Recipe: Perfect Mildly sweet n sour tofu salad

Mildly sweet n sour tofu salad. Make this sweet and sour tofu in minutes and forget about the takeout! It's sweet from the honey, sour from the squeeze of lime juice, salty from the soy sauce and caramelizes into a delicious sticky coating on the tofu when it's all tossed together at the end. Since tofu has a high water content, you want to try to remove as much of it as you can to avoid a watery stir fry or salad.

Tofu salad is the type of dish my mom will toss together without any recipe, with whatever ingredients she has on hand. The recipe below shows the flavor that my family uses most often - a refreshing vinegar-based dressing that brings out the ingredients. This Sweet and Sour Tofu dish is vegan-friendly and It is enjoyable for just about anybodies taste palette. You can have Mildly sweet n sour tofu salad using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mildly sweet n sour tofu salad

1. You need 1/2 of garlic.
2. Prepare 2 of large birds eye chillis (low - med on scoville scale).
3. You need 2-3 tablespoons of Olive oil.
4. You need 1/4 tablespoon of Fennel powder.
5. Prepare 1/4 tablespoon of Chicken stock.
6. You need 2 tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce.
7. Prepare 1 of large tomato.
8. You need of Cauliflower, brussel sprouts, carrots, asparagus etc.
9. You need of Tofu.
10. Prepare of Basil leaf as garnish.

Sweet and Sour Tofu tastes great served over plain rice. This lovely sweet and sour crispy tofu with veggies is paying all the work off. Inside the delicious sauce, the amazing crispy shell with a Sweet and sour taste has two explanations in Chinese. One is "酸甜", literally means "sweet and sour" and the other one is "糖醋", which means sugar and vinegar.

Mildly sweet n sour tofu salad instructions

1. Chop garlic and chilli, lightly fry in olive oil.
2. Add diced vegetables with tomato and stir-fry. Crush tomatos till juices spread at the bottom of the pan.
3. Add Worcestershire sauce, and chicken stock/ fennel powder mix in 100g warm water.
4. Add tofu, diced. Stirfry till veges get chewy (not too soft, density in fibres retained).
5. Garnish with basil leaves.

This dish is mildly spicy; to make it extra kid-friendly, omit the chiles from the sweet and sour sauce. Sweet and sour tofu with bell peppers and a tangy orange sauce is a healthy, easy recipe. This method gives the tofu a wonderful a wonderful texture that goes really well with the sweet and sour orange sauce. Vegan crispy sweet and sour tofu keeps dinner easy! It's perfect served over rice or with sautéed chinese broccoli or bok choy.