Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, warm tofu salad with shiso. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Umeboshi (pickled plum) is often pickled with red shiso leaves. Serving umeboshi with a little green shiso and ponzu will get all the aromatics you can. Shiso comes in green or purple leaves with a slightly prickly texture and pointy, jagged edges, and it has a unique and vibrant taste that I could describe as herbaceous and citrusy. Like most leafy herbs, I find it is best used raw, the leaves whole or chiffonaded.
Warm tofu salad with shiso is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Warm tofu salad with shiso is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook warm tofu salad with shiso using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Warm tofu salad with shiso:
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil/ neutral oil
- Prepare 1-2 shallots, peeled and finely chopped
- Make ready 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
- Make ready 2 cm chunk fresh ginger, peeled and grated
- Prepare Daikon - this was about half a big daikon; sliced thinly
- Take 1 small-medium cucumber, sliced thinly on the diagonal
- Make ready 1-2 heads tatsoi (or pak choi or another green)
- Make ready 2-4 red radishes, finely chopped
- Take 2 spring onions, finely chopped
- Take 1-2 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted
- Prepare Firm tofu - pressed and cubed
- Take For the dressing
- Make ready 2 tbsp mirin
- Take 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Take 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- Make ready 1 tsp sake - optional
- Prepare 2 tsps ume plum seasoning - optional
- Prepare Juice of 1/2 small lemon
- Take 10 shiso leaves
The salad on top consists of celery, scallions, and cilantro. Soaking them in ice cold water will help plump up their cells, making them extra crisp and crunchy—a really great contrast to the soft, warm tofu underneath. Note: Chinkiang vinegar, broad bean paste, and chili oil can all be found readily in. Serve this warm salad with crunchy breadsticks and a tall glass of iced jasmine tea.
Instructions to make Warm tofu salad with shiso:
- For the dressing: mix on the liquids together. With the shiso leaves, get them into a pile, roll them up and finely chop on the diagonal (chiffonade). You may need to do some additional chopping. Add half of the chopped shiso to the dressing and combine. Save the rest to use as a garnish.
- Heat the oil in a shallow pan - medium/high heat. Add the shallots and sauté for a few minutes. Add the garlic and ginger. Sauté for another minute.
- Add the cucumber and daikon. Sauté for a minute or so.
- Add the tatsoi and sauté for a couple of minutes.
- Take off the heat. Stir in some of the dressing and the tofu.
- Serve with the spring onion, radishes, sesame seeds and extra chopped shiso leaves on top. Add more dressing. Enjoy 😋
Note: Chinkiang vinegar, broad bean paste, and chili oil can all be found readily in. Serve this warm salad with crunchy breadsticks and a tall glass of iced jasmine tea. I made this salad minus the honey and veggies and with the addition of some minced scallions and roasted shrimp. I was trying to duplicate a recipe that is served at our local Chinese restaurant and this comes very. Tomato Basil Salad with Seasoned Tofu » I LOVE VEGAN.
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