 Today's recipe we're making tofu tacos, and I'm going to show you how to make the tofu so that it is more meat-like So that even your non-vegan friends can enjoy this recipe as well I'm going to be adding some corn and some black beans to our mixture and we're going to finish it off with some guacamole and Cheese so I'm rockin Robin, and I'm going to show you how to do it right after our chef joke So I'd like to start off with a little chef joke for you I'll have a second one for you a little bit later in the video So I tried to find some good tofu jokes for you today, but they were all tasteless We're going to begin with our tofu So what I have here is a block of firm or extra firm, whichever you can find firm is the best really And we're going to take it and we're going to crumble it in the bowl And you want to have the pieces be in a variety of sizes because what's what we're going to do here is we're going to end up cooking this in the oven and that's going to dry it out and We're going to have this variation in sizes of the little crumbles so that the small ones are going to be more Meaty more chewy and the bigger ones are going to be a little more tender and soft like you think of you know When you're eating tofu so that's going to give us a nice little variation in texture That's going to make it more like real meat so go ahead and crumble everything in I did not pat this dry I just kind of took it out of the container and just drain the excess water off To the tofu, I'm going to add some avocado oil or you can use olive oil if you want I'm going to give that a little stir And to this I'm going to add some ancho chili powder and I'm going to sprinkle it in so that it gets dispersed more evenly You can get all the Ingredients down below in the description of this video click down there where it says show more and If you want if you don't have ancho chili powder you could sub in regular chili powder Chipotle chili powder, you know, whatever you have Next I have some smoked paprika I'll give it a nice little smoky flavor And I also have some tamari sauce. This is a gluten-free version of soy sauce You could use soy sauce if you want I'll add a little bit of that And the tofu as you know is going to take on all these flavors because it basically has not a lot of flavor in it of itself Now some ground cumin and some oregano We're gonna add some garlic salt to this And a little bit of salt so we're gonna pour our tofu onto a parchment paper-covered baking sheet and we want to spread it out so that as it cooks it can actually dry out the tofu So we're gonna place this into a 350-degree Fahrenheit oven for 15 minutes then we'll give it a stir and then return it to the oven for another probably 20 minutes So now we can start by making some guacamole. So we've got some red onion here, which I'm going to finely dice Then we'll chop up some tomato into some small chunks add the avocado to a bowl Then we'll add the tomato and onion to the avocado Give that a little mash and then of course we want to add a fair amount of salt We'll blend that up and then it'll be ready for when we put our tacos together All right, so the tofu is still cooking in there. It's getting close to 30 minutes and We're gonna do something else here to help make this Tofu taste more like meat. So I got some Avocado oil here or you could use olive oil and I put my temperature on medium to start And I've got some diced up Mushrooms just little cremini mushrooms nothing special just a little bit of meaty flavor That's what that's going to give this and I did the super fine dice here on these because I like to You know have it sort of just mix in and just add the flavor without the texture So I'm going to saute these for about, you know, five minutes, maybe seven minutes or so Here's the tofu out of the oven took about 35 minutes And you can see the little bits these little bits are a little chewy They're a little bit crispy and the bigger pieces are softer. This is what you're looking for right here So now all we have to do is finish what we have here in our pot with our mushrooms. So I'm gonna add some black beans I think I told you that earlier in the video. This is some fire roasted tomatoes Now you could sub out with this some salsa, maybe your favorite salsa that would work Here's some corn Organic corn I'm using here and I'm going to stir that up. We want to just heat this through And then I'm going to toss in the tofu Then we're just going to combine everything so all the flavors can get acquainted and the tofu can absorb it And this is our filling our main filling for our tacos While our tofu mixture is heating up on the stove. We have time for chef joke number two All right, here we go. What deadly martial arts are soybeans trained in? tofu Now let's put some tacos together. All right. I'm using corn tortillas. You can use flour tortillas You can use siete has a brand of tortillas that are Really good. So I would recommend that as well. Whatever you want to use. It's very customizable All right, what I like to do is take my tortilla oven, which is what I have here and I like to use this And I put these inside and pop them in the microwave for 30 seconds. They come out tender soft and hot and they stay that way for probably a half an hour Great for parties and things like that the other alternative is you could place these in a frying pan Just as simple as that on the stove Flip them over a couple times till they're hot and they're soft and you're good to go All right, we got our nice hot. Ooh hot tortillas here. I don't know if you can see them steaming, but they are Put them into my taco holder here. I have links to the taco holders If you want to check it out, maybe you want to get some yourself if you make a lot of tacos They're wonderful. They hold things in place I have a link for you in my description below the video. So check it out All right, so here's our tofu mixture with the black beans and the corn and the tomato everything it's just amazing and the texture on these is Delicious now all that we have left to add here is our homemade guacamole, which is always fantastic and I'm using I believe it's called miocos plant-based Cheddar cheese to keep this vegan You can use regular cheese if you want. It's very flexible like I said But this stuff tastes pretty darn amazing If you love taco Tuesday and you'd like to find some more taco recipes to enjoy on those days Well, I've got a link for you. Click that right over there. That's my playlist to all my taco recipes Check it out. Try some out and let me know what you think Thank you so much for watching today. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel Hit the notification bell and if you really enjoyed the video hit the like button for me. All right. We'll see you next week