Crispy Baked Tofu Salad Recipe with Lemon Poppy Dressing (Vegan)
This vegan crispy baked tofu recipe is brought to you in partnership with my friends at GT’s Living Foods and COCOYO Living Coconut Yogurt . As always opinions are 100 percent my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that make this site and my gluten-free salad cravings possible! Let me tell you quickly about one of my all-time favorite fast casual salads. It hails from Cowgirl CafĂ© in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan where I lived until the age of 2. Needless to say, I don’t think I ate said salad during my youth (I remembered the place mostly because of the rock candy). But when I graduated college, my first job was around the corner and 90% of the office would order the chopped chicken salad every day for lunch. There was nothing particularly exceptional about the ingredients except for the lemon poppy dressing, which was sweet, creamy, and often something I would lick from the delivery container with my fingers, much to the horror of my coworkers. Like ma...