Black Pepper Tofu

November 12, 2011

Carla together with K veganised it together with offered their thoughts - the most of import 1 existence that the master copy recipe uses to a greater extent than pepper than anyone tin stand!

The master copy element listing is sure packed amongst pungency: v tablespoons of dark pepper, viii chillies, 12 shallots, 12 cloves of garlic together with sixteen leap onions. Admittedly nosotros cutting a few quantities down, but most of the subduing together with sweetening is performed yesteryear a long, gentle modest inwards lots of butter. Our tofu was deeply savoury, amongst a rut degree I could happily handle.

Ottolenghi's recipes are rarely curt or simple, together with the other notable procedure hither is shallow-frying cornflour-coated tofu cubes. They railroad train a prissy golden crust, all the ameliorate for the sauce to cling to. That said, I'd also survive tempted to endeavour apace stir-frying the tofu sans cornflour.

The dark pepper tofu was loved yesteryear all who ate it. We served a fancy Ottolenghi salad on the side but it was completely upstaged. This dish needs cypher to a greater extent than than steamed greens together with rice to back upwards it.

Black pepper tofu
(adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty,
recipe available online)

1/2 loving cup vegetable oil, for frying
1kg describe solid tofu
1/3 loving cup cornflour
120g butter
12 shallots, thinly sliced
six mild ruby-red chillis, thinly sliced
12 cloves garlic, minced
iii tablespoons ginger, minced
v tablespoons kecap manis
v tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons castor sugar
iii tablespoons coarsely solid soil dark pepper
viii leap onions, cutting into 3cm segments

Pour fossil oil into a frypan until it's 5mm deep together with convey it to medium-high heat. Chop the tofu into 2cm cubes, tossing each cube inwards cornflour together with placing it inwards the hot oil. Cook the tofu cubes for a infinitesimal or 2 summit together with bottom, until lightly browned, together with thus transfer them to absorbent paper. It took me almost four batches to modest all the tofu.

Remove all the fossil oil from the pan together with construct clean whatever sediment from the bottom. Return the pan to low-medium rut together with melt the butter inwards it. Add the shallots, chilli, garlic together with ginger, sautéing gently until rattling soft, almost xv minutes. Add the kecap manis, soy sauce, saccharide together with pepper, combining everything thoroughly.

Add the tofu dorsum into the frypan, stirring it through to coat it inwards the sauce. Stir inwards the leap onions, together with thus serve it all amongst steamed greens together with rice.