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Sweet and sour Tofu


Homemade sweet and sour sauce, you can use as tofu dipping sauce or stir fried sweet and sour tofu
Simply just mixing all the sauce ingredients and simmer in low heat and thickened with cornstarch you can add red flakes pepper for slighly spicy if you like.








Ingredients :
- 1 block extra firm tofu /fried tofu/ cut in cube
- 1/2 of fresh pineapple / peel and cut in cube
- 2 sweet pepper/ cut in cube
- 1/2 of yellow onion /slice
- vegetable oil for fry

for the sauce
- 1/3 cup rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp ketchup
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tsp cornstarch mixed with 2 teaspoon water
( Mix rice vinegar,brown sugar,ketchup and soy sauce together and bring to boil in the small pot and mix cornstarch with water and add to other ingredients and stir to thicken ) set aside

preparation :
Heat vegetable oil in the fry pan,fry tofu until slightly golden brown and drain tofu on plate with paper towel,set aside/ if use cooked tofu just cut in cube.

reduce amount of oil on fry pan just leave about 2 Tablespoon
fry onion and pepper for about 2-3 minutes add fried tofu and fresh pineapple
and add sweet sour sauce and stir until combine,and cook about 4 minutes
ready to serve with Rice is best !!

Enjoy,,,,and happy monday everyone :)

Comments

  1. I like this version of recipe using tofu. I have never thought of it before and another one try for this weekend. We eat plenty of tofu and at times I am lost on what to do with it.

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  2. I love this recipe and it looks delicious. I am going to have to try this. Have a lovely day.

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  3. What a great idea to make tofu with sweet and sour sauce. I may even get my husband to try it like this. :)

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  4. I love tofu and this recipe really sounds interesting!

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