Sweet & Sour Tofu
Get your Chinese fakeaway here! Don’t be put off by the list of ingredients as it’s actually very simple – super-quick convenience options also provided 🙂
Preparation time
20 min
Cook time
25 min
Total time
45
Meal
- mains
Servings
4
Ingredients
Sweet & sour sauce
If you’re short of time you can use a vegan shop-bought sweet & sour sauce instead
- 6 tbsp ketchup
- 4 tbsp syrup (eg maple, agave etc)
- 6 tbsp soy sauce
- 6 tbsp rice or cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 tbsp cornflour
Tofu
If you’re short of time you can use pre-marinated tofu chunks or tofu puffs (found in world food supermarkets) instead
- 450g firm tofu, drained, patted dry and cut into 1″ cubes (you can also use any meat alternative of your choice eg vegan ‘chicken’ or ‘prawns’)
- 1 tsp garlic granules
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
Curry
If you’re short of time you can use 2 x packets ready-to-use stir fry vegetables instead
- 1 onion, cut into 1″ cubes
- 1 x thumbnail of ginger, grated or finely chopped
- ½ red pepper, cut into chunky bite-sized pieces
- ½ green pepper, cut into chunky bite-sized pieces
- ½ yellow pepper, cut into chunky bite-sized pieces
- 100g baby sweetcorn (optional)
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tsp Chinese five spice
- 300g fresh or tinned pineapple chunks, drained and rinsed
- 2 tbsp lime juice
Optional serving suggestions: sprinkling of sesame seeds, fresh coriander, brown rice, vegan Thai crackers (eg Sainsbury’s, Sharwood’s), steamed broccoli, whole wheat noodles, dried pineapple, sprinkling of chilli flakes
Instructions
Sweet & sour sauce
- Thoroughly stir all ingredients together and set aside.
Tofu
- On a medium heat, fry the tofu in the oil until golden, turning frequently.
- Add the soya sauce and syrup then fry for a couple more minutes.
- Add the nutritional yeast and garlic granules and fry for a further minute.
- Set aside.
Curry
- In a large pan fry the onion, ginger, peppers and baby sweetcorn until slightly soft.
- Stir in the garlic and heat for a further minute.
- Add the Chinese five spice and heat for another minute.
- Add the sweet & sour sauce, bring to the boil and then simmer for around 10 minutes.
- Stir through the tofu pieces, pineapple chunks and lime juice. Heat for 5 more minutes before serving.
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