Soy Simplified

Soy stuff can be sticky.

First there’s the soyapower machine.  It came with a package of magic cleaning powder that instructs one to mix a container of the stuff to reuse–who has room on a counter?  The idea is appealing in that it sounds like a way to ease cleanup unless one is opposed to leaving soaking parts laying about the kitchen.  So, instead, we have stuck with vigilant immediate cleanup and as we do it the process seems to become less of a chore. 

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This bit of experimentation was such a success I’ve come to post the recipe immediately!

Alice’s Rich Okara Peanut Butter Brownie

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix:

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I mentioned before the fact that okara is, the truth of making soy-milk, the ever-present reality…the more soymilk you make the more okara you have; the okara becomes a task requiring prompt attention.  Granola has been a repeating theme, I will reiterate, it’s the single-most, easiest, most enthusiastically received use that I’ve come up with so far.  You don’t even have to press the okara, just use it straight out of the soy-milk machine.

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It was a good idea, honestly! What better way to use okara than to lean on the popular uses I’d read about? The problem came in when I tried to apply what I’d read in an ill-conceived fashion. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t horrible it just ranked among those meals people refer to as weird hippie food if ya know what I mean. And the thing is, the meal wasn’t nutritionally a powerhouse, we had multiple fried dishes and it was really supposed to appeal to the junk food lover. Ah well.

The menu as planned consisted of the following: junk food tofu, croquettes, a stir fry with okara, shrimp egg foo yung (for familiarity and to appease those who might ask, “where’s the meat?”) and rice.

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I purchased a SoyaPower soymilk maker and set about making some soy milk which the family pretty much guzzled. Two recipes and two more then we had a jug in the fridge and a heap of okara in the fridge too. The next day I made 4 more batches of milk to make into tofu so you can imagine, the okara was beginning to pile up.

Now I have to talk a sec about my family, I have one milk avoider (excited about the machine and its potential), one who tasted the soymilk and decided it was great, another who drank some didn’t hate it or love it, one who looked at it with concern and tried it determined to dislike it and…the husband who has, to date, disliked all things soy except maybe the rare tofu fried up and sizzled with soy sauce and nutritional yeast. Oh and me, I like soy foods and think adding a little soy to our diet is a good way to improve it not to mention the cost effectiveness of the addition.

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