Sig's Tofu with Chilly and Basil
Sig's Tofu with Chilly and Basil

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sig's tofu with chilly and basil. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Top with the basil and serve with rice noodles or rice. This is crucial because it holds less water and its texture is most similar to ground meat for stir fries. Soft tofu will be too watery and it's a completely different texture, almost pudding like.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have sig's tofu with chilly and basil using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sig's Tofu with Chilly and Basil:
  1. Take 1/2 cup of fresh basil leaves ( sweet Thai is best but Greek or ordinary will do)
  2. Get 3 tbsp oil
  3. Get 4 slice tofu about 1 cm thick
  4. Take 1 clove of garlic , large
  5. Prepare 1 small red chilli
  6. Make ready 1 to 2 tablespoons of honey
  7. Take 1 tbsp soy sauce, light
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce, dark
  9. Take 1 tbsp sugar ( optional )
  10. Take 1 1/2 tbsp cornflour
  11. Take 4 tbsp water

Place a few cubes of tofu on each plate, pour over the sauce and sprinkle with the basil. So, it's perfect for those busy days when you are in a rush. I paired mine with white jasmine rice but it will go well with brown rice too. Or some sort of noodles will be amazing too!

Instructions to make Sig's Tofu with Chilly and Basil:
  1. Heat half the oil, fry the basil leaves until crisp , set leaves aside keep oil for frying the tofu.
  2. Drain and dry the tofu cut off 4 slices of about 1 cm thickness. Fry to golden brown from both sides in the basil oil. Remove and set aside .( If the leftover uncooked tofu is fresh put any leftover,covered in chilled water in fridge for up to two days.)
  3. In the meantime slice one large clove of garlic and one small red chilli , add remaining oil and fry gently until nearly brown .
  4. add soy sauces and 1-2 tablespoon of good honey.
  5. Mix cornflour with water and stir in to the garlic chilli mix until it thickens. Sweeten the sauce further with some sugar ( optional)
  6. Plate the tofu, pour over the sauce and serve with the crisped basil leaves .1.

Thai style stir fried tofu with basil is one of the most favored recipe from my blog, most pinned ever and most loved one. Lightly fried tofu are slathered generously in sambal olek ,the hot Malaysian sauce which makes everything looks scrumptious and appetizing, lavish drizzle of sesame oil infuses such nice aroma to the dish that you will return to this beautiful hot chili tofu again and again. Add more oil to pan if needed, then add peppers, carrots and garlic. Crispy pan-fried tofu is tossed in a sweet chili-lime sauce with fresh basil to make this flavorful Thai basil tofu stir-fry. Place on a shallow plate lined with kitchen towel, cover with another sheet of kitchen towel and weigh down with a heavy skillet (or something equally weighty).

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