Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Add the coconut milk, tomato sauce, broth, ground cashews and raisins. Stir until liquids are well combined. Toss in the tofu and stir.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans:
- Take 14 oz extra firm tofu (1 brick)
- Take 12 oz green beans, washed & cut in 2” pieces
- Get 1/2 cup toasted cashews (unsalted)
- Get 14 oz unsweetened coconut milk
- Get 2 ” ginger, peeled & grated
- Take 2 garlic cloves, minced
- Take 1.5 tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 2 tbsp molasses
- Get 2 tbsp dried scallions
- Take 3 tbsp oil (avoid olive oil this time)
- Prepare 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- Get to taste salt & pepper
Absolutely must drain it in order to actually soak up the good stuff, and add it in a bit earlier. - Add more liquid. More coconut milk or stock or cream, since mine resulted in very little sauce compared to the picture. - Amp up spice and flavor a bit more. Pour in the coconut milk, soy sauce and molasses. It should coat a spoon without running right off.
Steps to make Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans:
- Halve the tofu brick horizontally and place on paper towels to absorb as much water as possible. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan on high heat, until it glistens. Season the tofu on all sides with salt / pepper and fry at least 4 minutes per side, or until golden and crispy. Be careful not to move it except for flipping, to avoid it from breaking. Reserve.
- Add 1 tbsp oil to the same pan and sauté the green beans for 3-4 minutes, or until blisters appear. Place in a bowl and reserve.
- One more tbsp oil into the pan, and this time add the minced ginger and garlic. Sauté until fragrant (30 seconds, more or less). Add coconut milk, soy sauce, molasses. Turn down heat to low and reduce the sauce to half, stirring constantly, until it thickens and becomes syrupy (this will take some 12-15 minutes).
- Add cashews and cook in the sauce for 2 minutes. Cube the tofu and add to the sauce, mixing carefully to coat the cubes without breaking them.
- To serve, toss the green beans with rice wine and dried scallions. Serve the whole thing in a bowl with your favorite starch (we used steamed basmati rice). Yummers!
How To Make Cashew Tofu: To make this cashew tofu stir-fry, simply… Drain the tofu. Just whisk all of the ingredients together until combined, then set the sauce aside until you are ready to use it. Once the tofu has marinated, remove from the sauce and fry in coconut oil until crispy. Serve with the brown rice, toasted cashews, chili flakes, fresh cilantro, lime slices and extra sauce on top. For the crispy tofu: Cut the tofu in cubes.
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