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Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Vegan General Tso’s Tofu

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Isabella Collier
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Vegan General Tso’s Tofu

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, vegan general tso’s tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Sprinkle with sesame seeds and freshly chopped green onion. Make sure to use very firm or extra-firm tofu for this recipe. How to make General Tso's tofu - Step by step. How to make General Tso's Tofu.

Vegan General Tso’s Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Vegan General Tso’s Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan general tso’s tofu using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan General Tso’s Tofu:
  1. Prepare 1 block tofu (medium)
  2. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
  3. Make ready 1/4 tsp pepper
  4. Make ready For the sauce
  5. Make ready 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  6. Make ready 3 tablespoon apple vinegar
  7. Prepare 2 tablespoon raw sugar (I just used white sugar)
  8. Prepare 1-3 tablespoon sambal (just to your liking) * very spicy *
  9. Prepare 1/3 cup vegetable stock
  10. Prepare 1 tsp cornstarch
  11. Get 1 tablespoon chili sauce (loa gan ma)
  12. Get 3-5 dry thai chilies or 1 tablespoon of red pepper flakes
  13. Prepare 1 tablespoon minced garlic

Combine soy sauce, vinegar, mirin, oil, garlic, and ginger in resealable container. Add tofu, and toss to coat. HOW TO MAKE GENERAL TSO'S TOFU? Toss to coat (the cornstarch will become goopy).

Instructions to make Vegan General Tso’s Tofu:
  1. 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.
  2. Start making the sauce
  3. In a small bowl, add soy sauce, vinegar, samba,sugar,cornstarch,vegetable stock, mix, set aside.
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. Done.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Sever over rice and any steamed vegetables.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.

HOW TO MAKE GENERAL TSO'S TOFU? Toss to coat (the cornstarch will become goopy). If you love sticky, sweet, spicy food then you'll enjoy this recipe for Vegan General Tso's Tofu from the Chloe Flavor: Saucy, Crispy, Spicy, Vegan cookbook. Add water, soy sauce, mirin, and rice vinegar. Drop tofu cubes in the bag, seal, and gently shake until coated with cornstarch.

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