Chinese Salt & Pepper Tofu

Chinese Salt & Pepper Tofu. A delicious way to elevate your tofu with Asian flavours. Perfect as a side dish for dinner or lunch.

This is one of my favourite ways of cooking with tofu. It's delicious, flavourful with that salt and pepper kick. It's also a tad spicy if you use red chili but you can always omit that.

Chinese salt and pepper tofu is a great side dish when paired with some white rice and veggies. It's commonly served at Chinese restaurants and you probably have most of the ingredients in your pantry already!

This is best Chinese salt and pepper tofu I've ever made and I am really excited to share it with you! If you happen to make my recipe, please let me know in the comments section below.

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Watch how I made this!

For this recipe

You will need the following ingredients for my chinese salt pepper tofu:

600 grams extra firm tofu, diced
6 garlic cloves minced
2 teaspoon ginger, chopped
1 red chilli sliced
2 stalk spring onion chopped
1 teaspoon cane sugar
1.5 tablespoon Dry Sherry Wine
⅓ cup Avocado oil for frying
Salt and pepper to taste

Marinade:
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoon Dry Sherry Wine
1 egg
6 tablespoon cornstarch

How to make Chinese salt and pepper tofu

1. In a large mixing bowl, mix together your marinade ingredients.
2. Pat dry your diced tofu. Add tofu to the marinade and mix. Allow this to sit for 5 minutes.
3. Then in a hot pan set over medium heat, add avocado oil.
4. To the pan, add in your battered tofu several pieces at a time, draining the excess batter back into the bowl. Fry your tofu until golden brown on each side.
5. Finally, add in garlic, ginger, red chili, cane sugar, green onions, and dry sherry over your tofu. Quickly stir fry together. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!

Tips for Making this Dish:

• Pat dry your tofu after dicing it into cubes as this allows the batter to stick better
• When making your marinade, the corn starch will be sticky but that's ok. Keep whisking until it's well combined.
• When marinating your tofu, allow it to sit in the marinade for 5 minutes to let the flavours soak in.
• You only want to cook the tofu over medium heat or the batter will burn
• When adding the tofu, do not pour it in with the batter. Instead, add it piece by piece allows the excess batter to drain back into the mixing bowl.

I hope these tips are helping in cooking my Chinese salt and pepper fried tofu!

Give it a try!

Well I hope you give my Chinese Salt & Pepper Tofu recipe a try! It always excites me when you guys make my recipes and I hope this is one you try.

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Chinese Salt and Pepper Tofu (20-min. Recipe)

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Chinese Salt & Pepper Tofu. A delicious way to elevate your tofu with Asian flavours. Perfect as a side dish for dinner or lunch. Ready in 20 minutes.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 20 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Chinese

Servings 4

Calories per serving 680 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 600 grams tofu extra firm, diced
• 6 cloves garlic minced
• 2  teaspoon ginger  chopped
• 1 red chili pepper sliced
• 2 stalk green onion chopped
• 1 teaspoon cane sugar
• 1.5 tablespoon Dry Sherry Wine
• 3 tablespoon Avocado oil for frying
• Salt and Pepper to taste to taste

Marinade:

• 2 tablespoon Dry Sherry Wine
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 egg
• 6 tablespoon cornstarch

Instructions

 

• In a large mixing bowl, mix together your marinade ingredients.
• Pat dry your diced tofu. Add tofu to the marinade and mix. Allow this to sit for 5 minutes.
• Then in a hot pan set over medium heat, add avocado oil.
• To the pan, add in your battered tofu several pieces at a time, draining the excess batter back into the bowl. Fry your tofu until golden brown on each side.
• Finally, add in garlic, ginger, red chili, cane sugar, green onions, and dry sherry over your tofu. Quickly stir fry together. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!

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Nutrition

Calories: 680kcal | Carbohydrates: 113g | Protein: 34g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 601mg | Potassium: 97mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 229IU | Vitamin C: 45mg | Calcium: 293mg | Iron: 8mg

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Chinese

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