Dragon tofu with lemon rice
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Dragon tofu with lemon rice
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For a splendid vegetarian meal try Shona Sutherland's chilli-hot tofu served with fragrant, lemon-flavoured stir-fried rice
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Ingredients
For the sauce:
- 50ml vegetable oil
- 25g Garlic, finely chopped
- 5 g red chillies, crushed
- 5 g ground Coriander
- 50 ml tomato passata
- 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- Salt
- Sugar, to taste
- roasted cashew nuts, to garnish
For the lemon rice:
Method
1. Season the cubed tofu with salt, coat in the beaten egg, then dust with cornflour.2. Heat the vegetable oil for deep-frying in a wok or deep fat-fryer. Deep-fry, drain on kitchen paper and reserve.
3. To make the sauce, heat 50ml of vegetable oil in a wok. Add in the chopped garlic and fry but do not allow to brown.
4. Add the crushed chilli, coriander, tomato sauce and soy sauce and season with salt.
5. Add the fried tofu and toss together. Check the seasoning and add sugar if necessary. Garnish with fried cashew nuts.
6. Meanwhile, cook the lemon rice. Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Add in the chillies and mustard seeds.
7. Once the mustard seeds begin to crackle, add in the channa dal and fry, stirring.
8. Once the dal begins to brown, add in the lemon juice, turmeric and salt to taste.
9. Add in the peanuts, stirring until coated, and then stir in the rice, mixing well to coat evenly.
10. Fry the rice until heated through, around 5 minutes. Garnish with the coriander and curry leaves.
11. Serve the dragon tofu with the lemon rice.
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I cooked this recipe for my husband & I last night and he LOVED it! Only thing I would do differently, would be to make more of the sauce, as even though this recipe says it serves 4 people, the sauce wasn't even quite enough for two. Other that that, it was fab.