Tofu

If you’re doing Meat Free Monday, this is the perfect plant-based supper

Crispy tofu adds protein and bite to a warming broth with noodles and greens

Combine crispy tofu with Chinese 5-spice, soy and sriracha for an easy, flavour-packed stir-fry. Tofu is a particularly good source or protein as it contains all nine essential amino acids

Tofu can be bland, so it’s good to pep it up with some big, bold flavours during cooking. The sesame trio in this recipe - oil, tahini and seeds - will deliver exactly the kind of complex flavour combination you need. For an even bigger flavour punch, look out for Chinese ‘tahini’, a rich sesame paste where the seeds are darkly toasted before being ground for a deeper intensity