Fried Peppers with Garlic

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 3 bell peppers, cut into chunks
• 6 cloves of garlic, minced
• rice

Directions:

1) Heat the oil in a pan.
2) Add the bell peppers and garlic at the same time.








3) Heat until the peppers are soft.
4) Serve with rice.

Citrus Tofu with Onions and Peppers

Another one from my phone ap. Theirs was adapted from Bon Appetit and mine was greatly adapted from theirs because I don't have an oven.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped (I could not find cilantro so I used 'hot greens')
• 2/3 cup lime juice
• 1/4 cup garlic, chopped
• 3 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin, divided
• 3/4 teaspoon smoked paprika, divided
• salt and pepper
• 1 block of tofu, cut into slices
• 4 TBSP olive oil
• 1 TBSP honey
• 1 onion, cut into rounds
• 2 red bell peppers, cut into slices
• rice

Directions:

1) Mix the cilantro, lime juice, garlic and 3 teaspoons cumin, 1/2 teaspoon paprika, salt and pepper.








2) Pour half the mixture over the tofu and stir. The tofu may fall apart.








3) Toss the onion and red bell pepper with 2 TBSP olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1/4 teaspoon paprika and salt and pepper.






4) Saute the onion and red bell pepper. You may need to add more olive oil to keep it from burning as opposed to charring.







5) Cook the tofu in a pan.









6) Add 2 tablespoons and honey with the remaining cilantro and lime mixture and mix.
7) Serve the onion and red bell pepper with the tofu and the rice.

Spicy and Peppery Tofu

This was called 'black pepper tofu' but I guess I didn't add enough pepper or because it was no fresh ground the flavor didn't come though as much. Again, it came from the app on my phone.

Ingredients:

• 1 block of tofu, cut into cubes
• flour to dust the tofu
• vegetable oil
• 6 + 8 green onions, sliced then
• 2 red chillies, thinly sliced
• 6 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 1/2 TBSP ginger, chopped
• 2 TBSP black pepper
• 5 TBSP soy sauce
• 1 TBSP sugar
• rice

Directions:

1) Toss the tofu in the flour.
2) Put enough oil in a pan to come up 1/2 a cm and heat it.
3) Shake off excess flour and fry the tofu.
4) Put the tofu on a paper towel when you remove it from the oil.
5) In another pan (or clean the first one) add 1/2 cup of oil and heat to low heat.
6) Add the 6 green onions, red chillies, garlic, and ginger.
7) Saute until the contents are soft.

8) Add the soy sauce, sugar and pepper.
9) Add the tofu and 8 green onions.
10) Serve with rice.

Eat Your Greens Stir Fry

I keep seeing things online that tell me to eat more green vegetables, so here it goes.

Ingredients:

• 2 TBSP vegetable oil 
• 2 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2 green bell peppers, chopped
• 1 jalapeno, chopped
• 1/2 a cucumber, chopped
• 1/2 an onion, chopped
• salt and pepper
• 1/2 a head of cabbage, chopped
• 8 green onions, chopped
• 2 TBSP soy sauce
• rice

Directions:

1) Heat the oil in a large pan.
2) Add the garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes.
3) Add the bell peppers, jalapenos, cucumber, onion, salt and pepper and cook for 5 minutes.






4) Add the cabbage, half of the green onions and soy sauce and cook until the cabbage is wilted.
5) Serve on top of rice with the rest of the green onions on top.

Spicy Noodle Salad

 Recipe taken from here.

Ingredients:

• Noodles
• 2 TBSP sesame oil
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1 TBSP soy sauce
• 1 TBSP honey
• 1 TBSP red pepper paste
• 1/4 cabbage, sliced thin
• 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced thin
• 1 carrot, sliced thin
• 1 cucumber, sliced thin

Directions:

1) Cook the noodles and run under cold water until they are completly cool.
2) Mix in the sesame oil.







3) Mix the lemon juice, soy sauce, honey and red pepper paste well (honey and red pepper paste are thick). Add a bit of salt and pepper to taste.
4) Mix the sauce into the noodles.






5) Add the vegetables and mix again.

Teriyaki Tofu and Peanut Noodles

Recipe taken from here.

Ingredients:

• 1 block of tofu
• 1/3 cup + 1 TBSP soy sauce
• 1/4 cup + 1 TBSP white sugar
• 2 tsp grated ginger
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 3 TBSP vegetable oil
• 8 oz pasta
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 tsp chili paste
• 1/3 cup reserved pasta water
• 1/2 cup shredded carrots
• 1 pepper, thinly sliced
• 3 green onions, thinly sliced

Directions:

1) Place the tofu between layers of paper towels on a plate and place a heavy pan or brick on top for 30 minutes.
2) Mix the 1/3 soy sauce, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tsp grated ginger and garlic together.
3) Slice the tofu into cubes and put it in a shallow bowl.








4) Pour the sauce over and let sit for 1 hour.
5) Flip the tofu and let sit for another hour.
6) Put the vegetable oil in a pan and heat.






7) Add the tofu and cook for 5 minutes on each side, until it starts to change color.
8) Cook the pasta.







9) Mix the peanut butter, chili paste, 1 TBSP soy sauce, 1TBSP white sugar and 1 tsp grated ginger.
10) Add the pasta to the peanut butter mixture and add the reserved pasta water as necessary to achieve the desired consistency.




11) Add the carrots, pepper and green onions.

Vegetable Fried Rice

I finally got more Asian ingredients (sesame oil, olive oil, sugar, etc) so I'll be posting more interesting foods.

Recipe taken from here.

Ingredients:

• 2 TBSP vegetable oil
• 1/2 a block of tofu
• 1/2 tsp grated ginger
• 1 tsp finely minced garlic
• 1 cup of vegetables
• 4 cups cooked rice, cold
• 2 TBSP soy sauce
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• salt and pepper

 Directions:

1) Heat half the oil in a pan.
2) Chop the tofu and place it in a pan for 3-5 minutes and then flip.
3) Remove the tofu.
4) Heat the rest of the oil.
5) Add the ginger and garlic and saute for 15 seconds.




 6) Add the vegetables in order of what takes longest to cook and cook until they are almost done. For me this was peppers and mushrooms, then onion, then tomato and lettuce, then chives.






7) Add the rice, soy sauce, sesame oil and salt and pepper and cook until the rice is heated through.

Tofu Hot Pot

Recipe taken from here, after finding out that tofu hot pot existed though the International Korean Menu Guide app. It would be a lot better if the app had the recipes on it, but oh well....now I get to search and find a lot of options!

I found doing it this way to be a little bland, so in the future I would add more soy sauce, or make a larger portion of the sauce/broth.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 block of tofu, sliced
• 1 cup of mushrooms (or enough to cover the tofu in your pot), sliced
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1 green bell pepper, sliced
• 1 red thin pepper, sliced
• 1 TBSP soy sauce
• 1 TBSP hot pepper powder
• 2 TBSP vegetable oil
• water
• 1 cup of spinach
• 4 green onions, chopped
• pepper

Directions:

1) Stack the tofu, mushrooms, onion, bell pepper in a pot in that order.








2)  Place the soy sauce, hot pepper powder, and vegetable oil in a pan and cook for about 10 minutes, or until the powder has thinned out.






3) Add the sauce to the pot and add enough water to cover the vegetables.
4) Bring to a boil.
5) Lower the temperature and cook for about 15 minutes.






6) Add the spinach and cook for another 5 minutes.
7) Add the green onions and pepper and bring to a boil.
8) Serve with rice.