Tofu Stir Fry

Looking for a simple and delicious meatless dish? Try our Tofu Stir Fry Recipe! This dish is packed with flavorful tofu, crisp vegetables, and a savory stir-fry sauce. Quick and easy to prepare, this recipe is perfect for a busy weeknight meal or a weekend dinner. Enjoy a healthy and satisfying meal!

Soybeans are the members of the pea family, they are leading legume crop around the world: and are also one of the most nutritious and versatile plant foods. Soybeans contain more protein than beef, more calcium than milk, more lecithin than eggs, and more iron than beef. Tofu is a cheese like curd made by pressing of soaked and ground soybeans and it is a staple of Asian Cuisine.

This recipe is my daughter’s Madzia specialty. She has introduced me to this nutrient dense and yet quick and easy to cook entrée.

Simple, quick and delicious

Yield: 4 large servings

Ingredients:

• 2 medium carrots, peeled and sliced

• 2 stalks celery, sliced

• 20 sugar snaps or frozen peas

• 1/2 red pepper, sliced or chopped

• 1/2 yellow pepper, sliced or chopped

• 1/2 green pepper, sliced or chopped

• 1 small onion, sliced

• 1/2 chili pepper

• 1 package extra firm organic soybean - 350 g

• 3 cremini mushrooms, sliced

• 1 cup swiss chard, kale, spinach or bok choy, chopped

• 5 large garlic cloves, ( 3 finely chopped and 2 left in its peel)

• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger. finely chopped

• potato starch or corn starch

• sunflower oil

• sesame oil

• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar for marinade

• low sodium natural soya sauce

• teriyaki sauce as needed for your taste

• chopped fresh green onion for garnish

• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds for garnish

• aged basmati rice, cooked as per instruction

Marinated tofu is coated in potato starch

Tofu and garlic are lightly browned.

Aromatized Tofu makes this dish delightful

Bouquet of vegetables of your choice

Swiss Chard is a Superfood

Instructions:

1. Cut tofu into small cubes.

2. Make a marinade for tofu: 1/4 cup finely chopped shallots, 2 finely chopped garlic cloves, 1 tablespoon fresh ginger. finely chopped 2 tablespoons soya sauce, 1 tablespoon rice vinegar and 1 tablespoon of sesame oil. Mix ingredients and saturate the tofu. Place it in the glass container. Leave it in the fridge well covered for 12 hours. Shake at least 3 times during that time so everything gets coated.

3. Next day, remove the tofu from the marinade and toss the cubes in the potato starch. Reserve the marinade for the stir fry.

4. Preheat a large skillet over medium heat with generous amount of oil. Cook tofu and 2 unpeeled garlic cloves for 10 minutes, flipping often until crisp keeping the tofu intact. Set a side.

5. Preheat a separate large pan over medium heat. Add the oil. Add the chopped onion and garlic and sauté for 2 minutes. Add all remaining vegetable ingredients and stir-fry until just tender crisp.

6. Add the cooked tofu and all the juice from the marinade, add the green onion and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add the soya sauce and teriyaki sauce as per your taste. Stir fry until the sauce comes to slight boil app. 1 minute.

7. Serve tofu stir-fry on the bed of rice topped with sesame seeds (toasting sesame seeds enhances their flavor).

Enjoy it!