31st
August
2007
Tofu with gravy
posted in Food & Recipe |
I’ve been cooking more often this week because I bought a lot of groceries. This is one simple tofu recipe. I use House brand Soft Silken Tofu.
You need: 1 block of tofu cut into 2″ square blocks, minced garlic, thinly sliced carrot, 1/2 tomato (cut anyway you want - diced, chopped, sliced); some water, 1/2 beatened egg and potato starch (or corn starch) for gravy, green onion for garnish.
- Boiled a pot of water to blanch the tofu.
- Heat wok/pan. Put in cooking oil. Once hot, add in minced garlic.
- When garlic is fragrant, add in sliced carrot. Stir stir.
- Add tomato. Stir stir.
- Add seasoning to your taste - salt, sugar & pepper.
- When you see the tomato is soft, add in water (the amount depends how much you like the gravy; I like gravy, so I added at least 3/4 cup).
- Mix 1 tsp potato starch with little water. Add in to the gravy when is boiling. Stir while adding.
- When is boiling again, SLOWLY add in beatened egg. Stir while adding to create the ‘tan fa‘ effect.
- Test the gravy for taste, if not enough, add more seasoning.
- Add in tofu and stir around to get the gravy covering the tofu.
- Serve with some rice. Fried egg shown next to tofu was the leftover half from the cooking.
- Little boss approved, he finished the whole plate, only 1 plate this time.
**You can be creative with this. You can use pasta instead of rice. The gravy is good enough as sauce for the pasta too.
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I also approve. I always like tofu with gravy. I bought the mushrooms just now, will cook later. Also I want to ask whether if you add salt into the water for boiling the pasta? Because if you do that, it is easier for the pasta to absorb the flavour. I knew that we had to add salt but didn’t exactly know why, until Mr Oliver told me.
Try lar, for Ethan, may be he will like it too.
Yes, I add a little salt to mine. Some mommies can choose not to add because they might not want to introduce too much salt to the kids yet.
posted on September 1st, 2007 at 12:18 am
wahh ur boss so nice hoh…everything also approve hehe…mommy cooking sure yummy
I am lucky that he isn’t too picky on food. Hopefully this will stay with him.
posted on September 1st, 2007 at 9:10 am
I got to try this recipe also…I love tofu. Shall call this recipe Anna’s Tofu gravy.
Thanks, hope you will like it.
posted on September 1st, 2007 at 10:36 am
Wah, it looks really yummy ler! May be I will try it later.
Very easy, try then let me know lar.
posted on September 2nd, 2007 at 8:16 am
Wow, you really have so many yummy looking recipes. Makes me want to get back into cooking again. Thanks for the inspiration!
You’re welcome. Cooking is fun, I really enjoy it, but need time to think what to make. With a little busy toddler around, is it hard.
posted on September 4th, 2007 at 9:43 am
hmmm…yummy
must try this for my lil ms. picky.
Hopefully, she will like it.
posted on September 4th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
envy u all lah, can feed any food to ur kids. unfortunately my lil one is slightly allergic to soy. So hv to stay away from lots of foods for now
Take it slowly. Hope her allergy will go away when she grows up. No soy, still got a lot of other food to eat.
posted on September 6th, 2007 at 12:25 am