Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tofu, Cauliflower, sweet potatoes, bell pepper, garlic, turmeric, ginger and simmer in in this coconut curry dish. Everything is simmered in light coconut milk with a little tomato sauce and plenty of aromatic spices to make it rich and creamy and FLAVORFUL. This Cashew Tofu stir-fry is loaded up with healthy veggies, crispy tofu, roasted cashews, and tossed with a simple ginger stir-fry sauce. So when I was craving some old-school Chinese cashew chicken a few weeks ago, we decided to swap in tofu instead for a vegetarian (also vegan and gluten-free).
Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans:
- Take extra firm tofu (1 brick)
- Prepare green beans, washed & cut in 2” pieces
- Make ready toasted cashews (unsalted)
- Make ready unsweetened coconut milk
- Prepare ” ginger, peeled & grated
- Take garlic cloves, minced
- Prepare soy sauce
- Get molasses
- Make ready dried scallions
- Take oil (avoid olive oil this time)
- Prepare rice vinegar
- Prepare salt & pepper
Flip the can of coconut milk upside down and open it from the bottom. Pour off the liquid and scoop ½ cup of the solid coconut cream into a blender. Add the pineapple juice, lime juice, and chili garlic sauce. Add the coconut milk, tomato sauce, broth, ground cashews and raisins.
Steps to make Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans:
- Halve the tofu brick horizontally and place on paper towels to absorb as much water as possible. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan on high heat, until it glistens. Season the tofu on all sides with salt / pepper and fry at least 4 minutes per side, or until golden and crispy. Be careful not to move it except for flipping, to avoid it from breaking. Reserve.
- Add 1 tbsp oil to the same pan and sauté the green beans for 3-4 minutes, or until blisters appear. Place in a bowl and reserve.
- One more tbsp oil into the pan, and this time add the minced ginger and garlic. Sauté until fragrant (30 seconds, more or less). Add coconut milk, soy sauce, molasses. Turn down heat to low and reduce the sauce to half, stirring constantly, until it thickens and becomes syrupy (this will take some 12-15 minutes).
- Add cashews and cook in the sauce for 2 minutes. Cube the tofu and add to the sauce, mixing carefully to coat the cubes without breaking them.
- To serve, toss the green beans with rice wine and dried scallions. Serve the whole thing in a bowl with your favorite starch (we used steamed basmati rice). Yummers!
Add the pineapple juice, lime juice, and chili garlic sauce. Add the coconut milk, tomato sauce, broth, ground cashews and raisins. Stir until liquids are well combined. Toss in the tofu and stir. Serve immediately over brown rice, if desired, and garnished.
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