Vegan General Tso’s Tofu
Vegan General Tso’s Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, vegan general tso’s tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan general tso’s tofu using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan General Tso’s Tofu:
  1. Take 1 block tofu (medium)
  2. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  3. Prepare 1/4 tsp pepper
  4. Take For the sauce
  5. Take 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  6. Take 3 tablespoon apple vinegar
  7. Prepare 2 tablespoon raw sugar (I just used white sugar)
  8. Take 1-3 tablespoon sambal (just to your liking) * very spicy *
  9. Prepare 1/3 cup vegetable stock
  10. Take 1 tsp cornstarch
  11. Make ready 1 tablespoon chili sauce (loa gan ma)
  12. Prepare 3-5 dry thai chilies or 1 tablespoon of red pepper flakes
  13. Prepare 1 tablespoon minced garlic

Firm tofu cubes are the perfect alternative for a vegan version. I'm not the biggest fan of frying, but I still wanted the tofu cubes to be super crispy. To make this vegan General Tso tofu recip, you'll need a little over an hour. First you'll prepare the tofu and sauce and let them marinate (separately) in the fridge.

Steps to make Vegan General Tso’s Tofu:
  1. Drain water from tofu, wrap in paper towels to soak up the water, put something on top of it to hold it down, it will soak the the moisture faster that way, set aside.
  2. Start making the sauce
  3. In a small bowl, add soy sauce, vinegar, samba,sugar,cornstarch,vegetable stock, mix, set aside.
  4. Back to tofu, unwrap, and cut. Cut in the middle, then flip the two pieces on to is sides and cut them again, then cut into rectangles.(after I had it cut 4 times I put 2 on top of each and cut in rectangles as you see in the last picture)
  5. Salt and pepper tofu add to air fryer on 390 for 15 mins, half way shake them well… (can do in oven on 360 on wire rack till golden brown)
  6. Done.
  7. Notes-Make sauce, don’t heat pan up before adding anything. Turn heat on after the sweet chili sauce, peppers flakes, and garlic are in the pan.
  8. Make sauce right before tofu is done. On med heat, in frying pan, add chili sauce, garlic, and dry Thai chilies,cook for about a min while stirring, then add the vegetable stock mixture (Stir the vegetable stock mixture before adding,) this will bubble up and become thicker stir constantly, add the tofu, mix and make sure all tofu is coated with sauce. Remove from heat.
  10. Sever over rice and any steamed vegetables.
  11. Notes- this is the kinda of tofu I used, I never cooked with it before, I did go though two rounds, soaking up the water, as you can see my towels was too wet, and I just did it again. I did have cheap paper towels too. I used a plate and a can to add some weight, that work out great. It did take a little longer in my air fryer, because my tofu still had moisture in it.
  12. This was my first time cooking tofu and using some of these sauces that was hard to find I ended up finding stuff at Kroger’s,Walmart didn’t have any of it! I didnt have the peppers I couldn’t find them so I used red pepper flakes.

To make this vegan General Tso tofu recip, you'll need a little over an hour. First you'll prepare the tofu and sauce and let them marinate (separately) in the fridge. Then cut the tofu into bite size pieces. Cook the tofu cubes in a skillet with a little bit of oil over medium-high heat until all sides are golden brown. Remove tofu from pan and set aside.

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