Sweet and Sour Tofu and Vegetables

SWEET AND SOUR TOFU AND VEGETABLES is a quick and easy dish to prepare that is colorful and filling, served with rice and some greens. This dish served five.

Ingredients in Rice Cooker

2 cups — jasmine rice

3 1/2 cups — water 

1 bunch — chopped collards

 

Method

Use a rice cooker to cook up two cups of jasmine rice with three and a half cups of water, with a bunch of chopped collards in the steamer above.

Ingredients in Bowl

2 tblsp. — organic cornstarch

2 tblsp. — water

15oz — canned organic pineapple chunks and juice

1/4 cup — water

1 tblsp. — apple cider vinegar

1 tsp — sweetener like maple syrup or agave

2 tblsp. — tamari

1/2 tsp — ginger powder

1 touch — red pepper

 

Ingredients in Cast Iron Pan

1 — chopped medium onion

1 tblsp. — olive oil

1 tblsp. — toasted sesame oil

1 — carrot, thinly sliced

Optional — additional sliced vegetables (green beans, corn, peppers, broccoli)

1 block — tofu, cubed

1 sprinkle — salt

 

Method

In a bowl mix together two tablespoons of organic cornstarch in two tablespoons of water, adding most of a fifteen ounce can of organic pineapple chunks and juice. I let the boys drink and eat some of it. Also, I only had rings, so I chopped them up.

Add another quarter cup of water, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, a teaspoon of agave syrup or some other sweetener, two tablespoons of tamari soy sauce, half a teaspoon ginger powder, and a touch of red pepper. Mix this all together.

Chop up a medium onion and saute it in one tablespoon olive oil and one tablespoon toasted sesame oil in a cast iron pan. Thinly slice a carrot into small pieces and add that in with the onion. If there are any other vegetables you'd like to add, go ahead. I had a small container of green beans and corn, so I threw that in. Broccoli would be good, and then you could forgo the greens.

Cube a block of tofu and add it in with a sprinkle of salt.

As soon as the carrots are soft enough — which shouldn't take long if you sliced them thinly — add in the bowl of liquid and pineapple chunks. Stir it until slightly thickened, and then serve it over the rice, with the greens on the side.