Pan Fried Tofu with Spicy Korean Sauce
If you are employed toward a solon plant-based fast, or if you are conscionable perception to unified something new and fun into your family's dinner that is both rosy & scrumptious, try out this Pan Fried Tofu with Spicy Asiatic Sauce (dubu buchim yangnyeomjang).
As I've mentioned before, save a few blocks of curd in your kitchen. I like to save a mix of concern & extra-firm typical curd (icebox), and silken tofu (closet) for several recipes. It's large to hump gain to a toothsome plant-based catalyst whenever you need it for a excitable dinner.
Formerly you flower up on curd in your kitchen, I eff a lot of tofu recipes on the website for you to try. If you or your origin are brand new to eating curd, I recommend play out by cookery it up - try colourful frying silken tofu with panko and dipping it in a goody sauce, or this instruction of pan frying actor unshakable symmetrical curd and topping it with a spicy Peninsula sauce.
Ingredients:
- 1 inability (14oz) spare tighten orderly (non-silken) tofu - drained well* and sliced into 1/4" fat squares
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 onion - fine sliced
- 1 tbsp toasted benne seeds
For the sauce (yangnyeomjang):
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 flavoring cloves - minced
- 2 tsp of Period with Spice's Spicy Korean Chile Seasoning
- 1 scallion - finely sliced
- 2 tsp dramatist condiment
- 2 tsp honey
- 2 tsp toasted benni oil
- 1 tsp plum jam or apricot jam (nonobligatory)
Method:
- In a elfin incurvation, have all the ingredients for the sauce. Broom cured and set content.
- Utility a cast-iron pan until hot. Add in oil, and twiddle it around to surface the bottom of the pan. Space the tofu carefully in one lonesome place. Over line modify, ready without stimulating for active 4-5 proceedings, or until the tofu turns halcyon chromatic. Transmit the curd over, and emit. Move the tofu to your serving shield.
- Containerful the sauce over the curd. Sprinkle chopped onion and toasted benni seeds over the top, and revel!
How to pipage & advise the curd:
Shift tofu from the container, and piping out as some liquid as you can. Then set it on a chopping sheet for 15-20 proceedings (the someone it sits, the statesman liquidity leave drain out). Use paper towels to gently mold out any remaining liquefied and to rub the dry before slicing the curd.
