Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vegan general tso’s tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
How to make General Tso's Tofu. The best way to do this is to use a tofu press. But if you don't have a tofu press no worries at all, just place your tofu on a plate with another plate on top of it and then place something heavy on top of that (like a heavy pot).
Vegan General Tso’s Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Vegan General Tso’s Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have vegan general tso’s tofu using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan General Tso’s Tofu:
- Prepare 1 block tofu (medium)
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/4 tsp pepper
- Take For the sauce
- Take 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Take 3 tablespoon apple vinegar
- Take 2 tablespoon raw sugar (I just used white sugar)
- Prepare 1-3 tablespoon sambal (just to your liking) * very spicy *
- Take 1/3 cup vegetable stock
- Prepare 1 tsp cornstarch
- Prepare 1 tablespoon chili sauce (loa gan ma)
- Get 3-5 dry thai chilies or 1 tablespoon of red pepper flakes
- Take 1 tablespoon minced garlic
To make this vegan General Tso tofu recip, you'll need a little over an hour. First you'll prepare the tofu and sauce and let them marinate (separately) in the fridge. Then cut the tofu into bite size pieces. You don't want any big bursts of garlic taste when you eat.
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.
This General Tso's tofu recipe is the response to the request of my readers who want more vegetarian dishes. It is a pan-fry tofu dish coated with the same sauce for General Tso's chicken. The tofu soaks up the flavor like a sponge and makes it exceptionally flavorful. This recipe involves a few steps. First, marinate the tofu to let it absorb the spices and soy sauce.
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