#realizing that nothing stops me from boiling pasta in the pan is life-changing tbh

[lowspoonstuff]

Tofu pasta

Cheapness: 5/5 Effort: 3/5 Tastiness: 3/5 Tools: pan. bonus: bowl, pot, something to marinade tofu in. Minimum: - pasta - tofu - Soy sauce (or oyster sauce or fish sauce, smth like that. a sweet and sour/spicy sauce is also ok i think) - some spices (anything you got honestly) Optionals: (+taste, but +effort) Medium: + tomatoes + milk + cheese + oil Hard: + A Green + Lemon juice + Garlic Instructions (short and bare minimum): 1. Boil the pasta 2. Fry the tofu. Add spices and the sauce on both sides. 3. Put the tofu on the pasta. Instructions (with details and options): 0. (extra) If you want, marinade the tofu in soy sauce, lemon juice, garlic, spices. Cut the tofu in pieces, cut it partially, or don't cut at all - whatever feels doable 1. Boil pasta in the pot or the pan. 1. 5 Medium: remove the pasta, turn the heat up, cut tomatoes, throw them in. Throw in some spices (no salt, you'll get that w/ the tofu stuff!) + any of the optionals: A Green, lemon juice, garlic. Wait a bit. Throw in the milk, the cheese, and the pasta. Swirl around until all the milk-cheese-tomato juice isn't just sloshing around in the pan and turned into sauce. 2. Remove everything and add oil into the pan if you need. If you're not sure, then you need it. Drop in some soy sauce if you haven't marinated the tofu. Wait a bit, so the pan heats up. Plomp the tofu in and cover in spices, just go ham on it. Wait again, until the tofu is for sure cooked on the bottom. Turn it around and wait again. 3. Plomp the tofu on the pasta. Done! I'm also thinking you could probably cook some mushrooms with the tofu, or throw in more veggies, but i think that's a bit out of low spoon territory.

I'm very thankful btw that I know a place to buy, like, 2 pounds worth of tofu at once very cheaply, so I can freeze some, marinade some, and then boom - protein for days. It's truly amazing, since i cannot handle raw meat.