Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vegan general tso’s tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This General Tso's tofu is savory, sweet, spicy and so delicious it will likely go straight onto your regular dinner rotation. It's also pretty quick to make and super high in protein. So basically, you are going to love it!
Vegan General Tso’s Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Vegan General Tso’s Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan general tso’s tofu using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan General Tso’s Tofu:
- Prepare 1 block tofu (medium)
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/4 tsp pepper
- Prepare For the sauce
- Get 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Get 3 tablespoon apple vinegar
- Take 2 tablespoon raw sugar (I just used white sugar)
- Make ready 1-3 tablespoon sambal (just to your liking) * very spicy *
- Get 1/3 cup vegetable stock
- Get 1 tsp cornstarch
- Take 1 tablespoon chili sauce (loa gan ma)
- Take 3-5 dry thai chilies or 1 tablespoon of red pepper flakes
- Get 1 tablespoon minced garlic
First you'll prepare the tofu and sauce and let them marinate (separately) in the fridge. Home Healthy Recipes Vegan General Tso's Tofu Recipe & Video. So I'm so so happy to bring you another healthy, easy & vegan dish to you! You know the best part of this recipe?
Instructions to make Vegan General Tso’s Tofu:
- Drain water from tofu, wrap in paper towels to soak up the water, put something on top of it to hold it down, it will soak the the moisture faster that way, set aside.
- Start making the sauce
- In a small bowl, add soy sauce, vinegar, samba,sugar,cornstarch,vegetable stock, mix, set aside.
- Back to tofu, unwrap, and cut. Cut in the middle, then flip the two pieces on to is sides and cut them again, then cut into rectangles.(after I had it cut 4 times I put 2 on top of each and cut in rectangles as you see in the last picture)
- Salt and pepper tofu add to air fryer on 390 for 15 mins, half way shake them well… (can do in oven on 360 on wire rack till golden brown)
- Done.
- Notes-Make sauce, don’t heat pan up before adding anything. Turn heat on after the sweet chili sauce, peppers flakes, and garlic are in the pan.
- Make sauce right before tofu is done. On med heat, in frying pan, add chili sauce, garlic, and dry Thai chilies,cook for about a min while stirring, then add the vegetable stock mixture (Stir the vegetable stock mixture before adding,) this will bubble up and become thicker stir constantly, add the tofu, mix and make sure all tofu is coated with sauce. Remove from heat.
- Sever over rice and any steamed vegetables.
- Notes- this is the kinda of tofu I used, I never cooked with it before, I did go though two rounds, soaking up the water, as you can see my towels was too wet, and I just did it again. I did have cheap paper towels too. I used a plate and a can to add some weight, that work out great. It did take a little longer in my air fryer, because my tofu still had moisture in it.
- This was my first time cooking tofu and using some of these sauces that was hard to find I ended up finding stuff at Kroger’s,Walmart didn’t have any of it! I didnt have the peppers I couldn’t find them so I used red pepper flakes.
The tofu is crispy and flavorful, the sauce is not too sweet and not too spicy, just thick and rich, the way I remember it. Even though I've eaten General Tso's Tofu before and loved it, I've never tried to make it at home. Which is pretty surprising given the number of times I eat tofu per week. If you love sticky, sweet, spicy food then you'll enjoy this recipe for Vegan General Tso's Tofu from the Chloe Flavor cookbook. Bake the tofu or pan fry, add blanched veggies and make a sandwich or wrap.
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