Crispy Tofu

Name: Crispy Tofu
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 tsp lemon juice; 4 cloves garlic; 1 pinch ginger; 3 tbsp olive oil; 1/3 cup soy sauce; 2 tbsp brown sugar; 3 tbsp sriracha sauce; 3 oz corn starch; 14 oz tofu

Leire Gamboa

“It's always good to know how cook tofu well. If you can successfully do it, you will like it more and more. Cooking the tofu the way we have prepared it in this recipe gives it tons of flavor. It's spicy, juicy, and really crispy. What's not to love!”

ingredients

Difficulty

Easy

Time

20'

Fresh ingredients

lemon juice

1 tsp

garlic

4 cloves

ginger

1 pinch

tofu

14 oz

Pantry ingredients

olive oil

3 tbsp

soy sauce

1/3 cup

brown sugar

2 tbsp

sriracha sauce

3 tbsp

corn starch

3 oz

Instructions

Gently press the tofu to extract any excess water.

Prepare the sauce to marinate the tofu in. Grab a bowl that is slightly larger than the tofu and mix soy sauce, brown sugar, sriracha (if you don't have any, use another hot sauce), a teaspoon of lemon juice, grated garlic cloves, and some grated ginger. Save 2 or 3 tablespoons of this sauce in a bowl to use later.

Cut the tofu into bite sized pieces and let it marinate it in the sauce you've prepared. Try to make it so that all of the tofu marinates equally on all sides, and let it stand in the fridge for 4 hours or all night.

When it's ready to cook, remove the tofu from the marinade and roll in the corn starch.