Dippin Sticks

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Recipe submitted by Heather, 09/11/04

Dippin Sticks

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

1 container extra firm tofu
1/4 cup corn meal
2-3 tablespoon nutritional yeast
1 teaspoon salt (optional)
soy sauce (optional)

Directions:

After draining and lightly pressing tofu to get rid of excess moisture, slice tofu into French fry shape. They should be about 1/2 wide and 2 long. If they are too big they won't stay together when they are dipped.

On a plate or in a shallow bowl mix together corn meal and yeast (salt is optional) and either dip tofu sticks in soy sauce then roll in the corn meal mixture or go straight to the corn meal and skip the soy sauce. I use soy sauce only occasionally and some times use teriyaki sauce in place of it and that usually makes them just a little more crispy.

Place them on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with a little oil and bake at 350 for 15 minutes, turn over and bake for 15 minutes. These can be pan fried but I like being able to put them all in the oven and walk away, and its more healthy baking them.

Let cool and serve with any dipping sauce like marinara, mustard, ketchup, soy-ranch, or anything you've got laying around. My kids love them and I love giving them to them, they are so cheap and easy to make.

Serves: 2-3

Preparation time: 5 min.

sounds great! ill have to try this

Archived comment by: stride4unity

Yum! I liked them as did the kids (well, except the 4 year old, but he never eats anything anyway). Super-easy to make! I didn't have brewers yeast, so I just made do with the cornmeal.

Archived comment by: aeowen

nutritional yeast is not brewers yeast.

Archived comment by: moonshadow

I have read that brewers yeast and nutrional yeast are the same thing. At my health food store its labled in the bin like this Nutrional/Brewers Yeast

Archived comment by: yellowBellyHippy

YellowBellyHippy-I think it is called that because it is a nutritional supplent-type product. You don't want to eat it if you don't have to! The only thing I use it for is putting it in my doggys cookies. You want the yellow almost nutty-smelling nutritional yeast flakes. They are a source of b-12 and the most popular name is Red Star. Get it in bulk if possible (about 1/2 the proce of bottled/canned). Brewers yeast in my opinion does not have a great smell. It also looks very different (brown/gritty)

Archived comment by: vegetasia

i added more nutritional yeast. these were pretty good

Archived comment by: secondbase


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Re: Dippin Sticks

« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2007, 08:20:25 PM »

We tried this the other night and thought they were pretty good! I added a 1/2 Tbsp. of flour, some pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder to the breading, and did dip them in soy sauce. I made sure to press the breading on each side many times (pressing down on the top of the tofu stick).

I liked them a bit better when they cooled, and think I will use marinara sauce next time as my dip I used ketchup). I may also try baking the sticks a little bit first or may use frozen/thawed tofu.


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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2007, 09:18:55 PM »

I just finished eating these. I really wish I took a picture of them.
they were super tasty and crunchy. I did use some garlic and onion powder with a dash of seasoning salt.
My boy and I decided to use dill sauce to dip.

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Re: Dippin Sticks

« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2007, 09:54:14 PM »

i had a flashback to my dads fresh fried bluegill when i ate these! (even though i baked them) i nixed the soy sauce but added a few shakes of onion and garlic powders. also, i used tofu that had been frozen and then thawed. dipped em into a mix of veganaise and lemon juice and they were delish!


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Re: Dippin Sticks

« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2007, 07:41:44 PM »

im not a big tofu fan so that might be why but...

i thought it had a slightly of taste, it might be the soy sauce??

i liked the crunchy exterior it developed but i wasnt tooo excited about tasting the mealines of corn meal on the tofu.

probabaly wont make again

but it did taste a bit like chicken nuggets!!


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Re: Dippin Sticks

« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2009, 02:45:39 PM »

i think these would have turned out better if the tofu had been frozen and thawed first. i used a little cayenne pepper in my breading, but wish i had thought to add both garlic and onion powder. will definately make this again using those changes.


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