Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, warm tofu salad with shiso. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Warm tofu salad with shiso is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Warm tofu salad with shiso is something which I have loved my entire life.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:
- Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil/ neutral oil
- Prepare 1-2 shallots, peeled and finely chopped
- Get 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
- Take 2 cm chunk fresh ginger, peeled and grated
- Get Daikon - this was about half a big daikon; sliced thinly
- Get 1 small-medium cucumber, sliced thinly on the diagonal
- Prepare 1-2 heads tatsoi (or pak choi or another green)
- Get 2-4 red radishes, finely chopped
- Take 2 spring onions, finely chopped
- Take 1-2 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted
- Make ready Firm tofu - pressed and cubed
- Prepare For the dressing
- Make ready 2 tbsp mirin
- Get 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- Make ready 1 tsp sake - optional
- Prepare 2 tsps ume plum seasoning - optional
- Take Juice of 1/2 small lemon
- Prepare 10 shiso leaves
You'll love the tangy ponzu sauce too. It is super easy to make and goes well with many Japanese and Asian dishes. This sauce is so versatile that it may also be used as a simple dressing to garnish simple green leaf salads or a Japanese onion salad if desired. Examples of hot dishes that would go well with this shiso and ume sauce include simple grilled chicken breast, steamed white fish, or boiled thinly sliced Shabu-shabu style pork or beef. ~ Soba salad with shiso, with bonus information on the Qi boosting properties of shiso. ~ Sprinkle if over tofu, as in Chika's tofu à la mode. ~ Use it with rice: in onigiri, or over a bowl of steamed rice, or in fried rice. ~ Use it in this avocado and grapefruit salad. ~ Sprinkle it over a carrot and ginger soup. ~ Add it to a cucumber.
Steps 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 😋
Green shiso can be fried, used as a garnish, added to soups or salads, and used to flavor rice. The flavor is a combination of citrus and cinnamon, with a slight undertone of anise. This aromatic herb is also a great seasoning for fish, chicken, beef and radishes. Red shiso is much spicier than green shiso and is often found in a salad mix. In this recipe, the simple use of shiso leaves is enough to highlight the unique flavor of Japanese cuisine.
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