Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, eggplant & tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Eggplant & tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Eggplant & tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.
Eggplant (US, Australia, New Zealand, anglophone Canada), aubergine (UK, Ireland, Quebec) or brinjal (South Asia, South Africa) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Solanum melongena is grown worldwide for its edible fruit. Most commonly purple, the spongy, absorbent fruit is used in several cuisines. Typically used as a vegetable in cooking, it is a berry by botanical.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have eggplant & tofu using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant & tofu:
- Make ready 1 eggplant sliced
- Take 1/2 cup tofu cut in cubes
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic chopped
- Prepare 2 inch ginger sliced
- Take 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Take 1 tbsp mirin
- Prepare 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
- Get 1 tsp crushed peanuts
- Get 1 tsp seasame seeds
- Make ready Green oniins to garnish
- Take to taste Salt and some chilli flakes
- Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 tsp szechwan powder
- Get 1 tsp vinegar
It also contains other vitamins and minerals. Eggplant (Solanum melongena) grows wild in its homeland of South Asia as a perennial plant, though these warm-season vegetables are treated by most gardeners as annuals. Given their tropical and subtropical heritage, eggplants do require relatively high temperatures, similar to tomatoes and peppers (which, like eggplants, are in the Nightshade family). One of the most popular baked eggplant recipes is eggplant parmesan, with its layers of mozzarella and marinara mixed in with the eggplant.
Steps to make Eggplant & tofu:
- Heat a pan and put olive oil. Once the oil is warm, add garlic & ginger.
- Cook the eggplants, sprinkle a bit of salt and keep aside.
- In the same pan add oil, tofu and pan fry it as per packet instructions.
- Meanwhile, mix soysauce, vinegar, mirin, szechwan, sweetchilli sauce in a bowl
- Once tofu is cooked, add eggplants and stir. Pour over this sauce mixture & stir.
- Sprinkle some sesame seeds and peanuts. Garnish with spring onions & serve.
Given their tropical and subtropical heritage, eggplants do require relatively high temperatures, similar to tomatoes and peppers (which, like eggplants, are in the Nightshade family). One of the most popular baked eggplant recipes is eggplant parmesan, with its layers of mozzarella and marinara mixed in with the eggplant. But eggplant can also be baked into a healthier take on French fries, roasted and mixed in with pasta, or broiled and pureed to make a tasty dip. Eggplant is the ultimate versatile fruit. (Yep, it's a fruit, not a vegetable — learn more about that here.)Because you can fry it, stuff it, bake it, and grill it, there are a ton of totally. Eggplant is the best kind of vegetable, which is to say, it's a multi-tasker that can take on many different and delicious forms and be incorporated into all kinds of recipes.
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