Tofu Alongside Hot & Sour Rhubarb Sauce

December 15, 2017

We had leftover rhubarb from Cindy's birthday cake too Cindy had the perfect recipe to role it upward in. Aside from the marinating time, this all comes together actually quickly, hence if you lot tin excogitation a one-half solar daytime ahead this is an slow too delicious schoolhouse nighttime meal. Even if you're non that organised, a pre-marinated tofu would in all probability produce the trick. The sauce is the existent star, amongst a non bad mix of flavours from the ginger, chilli too especially rhubarb - it provides a sweetness, but of a specially tangy kind. 

We actually loved this dish - it's reasonably healthy, packs a big flavor punch too kept us going for a few meals of leftovers. We don't purchase rhubarb besides often, but I intend we're going to start.

Tofu amongst hot & sour rhubarb sauce

(adapted slightly from Mostly Eating, who adapted a Jamie Oliver recipe)

marinated tofu

1 tablespoon golden syrup (or agave/maple syrup)

1 teaspoon Chinese 5 spice

1/4 teaspoon chilli flakes

1 tablespoon rice wine

1 tablespoon peanut oil

500g tofu, sliced into 1 inch strips

sauce

4-5 sticks of rhubarb, trimmed too roughly chopped

two tablespoons soil ginger

1 blood-red chilli

iii cloves garlic

iii tablespoons golden syrup

iii tablespoons tamari

toppings

1 lime, quartered

1 chilli, seeded too finely sliced

two tablespoons roasted cashews

small-scale bunch fresh coriander

veggie crude oil for frying

rice

broccoli (or other greenish veggie), chopped

Mix all the marinade ingredients together too allow the tofu soak it all upward for a brace of hours (turning in 1 lawsuit if you lot tin hold out bothered)

Combine all the sauce ingredients inwards a nutrient processor too blend it all upward until you've got a smoothen sauce - it'll stimulate got a practiced 30-60 seconds of whizzing.

Pop the sauce into a saucepan too convey to a depression simmer, for but about xx minutes (it tin basically hold out left piece you lot produce the rest).

Heat the veggie crude oil inwards a frying pan or wok too throw inwards the tofu too marinade, cooking the marinade off too hence getting a chip of a golden border on the tofu. Throw inwards the broccoli too stir-fry for a brace of minutes, until it but starts to soften. 

Serve it all upward - a layer of rice, some tofu too broccoli on top, generous dollops of sauce too hence a scattering of the toppings too a squelch of lime.