Simple Tofu recipe

March 29, 2009

It's sometimes a problem what to do with tofu to make it tasty or even edible.

Here's the basic recipe I use, it doesn't involve any marinating and can be

varied by adding ingredients or even leaving some out...

1 500g block of tofu

cooking oil

1 small onion

a few cloves of garlic

small amount of chopped spring onion and chopped celery

a few mushrooms

2 medium sized tomatoes

1 teaspoonful sambal oelek (crushed Spanish peppers)

1 teaspoonful turmeric powder

1 vegetable stock cube

2 teaspoonfuls ketjap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)

Wash the tofu and cut it into medium size slices. Heat the oil then fry the

slices on both sides in the oil until slightly brown but not hard. Remove the

tofu, then fry the onions and garlic, followed by the spring onion, celery,

tomatoes and mushrooms, later the sambal and turmeric. Stir well whilst frying.

Meanwhile chop the fried tofu into cubes and prepare vegetable stock with

minimum amount of boiling water. Add the vegetable stock and return the tofu to

the mixture, add the ketjap manis and continue to cook for 10 mins. Serve with

basmati or similar rice. Serves 2-4 persons.

An interesting variant is to stir fry some green vegetables e.g. paksoi (bok

choy) with the mixture.

Piers

March 29, 2009

Lovely, Piers. And I see Marie is back and has filed your recipe already

Thanks - I'll be trying it this way soon.

Best, Pat

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