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Crispy baked tofu tossed with a 2-ingredient candy, sticky, and spicy chili sauce!
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Lindsay’s Notes
Holy spicy crispiness! This chili crunch tofu is chompy, sticky-sweet, and scrumptious. Two primary steps for this man:
- Bake the tofu.
- Sauce the tofu.
The tip! Blissful day! You’re consuming spicy, crispy, rockstar-level tofu with little or no effort or thought into the entire thing which is what the SOS collection is all about.
You may prep the tofu nonetheless you want, however I extremely advocate the cornstarch methodology for baking (my favourite methodology as outlined in our tofu put up), which is what’s written into the recipe right here. It by no means fails to be miraculously crispy, golden, and the right canvas to your favourite sauce.
Talking of sauce, this one couldn’t be simpler.
- Yum Yum sauce
- Chili crisp
- Honey (elective)
And that’s it. If you happen to prefer to go BIG massive on taste, you can too grate a clove of uncooked garlic into the sauce for one thing additional kicky. The chili crisp I exploit (Momofuku model (affiliate hyperlink)) has a little bit of garlicky-ness to it so I normally am effective leaving it at that, however we love taste. WE INVITE FLAVOR. Add to your coronary heart’s content material.
I really like making this chili crunch tofu for a fast high-protein weeknight dinner and the leftovers work superbly for a repeat lunch with a second coating of sauce. And we make this recipe an entire household affair by simply saucing the tofu for the women with the plain Yum Yum sauce, which is creamy and candy and delicate and, in fact, they find it irresistible.
Chili crunch tofu for prez!
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Chili Crunch Tofu Video
Description
Crispy baked tofu tossed with a 2-ingredient candy, sticky, and spicy chili sauce!
Chili Crunch Tofu:
Extras:
- Prep: Preheat the oven to 425 levels. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Prepping the Tofu: Lower tofu in half so you will have two even, flat items. Press the moisture out of the tofu, utilizing paper towels or a towel. (The extra water you take away, the quicker it should crisp up within the oven, however I normally don’t spend greater than 5-10 minutes right here.) Lower tofu into cubes and switch to a bowl. Add cornstarch, soy sauce, and olive oil. Toss gently to coat. It doesn’t need to be completely clean, however simply attempt to usually get all of the items semi-covered.
- Bake the Tofu: Switch to the baking sheet and roast for 20-25 minutes, stirring a couple of times, to get the tofu evenly browned and crispy.
- Make the Sauce: Combine Yum Yum sauce and chili crisp in a small bowl.
- Combine Tofu and Sauce: When the tofu is completed, toss it with a number of tablespoons of sauce, reserving sauce for topping.
- Serve: Serve with rice, on a salad, noodles, no matter you want. Dollop with additional sauce if you need, and high with inexperienced onions. OOO-eee that is good!
Notes
Learn how to Make Cauliflower Garlic Rice: That is completely elective – simply one thing I take pleasure in with this tofu if I can deal with one additional sheet pan within the combine. On a separate sheet pan, add a bag of cauliflower rice. Drizzle with oil and season generously with salt. Add to the oven similtaneously the tofu; roast till very browned and flavorful, about 30-40 minutes, stirring often. Add about 2 cups cooked rice on to the pan, together with 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder and a squeeze of lemon. Toss to mix, return to the oven for a minute to heat all of it up, and also you’re carried out!
Vitamin: The vitamin information under is just for the tofu and doesn’t embody rice.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Prepare dinner Time: 20 minutes
- Class: Dinner
- Methodology: Bake
- Delicacies: Asian-Impressed
Key phrases: baked tofu, spicy tofu, tofu bowl
What Do You Serve with This Chili Crunch Tofu?
I normally serve it on pre-cooked rice (SOS) or, if I’ve a teeny bit of additional time, I’ll make cauliflower garlic rice, which is what you see within the footage right here.
To make it: you’re simply roasting store-bought cauliflower rice till it’s golden and yummy, after which tossing it with precooked brown rice and a little bit of garlic powder and salt (The recipe can be outlined within the notes part of the recipe card above.)
That stated, you may serve this tofu with something – a salad, a bowl of veg, or in a wrap! It will be nice in lettuce cups for lettuce wraps as properly.
How Do You Make This Tofu Gluten-Free / Dairy-Free?
It ought to be naturally dairy-free, and to make it gluten-free, simply use tamari or coconut aminos! However examine the labels in your particular model of Yum Yum sauce and your chili crisp simply to ensure the remainder can be gluten-free and dairy-free.
What Can I Sub For Yum Yum Sauce?
I purchase Yum Yum sauce (affiliate hyperlink) at Amazon, Goal, Cub, Kowalski’s… plenty of totally different grocery shops carry it! At Goal, it’s shelved each within the refrigerated produce / dressing part and the worldwide or worldwide meals part, by the teriyaki sauce and soy sauce.
However should you can’t discover it or simply don’t need to run out to the shop – you will have just a few choices:
Yum Yum sauce tastes like a candy mayo with a barely-there tomato taste. I believe you may construct an ideal sauce simply utilizing common mayo and including a bit of additional salt and sugar and perhaps a squeeze of ketchup.