth! You've seen them everywhere... They're very thin and very tightly woven cloth... They're sometimes called glass towel, tea cloth towel, flour sack cloth and other names. Just don't buy any that have iron-on transfers... Unless you'll be seeing some of bits in the tofu!!! I buy mine privately from Brooklyn, NY. The woman screen prints, et on the cloth and does gorgeous work. You can find such cloth ANYWHERE that sell kitchen supplies. Stay very far away from terry cloth! Never never use fabric softener in towels, bed sheets/linen because the cloth will not improve with age. Our body when wet is instantly dried by towels never treated with fabric softener! The softener when added to linen, avoids absorbing moister. To clean your washing machine entirely of gunk, just fill the machine on full cycle and then when it's full, add an entire full gallon of clear vinegar.

Heidi Feldman 9 months ago