Sweet Soy Brussels Sprouts & Tofu

March 30, 2018

Easter brought amongst it to a greater extent than or less other coming together of our regular Ottolenghi club. It was typically indulgent, amongst a baked bluish cheesecake, pea together with mint croquettes, lentil together with asparagus salad together with a fancy tart that Cindy volition shipping service near shortly (photos of the whole shindig are on our facebook page). My contribution was this weird-sounding recipe from Plenty. It's rare that I'll conduct maintain on a dish that doesn't conduct maintain a photograph inwards a cookbook, but this seemed similar a rare uncomplicated dish from ol' Yotam together with thus I decided to give it a shot. 

Sweet chilli sauce is non the form of cistron I imagine Ottolenghi reaching for rattling often, but it industrial plant nicely inwards this dish amongst the soy together with sesame crude oil flavours. The existent stars are the sprouts though - you've actually gotta larn them to caramelise for the amount effect. The tofu together with shitakes added to a greater extent than or less squeamish diverseness and, despite the rather brownish visual aspect, this got the Ottolenghi-club tick of approval.

Sweet soy Brussels sprouts & tofu

(from Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

ii tablespoons sweetness chilli sauce

1.5 tablespoons tamari

iii tablespoons sesame oil

1 teaspoon rice vinegar

1 tablespoon maple syrup

3/4 loving cup sunflower oil

150g theatre tofu

500g Brussels sprouts

Small bunch jump onions, sliced

1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes

100g shitake mushrooms, quartered

15g coriander leaves

sesame seeds (to garnish)

salt

Slice the tofu into apartment squares, near 4cm wide. Mix together the sweetness chilli sauce, tamari, ii tablespoons of the sesame oil, rice vinegar together with maple syrup inwards a apartment container together with marinate your squares for an hr or so, flipping them over halfway through.

Trim the bases off the sprouts together with cutting them inwards thirds longways together with thus you lot larn relatively apartment pieces.

Heat iv tablespoons of the sunflower crude oil inwards a frying pan over high heat. Throw inwards one-half the sprouts together with a few shakes of tabular array salt together with fix on high for a few minutes. You desire to larn them squeamish together with charred - almost to the signal of burning them - together with thus don't stir also much. Repeat amongst the other one-half of the sprouts together with laid them aside inwards a bowl.

Add to a greater extent than or less other brace of tablespoons of sunflower crude oil to the pan together with stir nipper the jump onions, mushrooms together with chilli flakes for a few minutes. Pop them inwards amongst the sprouts 1 time you're done.

Now nipper the tofu squares - popular them apartment inwards the pan for a brace of minutes on each side, until they're nicely caramelised (you mightiness ask to create a brace of batches together with last yesteryear upwardly the oil).

Once the tofu is cooked, kill the oestrus together with stir the sprouts, mushrooms etc inwards amongst all the tofu.. Pour inwards the leftover marinade together with stir through one-half the coriander leaves together with remaining sesame oil.

Serve warm, garnished amongst the remainder of the coriander together with the sesame seeds.