How to get CHO self to the store

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A day after we returned home from Nor Cal, this huge box arrived from Chobani!  CHO ho ho!  It’s like a never ending holiday season. 🙂

It was kinda the divine intervention needed to get my butt in gear, since we were still in the planning stages of weekly meals (aka we hadn’t yet been to the grocery store after a week out of town).

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Truth be told, I was not in the mood to cook or to go shopping for food or to plan out the weekly menu, but the fridge was in a dire state.  I did a really really good job of finishing off every single perishable item before we headed up to the Bay Area, so the meal options were either PB&J (minus the bread) or grains with soy sauce.  Neither are exactly appetite stimulating. 

We had a baby doctor appointment mid-day, but still avoided the grocery store.  Later in the afternoon we swung by Vons to pick up toilet paper, but still avoided the grocery store.  [Sensing a theme here?]

And then that Chobani package came…and I decided that dinner was going to be something with greek yogurt…and off to the store we went!

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Breaded Dijon Tofu

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 block of extra firm tofu (7 oz.), drained and pressed
  • 1/3 cup plain greek yogurt (I used the 0% Chobani)
  • 2 tbsp stone ground mustard
  • 1 tbsp honey mustard
  • 1/2 cup bread crumbs (I used panko)
  • 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • salt & pepper

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.

Press the tofu until there’s no more liquid coming out.  Slice into four slabs ~1 cm thick. 

In a small bowl combine greek yogurt & mustards.  In a separate bowl combine bread crumbs, nutritional yeast, and salt & pepper. 

One by one, dip each piece of tofu into the dijon sauce, covering it entirely, then place it in the bread crumb mixture, until it’s entirely coated.

Place on a baking sheet that’s either lined with parchment paper or sprayed with non-stick.

Bake for 20 – 25 minutes (until breading is crispy and browned).

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Oven ready above; after being baked below. 

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I served the tofu alongside peas and brown rice. 

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Is it just me or does the plate look like a TV dinner?  Maybe I’ve been watching too many episodes of Mad Men…next thing you know I’ll be serving up fish sticks. 

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Yum!

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Comments (21)

  1. lindsay

    ahhh, i love it! Chobani is too good not to want to use ASAP! and love the chicken recipe.

  2. Cecilia

    So jealous! I am a big Cho fan! Been looking for the 2% plain and can never find it. Enjoy! A box full of Chobani is one of my fave things ever.

  3. Katie @ Peace Love & Oats

    I got the big Chobani package too, but I’ve yet to make anything, I need to get on that!

  4. Abby

    No judgement whatsoever, but I didn’t know you ate dairy! Is this a thing for pregnancy or have you decided to start adding it back into your diet? Again, I think everyone should do what’s best for them, so no judgement 😉

  5. Nadiya @ Milk and Honey on the Run

    Aww I love chobani! The first time I’ve had it I was super sick with very swollen lymph nodes that made it painful to swallow. Chobani was one of those few things I could actually eat 😀 Never tried it on tofu though ^^

  6. Elise (Post author)

    i know youre never judging me abby 🙂
    the thing about greek yogurt is i have to be in the mood. for some reason i tolerate it without issues, as opposed to the rest of dairy. i go through phases. often its a preferable thing for me to eat cereal or granola with (as opposed to almond milk) because oddly enough almond milk and cereal makes me feel full forever and gives me GERD. i think it has to do with all that liquid sloshing around or something. i dont know. kyle says he has the same thing. so weird. i love cereal but if i eat it in the morning with milk, i cant go on a run for HOURS and HOURS due to the reflux thing.
    whoa tangent. ok, so even though my posts w greek yogurt are sporadic, they have pretty much always been around.
    oh and ps, heres a blurbs i wrote about it on my fodmaps site:
    http://fodmapsdiet.com/2012/11/12/my-definition-of-low/

  7. Clare @ Fitting It All In

    YUM!!! I may try this with chicken too for my family. Think I could trick my dad into eating greek yogurt and nooch?

  8. Abby

    I wasn’t even thinking about the Fodmaps thing, more the vegan thing, but I totally get where you’re coming from. I also remember seeing Greek yogurt on here occasionally, but that other dairy was usually passed off to Kyle. I was kind of the same way before. Cheese? Meh. But plain Greek yogurt was always a staple. Thanks for not making me feel like a weirdo for bringing it up. Never any judgment, I swear!

  9. Elise (Post author)

    totally. dare you. 🙂

  10. Melissa

    How did you get a HUGE box of Chobani delivered?!?!

  11. Kate

    This looks amazing. I love the idea of breading tofu – might actually get the husband to eat it!

  12. Ttrockwood

    Whoah. That is a lot of Cho!
    Can you freeze it?
    I once had tofu “fishsticks” that had a seaweed and crumb coating- they were good! But it has been years since i had fish so take my input with a grain of salt.

  13. Elise (Post author)

    thats a clever idea! maybe ill give it a shot.
    the chobani does freeze and the cultures simply go dormant. then upon thawing they become active again. pretty cool. i think the texture may change a bit, but i havent tried it before. i froze half of them so ill let you know.

  14. Elise (Post author)

    it was a christmas present 🙂 they arrived with freezer pouches and were totally cold.

  15. Melissa

    I looked at the Chobani website and it didn’t look like you could buy it directly from there. Do you know what website your Santa ordered it from?

  16. elaine c.

    you know, i have read this title about 5 times now and i JUST got it 🙂

  17. Beth

    Again, that’s a whole lot of peas on that plate. They are suppose to be limited, aren’t they?

  18. Elise (Post author)

    please read my post about my definition of low here: http://fodmapsdiet.com/2012/11/12/my-definition-of-low/

    the fodmaps diet is a very individual diet that you need to sort out. i cannot tell you what amounts you will tolerate.

  19. Elise (Post author)

    i got it from the company directly.

  20. Elise (Post author)

    ha! i definitely dont blame you for missing my really lame cheesy pun. 😛

  21. Amy

    Looks great, Elise! We’ve gotta say, never tried it on tofu but that’s going to change ASAP. Hope you had a wonderful holiday season.

    Amy
    @Chobani

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