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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, January 09, 2024 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.

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Question:

The Chocolate Avocado Mousse recipe calls for 4 very ripe avocados. It also states we can interchange the avocados with silken tofu but doesn't say how much tofu. I assume 1 block. Any idea how much?

— Jody Criman

Answer:

I mean four avocados is kind of a lot for that, which is great. I've made this recipe thousands of times, um, in former jobs and stuff like that. Um, and the avocado's great for that. If you wanna do so. Silicon tofu, that's wonderful about one block might be a little shy to tell you the truth. Um, but two blocks might be too much. So I would say about a block and a half to tell you the truth. Um, truth now with the, you know, if you're using dates in it, um, you know, and you're um, I don't know if you're using just dates or doing the cacao into it, uh, but that's a wonderful rich to be or a way to be able to kind of blend that in. Um, you know, the less dates you have in it and the more cacao, the more dark kind of, you know, um, dark chocolate flavor you'll get from that as well too. So, um, you know, if, if you'd use the start with the one block, see how it goes for you. If it's too kind of bitter, it's not getting quite the exact, um, not getting the exact texture or, um, flavor you want, uh, add a little bit more and it's not the texture 'cause the texture will be fine, it's just the flavor will be a little, might be a little too pungent and if it is, just add a little bit more of the silk and tofu into it. But you can just start with a one block. But I would have a second one on hand just in case because, um, you know, four avocados, if you kind of equal it out in ratio, like if what the size would be, you could use small avocados or large avocados, right? So the recipe is a little on the edge there, so I would probably just start with the one and add it maybe in quarter of a block tofu, um, to be able to see how it works for you afterward.
Dan Marek

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

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