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Recipe: Vegan Black Pepper Tofu

name: Vegan Black Pepper Tofu
source: https://feedod.net/vegan-black-pepper-tofu/
author: Arsalan Haq
type: main

Ingredients

  • 400 gram extra firm tofu - pressed
  • 2 tablespoon tamari sauce - or soy sauce
  • corn starch - or cornstarch
  • 4 tablespoon vegetable oil - or any neutral cooking oil
  • 4 scallions - spring onions
  • red chili flakes - or chilli pepper
  • 5 teaspoon ginger - minced
  • 4 garlic - cloves
  • 3 teaspoon corn starch
  • black pepper
  • 2 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 5 teaspoon rice vinegar
  • 4 tablespoon soy sauce (dark)

Instructions

1 Slice the tofu into identical squares.
2 Pour the required quantity of soy sauce or the tamari over the tofu and stir them properly.
3 Take a bowl and add the cornflour to it. Dust the tofu with a thin layer of it.
4 Take a pan and add 3 tbsp of cooking oil to it.
5 Warm the oil, and fry the tofu in it. Stir it between and make sure that the tofu is not burning.
6 Fry the tofu until golden brown, terminate it from the oil, and put it onto the paper towel to empty the leftover oil.
7 You can also bake it in the oven by putting it into the baking tray at a temperature of 360 degrees. bake it for almost half an hour.
8 Take another bowl, and mix the tamari, vinegar, maple syrup, and water.
9 Take another bowl, and make a cornflower slurry by mixing cornflower into water. It will help to thicken the sauce.
10 Grab a clean pan and add some cooking oil to it, add the white part of the green onion and the crushed chili into it.
11 Fry them gently until the onion becomes tender.
12 Add the chopped ginger and garlic and cook them for a few minutes. Stir them in between. (Do not burn).
13 Add the slurry into the pan boil it and then mix everything.
14 Put the pepper over it as per your taste.
15 You can serve it now.