I’ve been seeing a lot of #meatlessmondays on Instagram lately and for while there, I’ve been ignoring the whole trend since we love meat! It’s not like we regularly have meat on meat (okay, okay on occasion we’ll add bacon on our hamburgers), but we usually have meat or fish for two of our meals in a day. So this Monday, we finally decided to jump on the bandwagon and came up with – Tofu Spinach Salad with Asian Sesame Dressing!
We marinated the tofu for a couple of hours before grilling it and that really added some zing to the tofu (truthfully, we had to do this because the marination process helps us to pretend it’s grilled chicken instead). And to the tofu you add spinach, pea shoots, some matchsticks carrots, mandarin oranges for some sweetness and some edamame for extra protein and you’ve got yourself a bowl that makes your body happy after a weekend of indulgence! Below is the recipe for you to try. Almost forgot to tell you – the dressing is pretty fantastic too!
- For the tofu:
- 350 grams of hard tofu
- 1 garlic, chopped
- 2 tablespoons of hoisin sauce
- 2 tablespoons of sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon of sriracha, optional
- For the salad:
- 4 cups of baby spinach
- 1 carrot, julienned
- a handful of peasprouts
- 1 cup of edamame
- 2-3 mandarin oranges
- sesame seeds
- For the dressing:
- ⅛ cup of rice wine vinegar
- 1 shallot, quartered
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- ⅛ teaspoon of black pepper
- 2 teaspoons of peanut butter (or almond butter or tahini)
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- ¼ cup of sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons of maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
- In a glass container or ziploc bag, marinate the tofu for a couple of hours.
- Grill the tofu and cut it up in bite size pieces
- In a large bowl, add all your salad ingredients and set aside.
- In a blender, add all your dressing ingredients and puree until smooth.
- Serve the salad with dressing on the side.
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This looks great! Sesame dressing is my favorite 🙂
Nice! Glad to hear you like sesame dressing also!
Hello Sasha! The dressing was quite good! I had to thin mine out the next day and just added a little olive oil but it was still fantastic!
I love this salad – it looks amazing and totally my kind of salad! Love the grilled tofu and dressing!
Glad to hear you like it Kelly!
hello again kelly! the tofu really took on the flavours of the marinade and the dressing was real good! thanks for stopping by 🙂
Oh my god… I’m drooling over this. It sounds utterly delicious!
haha! Thanks a lot!
hi kimmy! let us know if you get to try it! this salad did convince us to go meatless more often!
Hmmm, I don’t cook with tofu nearly enough. This looks so delicious… perfect for spring!
We don’t use tofu too much ourselves! We happen to like this salad though!
We love meat, too, but we often eat meatless because, well, it’s good! Like this dish — perfect for us. Super recipe — thanks.
You are welcome! Glad you can manage without meat on occasion! 😉
I’m chuckling, because we are very meat heavy as well. this salad looks amazing though, definitely putting it on the list to try.
Great! Thanks Laura!
Yummy! I’ve only cooked with tofu a few times but this salad sounds great 🙂 I bet the sesame oil in the dressing tastes amazing!!
Both the salad and dressing turned out real good! Thanks Heather!
This looks like an AWESOME salad! And one that’s actually healthy, too 🙂 I definitely don’t eat edamame enough!
Glad to hear you like it! Thanks!
What a healthy looking salad! I’m not a fan of tofu but you’ve pretty much sold it to me with this. The dressing sounds delicious!
Thanks Helen!
Nice salad…I should be more creative with my dressings. 🙂 ela
Thanks Ela! Glad to hear you like the dressing also!
The dressing is something I know I would enjoy 🙂
Perfect! Thanks Tandy!