Truly fancy, delicious, restaurant style, vegan dish in 10 minutes. This is a recipe which will come to your rescue when you haven’t planned a meal on a week day.
It is a great vegetarian /vegan dish for any day,especially when it takes only 10 minutes to make. If we are given a choice of preparing a delicious dish in 10 minutes for dinner, we would choose it without thinking. 🙂 Will we not ;)! Or Is it just me 😀
It is a great dish to entertain with. You can either serve it as an appetizer with tooth picks, or serve it as main dish with plain or fried rice. You can press it between two slices of bread for a healthy quick breakfast.
I am usually very content eating humble food on the weekdays. It is more regional food that I grew up or sometimes salads (if I am lazy to stand up in the kitchen or if I am guilty having too much of junk foods 😉 which is most times!). But on the weekends, I tend to make and love to experiment in the kitchen. It is because I have more time on the weekends, and also I wanted to make myself occupied and busy the weekends.I really don’t want to get bored or else my mind would go wander about all thoughts. J And top of all this, I love to eat and I get to that all weekend :)! So, I made this for the weekend when I had some leftover rice from Friday evening and wanted to finish it up on Saturday. I wanted to make something quick to just eat with the rice which is tasty and filling. I did not want to stand in the kitchen for a long time 🙂 I knew I had some plans of going out for dinner. 😀
This was quick, flavorful and I love the addition of garlic with skin! You can serve this with some soy sesame sauce dip. You can even use the same method and do the recipe with paneer or baby corn. You can even fry the tofu and toss in this spice mixture.
- Tofu – 500 Grams (Extra firm) (Chopped to bite size cube pieces)
- Garlic – 7-8 cloves (don’t peel the skin)
- Ginger – 2 inch
- Dry red chillies – 8-10
- White sesame seeds – 1 tbsp
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Soy sauce – 2 tsp
- Sesame oil – 2 tbsp
- Black Pepper powder (or crushed pepper) – 1 tsp
- Chopped Green onions – to garnish
- Place the chilis, Ginger, sesame seeds,salt and garlic (with skin) in a blender and pulse it for 3-4 times. It should not be a smooth paste and it should turn into a coarse paste.
- Heat oil in pan in medium to low heat, add the spice mix and fry for 30 seconds and add then add the soy sauce, pepper powder and tofu cubes.
- Toss well for the spices and soy sauce to coat the tofu well. Fry for 2 minutes or so, till the tofu turns slightly golden and crispy on the outside.
- Garnish with chopped green onions or sesame seeds.
2. You can skip the ginger if you do not like it.
3. You can use paneer, baby corn for the same recipe.
4. If you can’t take this spicy tofu, use 4-5 chillies.
I am sure to try this lovely dish…looks so delicious
thanks dear for you lovely quick recipes like this one
Thank you so much Sindiya 🙂
Love the dish, the garlic skins add a really good texture to the recipie..
How many servings does this recipe yield???
It yields 2 cups 🙂
Love 10 minute dishes, looks like a great recipe.
Thank you so much 🙂
Hi,
Just tried this!… came out awesome.. gonna pair this with some hakka noodles 🙂
Thanks
Rashmi
Wow. Thats great! Thank you 🙂
That looks delicious!
Thank you 🙂 Teresa 🙂
I definitely will be trying this spicy tofu. It looks super delicious & flavoursome – and so easy to whip up too!
thank you so much :)! Do try and let me know how it turns out!
Tried this recipe. It turned out great with Hakka noodles!! Very spicy for me though, I will use fewer red chillies next time. Thanks for the recipe.
thank you Priya for trying the recipe 🙂 glad you liked it! yes, the spiciness may differ as the chillies differ 🙂
hey suki
y should we not peel the garlic? any reason? will it not come in between in our mouth while chewing the tofu? 🙂
Hello Div, It would but the flavors of it is good. It gives you a different taste with that spicy flavor and tofu ! 🙂
Many coastal dishes in India (Manglorean and Konkan, for instance) use garlic with the skin. When roasted or fried, the skin is nice and crunchy, and adds an interesting bite to the dish.
That said, ‘Suki’, the lovely red colour of the dish comes from a few Kashmiri chillies?
Can I use ginger garlic paste in the first step. I dont have mixer with me.
Just lovely, and very healthy, too!
The only thing that put me off using the garlic skins is that we can only get the Chinese variety where we live, and I can imagine that unless what you use is organic, there are likely to be a lot of chemicals in that outer layer.
I served this with egg and vegetable Chinese cauliflower ‘rice’ (and actually preferred it to proper rice, which must seem like an appalling heresy!)
🙂 ah 🙂 you can use without the skin 😉
Hi suki, what kind of pepper powder are you referring to?
This is DELICIOUS!
Everyone in my family loved it 😃
We’re adding this recipe to our monthly meal plan.
Thank u 🙂
Hi Dear, are you really visiting this website on a regular basis,
if so afterward you will without doubt get nice experience.
I love using garlic with the skins for its wonderful flavour. I am sure going to try out recipe as it looks so delicious! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much 🙂 Fouzia
I bought extra firm tofu on a whim last week and I have everything but the fresh red pepper but I think I may have a jalapeno somewhere in the fridge that should do.
🙂 did that work ayngelina 🙂
I made this delicious tofu for a weekend snack time and it was a hit. Altered the spice level as per my lil girl’s taste. It tasted so good. Thanks
Thank you so much 🙂 feeling lovely 🙂
Wow Suki that looks delicious n amazed me 😊 want to try asap . But, I will reduce the chillies as v don’t eat much spicy.. Loving it…
Thank you so much Tehmina 🙂
Me and my husband have both tried to make this a few times with little success. We’re a big fan of tofu, chilies, and garlic, but this recipe just didn’t do it for us.
OH ho.. so sorry on that 🙁 I am not sure which went wrong..could you give more details on the taste?
Hi suki, what kind of pepper powder were you referring to? Black pepper or chili powder?
Black pepper, Sonal. Thanks 🙂
Tried this today,absolutely simple and delicious.Perfect for a Friday night Entree
I loved the quick recipe. I made marinade fromthe given ingredients and applied on tofu cubes. Then fried them in airfryer. Soft inside, crunchy outside and delicious everywhere.
I’ve made this many times; it’s quick, delicious, and filling. I’m too lazy to have to clean out a spice grinder, so I just put everything in my mortar and grind it into a paste by hand. Also, I didn’t notice that the sesame oil really made that much of a difference in flavor, so I save 200+ calories by leaving out the oil and just frying everything with cooking spray.
thank you for tagging my spicy tofu recipe 🙂
thank you for trying my spicy tofu recipe 🙂