Tofu Sandwich

Sandwich are my favorite food anytime of the day. If it is brown bread then I am all the more happy. When I made Tofu Burji for Vegan Cooking. I felt it was a good filling for Sandwich. So immediately headed to the bakery in my neighborhood who make brown bread in house. They are sooper soft and taste very good. And they are FRESH from the oven. 

Ingredients :

Tofu Burji - 1 cup

Wheat Bread - 2 slices

Method:

Arrange the Burji between the slices and serve with Tomato Sauce. 

You can either toast the bread or not.

Sending this to Kids Delight event hosted by Rujuta which is a brainchild of Srivalli

Tofu Burji

Day 6 of Blogging Marathon and it is Tofu Burji that I am gonna serve you people. This is one of the simplest dishes that I have ever made in my kitchen.

My interest to make food vegan has been ever increasing, from the day I mailed Srivalli about my choice of theme. I am forever thinking of making vegan dishes out of non vegan dishes. There are many other dishes which I will be trying, after this marathon. So do watch this space for more vegan dishes. A big thanks to Valli for making me think in these lines.

Ingredients:

Tofu - scrambled 1 cup
Capsicum - finely chopped 1 cup
Onion - finely chopped 1 cup
Cumin seeds to saute
Salt to taste
Oil - 2 tsp

Method:


Heat oil in a heavy bottomed wok
When the oil is hot add the cumin seeds
As they sputter , add the chopped capsicum and onion
Saute till they are half done
The crispiness of the vegetables should be maintained
Add salt to your taste
Now add the scrambled tofu and mix well
A lot of variations can be done to this simple dish.
Veggies can be added, red chili powder can be used.
Ground pepper can be used
Your imagination can be used to the maximum to make this dish
I kept is simple, as I love capsicum in my food a lot.

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Crispy Fried Tofu with Red Chili Sauce

Day 3 of the Blogging Marathon, I am back from the Donut Fest, that happened in Donut house. I will post a separate blog about it. But in a nutshell it was a lovely experience working in the kitchen of Donut House, and making my own flavours. It was exciting though I did not win it.

Coming to the day's post, I was inspired from Chef In You's recipe for fried tofu. I have adapted the recipe from there and made some tweaks to it.

Ingredients :

Crispy fried Tofu

Tofu - 1/2 pack 

Corn flour - 2 tsp

Red Chili powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying 

Red Chili Sauce:

Garlic pods - 3 finely chopped

Vinegar - 1 tsp

Salt - a pinch

Cornflour - 1/2 tsp

Sugar - a pinch

Red chili - 2 nos, chopped into fine pieces

Method :

Crispy fried Tofu:

Remove the water content from Tofu by placing a heavy vessel over it 

Cut it into small cubes and pat dry them

In a bowl mix corn flour, red chili powder and salt to form a paste

Heat oil in a heavy bottomed wok

When the oil is hot, dip the tofu cubes in the corn flour and deep fry them

Remove them on kitchen towels and serve with Red Chili sauce

Red Chili Sauce:

In a bowl , mix all the ingredients and serve with the crispy fried tofu

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Tofu Butter Masala

First day of the Blogging Marathon , which is in the 14th Edition and I have chosen Vegan Dishes. As mentioned in my previous post, it is quite tough to make the Indian dishes, which are already vegan so wanted to concentrate mostly on Paneer, which can be replaced by Tofu .

So here I am with the preparation of Tofu Butter Masala.

Ingredients : 

Tofu - 1 packet
Butter  2 tbsp
Onion  1 no.
Tomato  2 nos.
Cashew nuts  1/2 cup
Ginger small quantity
Garlic  small quantity
Red chili powder - 1 tbsp
Coriander powder  2 tbsp
Garam Masala powder 1 tsp
Turmeric powder a pinch
Salt to taste
Oil for frying


Method: 

Squeeze out the water in tofu and cut them into small cubes. 

Shallow fry them in Butter and set aside in a kitchen towel

In the mean while soak the cashew in hot water for about 30 mins and make a paste our of it

Microwave tomato, garlic, ginger and onion for 4 mins in high

Puree the sauteed onion and tomato into a smooth paste using a blender

In a wide skillet add a spoon of butter
When the butter is hot, add the tomato onion puree
Followed by the various powders mentioned above
Add the cashew paste to it at this stage.
Let the puree , powders and cashew blend well.
Add salt to taste

When the mixture comes to a curry consistency, add the fried tofu to it

Keep stirring till you feel the Masala has taken shape.

Serve it with Hot Chapati or Rotis

Healthy Tofu Butter Masala ready to be eaten. 

I had packed it to office for lunch

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