Vegan General Tso’s Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, vegan general tso’s tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This General Tso's tofu is savory, sweet, spicy and so delicious it will likely go straight onto your regular dinner rotation. I reckon anyone would when it's made like this. This General Tso's tofu is deliciously battered and fried until crispy and then drenched in the most amazing sauce. My General Tso's tofu is the perfect balance of spicy, sweet, and savory.

Vegan General Tso’s Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Vegan General Tso’s Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

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

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. The tofu is crispy and flavorful, the sauce is not too sweet and not too spicy, just thick and rich, the way I remember it. General Tso is one of the most popular Chinese takeout dishes.

Instructions 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.

The tofu is crispy and flavorful, the sauce is not too sweet and not too spicy, just thick and rich, the way I remember it. General Tso is one of the most popular Chinese takeout dishes. It's traditionally made with fried chicken. 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.

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