For the winter months, I definitely like some hot food in me. So I’ve gone back to making one of my favorite dishes: tofu scramble. This is such a simple dish that provides you with essential nutrients and is delicious. It’s clear that I like things to be easy and hassle-free, so of course my tofu scramble is just that. Tofu is an excellent source of easily digestible protein, and is, thankfully, very easy to cook with. The recipe also calls for spinach, a lovely little vegetable with a wealth of benefits, including iron, flavonoids (cancer fighting phytonutrients), vitamin K (bone health), vitamin A (skin and immunity) and various other awesome attributes. It is argued by many nutritionists and other people who study food stuff (very legitimate, clearly) that spinach is most nutritionally valuable when it is lightly steamed. Thus, in my recipe, it is one of the last ingredients added, just to steam it lightly as it is mixed into the scramble. This whole recipe takes about 15-20 minutes, 10 if you are quick and have pre-chopped onions, and serves 1 person a delicious steamy scramble – easily doubled or tripled as you see fit. The greatest thing about this recipe is that you can easily swap out ingredients for veggies and meats/faux-meats that you prefer. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think!

Easy Tasty Tofu Scramble

  • 1/4 white onion, diced
  • 1 tablespoon veggie oil
  • 1/4 block of firm tofu, drained and then mashed/crumbled with a fork
  • your faux-meat of choice – I used tempeh bacon, 2 slices, cooked up in a pan with a little oil until crispy on the edges, then chopped into little pieces
  • 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast – optional, but adds yellow coloring, more flavor, and B vitamins – easily found at health food stores
  • handful of spinach, torn or chopped
  • other veggies of your choice: diced tomatoes, corn, chopped broccoli, bell pepper, etc.
  • salt and pepper
  1. Saute and lightly brown chopped onion in a frying pan with oil
  2. Add your fake (or real, as you pleas) meat to the browned onions, heat
  3. Any other veggies you’d like to add – this is the time to add
  4. Add tofu to the pan, heat as you mix with the onions and meat.
  5. Stir in nutritional yeast, salt and pepper – to flavor
  6. Add spinach in, gently mix into the scramble until it just begins to wilt and looks bright green. Don’t let it stay too long! You may add a dash of water to the scramble if it looks a little dry, just to help steam the spinach

And that’s it! Plate and serve. So easy, so yummy. Serve as is, or with some hot sauce or ketchup. Nutritionally balanced, hot breakfast to get your day started right!