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Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)

This event was on Tuesday, June 24, 2025 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:

Can you share any tips for creating scallops from tofu besides pressing the tofu?

— Toni Crawford

Answer:

You know, pressing the tofu and getting a very dense tofu is probably the best way to be able to start. Um, and I would use the marinating process like I just talked about, where I marinated the king trumpet mushrooms and like a little bit of lemon little, like it's actually a good amount of lemon tamari. Um, I think I added a little paprika to it, um, salt pepper and a little bit of water and used it as my marinade. Um, but there are a couple kinds of tofu that are very dense. I think they're called high protein tofus, where like, I mean, they're very, very dense and you could probably cut those into the size to be able to make that happen for the, uh, scallops as well too.
Dan Marek

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

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