Vegetable Stir Fry with Tofu

I never really thought I'd be a fan of tofu, but after exploring a few different options, I can honestly say I really like it. It takes on whatever flavor you cook it with. Wegmans has great prepackaged fresh cut veggies for stir fry that we pick up when we are in a hurry or don't feel like cutting for an hour prior to dinner. We started out our stir fry with three different packages of vegetables.

 

One thing we've been doing whenever we have a recipe that needs garlic (pretty much everything) is chopping it up and soaking it in olive oil for a while before we start cooking, so it can absorb the oil. It really brings out the flavor. We also added some ginger this time, and soaked that in oil as well. 

 

The last time we made a stir fry, we cooked the tofu first with the garlic and olive oil to try and flavor it well. This time we did the same thing, but instead of extra firm tofu, we used firm, which definitely seemed to soak up the flavor better. 

 

After that was cooked for a while, we put it in a bowl and covered it, and cooked the veggies separate, minus the mushrooms, until they were cooked completely.

 

The mushrooms were cooked separate as well, and then everything was added together in the wok. It came out perfect!

We made some wild rice to go with it, even though the tofu and vegetable alone are very filling!! It was definitely one of my favorite meals so far =)