Salt and Pepper Tofu

This is my attempt to copycat the Salt and Pepper Tofu snack from T4, one of my daughter's favorite bubble tea places. People commonly use egg to coat the Tofu pieces. I used buttermilk instead because of egg allergy. 

Ingredients

Firm Tofu - 1 pack

Milk - 1 cup

Fresh lemon juice - 1 TBSP

Panko bread crumb - 1/2 cup

Corn flour or all purpose flour - 1/4 cup

Salt - 1/2 TBSP or to taste

Pepper - 1/2 TBSP or to taste

Steps

1. Add lemon juice to milk and let it sit for 10+ minutes to become buttermilk.

2. Cut Tofu into small (about 1 inch) cubes, and soak in the buttermilk.

3. Mix the bread crumb, flour, salt and pepper in another bowl. 

4. Using medium low heat, heat up a frying pan with 1/2 inch deep or more oil. Roll each tofu cube in the flour mixture, and then deep fry in the oil until all sides are golden brown. Serve hot. 

If you run out of Panko bread crumb, you can replace with flour and corn flour mixture(2:1). The resulting Tofu will not be as crispy on the outside.