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Tofu Mayonnaise

You can buy this in health food shops - even in some supermarkets. If you live in Central Asia however and you fancy a bit of tofu mayonnaise you have to make it yourself. I haven't really mastered this recipe yet and I'd welcome any suggestions for improving it. The mayonnaise I make never seems to be as light as the stuff from the shops and the ingredients usually separate when I mix the mayonnaise into a salad - I think this is essentially an emulsification issue - but here's the recipe anyway. The quantities given will make about 100 grams or so.

Ingredients

About 30 grams of Tofu (enough to make 2 heaped dessert spoons of creamed tofu)
I dessert spoon of lemon juice or vinegar
5 or 6 dessert spoons of oil
A pinch of mustard powder or a quarter teaspoon of prepared mustard
2 or 3 dessertspoons of water
A pinch of salt

Cream the tofu with a pestle and mortar then transfer it to a bowl for mixing. Add the lemon juice and mix it in. Add the oil gradually. One dessert spoon at a time should be okay - beat it into the mixture before adding the next lot. Beat in the water a dessertspoon at a time and add the salt at the end.

  

Note: I've since been advised that adding a little lecithin to the mix stops the ingredients separating, though I haven't tried it yet.

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