This month, for The Secret Recipe Club, I was snooping around on Ilona's Kitchen and came away with a whole lot of links taking me to yummy recipes that I want to try! We seem to have a lot in common. Wife, Daughter, Mother of two. Not to mention our taste for spicy food.
My recipe choice to share became a full meal instead of just being a side dish. By adding some dry fried tofu triangles to the recipe, I turned this into a meal! I used vegetable broth in place of the water in the recipe and cut the oil in half. I also added about a teaspoon of cornstarch to the sauce before putting it in the pan and sauteed the garlic with the bok choy. Oh, and I added a little red bell pepper for a little contrasting color. My tofu, was pressed and dry fried to a crisp and added to the sauce then I tossed the bok choy with the sauced up tofu.
- 1 lb extra firm tofu, pressed and cut into triangles
- cooking spray
- 1 lb baby bok choy, chopped and white part separated from leafy part
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- ½ tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- ¼ cup vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- In a large skillet sprayed with cooking spray, fry tofu triangles until crispy over medium high heat, turning pieces onto all sides to crisp up. This might be a little time consuming, but very worth it! Remove tofu from pan and set aside.
- While tofu is dry frying, chop baby bok choy into bite sized pieces, separating the white bottoms from the green tops. You will cook the white bottoms before cooking the leafy green.
- Make sauce mixture by mixing vegetable broth, oyster sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar, red pepper and cornstarch. Set aside.
- Place sesame oil in hot skillet along with garlic. Sizzle about 30 seconds then place the white part of bok choy in pan with garlic. Stir fry about 2 minutes. Add the leafy part of bok choy to pan and stir fry another minute. Transfer bok choy to a bowl and set aside. Pout sauce mixture into hot skillet and bring to a simmer. Simmer sauce until it begins to thicken. Add crispy tofu to sauce in hot skillet and toss to coat. Return bok choy mixture to skillet and toss with tofu and sauce. Arrange stir-fried bok choy and tofu mixture on platter and squeeze juice of 1 lime over top of mixture before serving.
yung@foodyoo.com says
It seems like a typical stir fry dish. I like it with tofu. Tofu stir fry with scallion is yummy, maybe can try to add some. And I like to add some rice wine too when stirs fry vegetables. Then serve it with rice. Wow…it is so delicious. 🙂
Jeff @ Cheeseburger says
This is an excellent twist to the original recipe. I love that you have made it into a main dish.
Justin says
This looks delicious! I've never had tofu but maybe someday I can break out of my ways and give it a try. There's nothing too scary about it right? 🙂
Moviegirl03 says
I've been looking for more tofu dishes to try. This looks great. We've never tried Bok Choy either, so it'd be a great dish for trying something new. Great choice for SRC!
TeaLady says
This looks really good! (Well, without the tofu)
honeyb says
Why do I have a feeling Grumpy doesn't eat tofu? 😉 That looks good enough to try. I've only tried tofu a few times.
Funny you called it "snooping" around your SRC blog. That's how I always feel, like I'm snooping. 😉
Shelby says
But Grumpy DOES eat tofu. 🙂 Gotcha 🙂 He prefers it crispy and only likes certain sauces, but the one tofu dish he can eat the "crap" out of that isn't cirspy tofu (his words) is the Red & White Cauliflower Bake that I have posted on my blog here.
Jersey Girl Cooks says
Love this colorful dish. Great recipe choice!
Cooking Rookie says
Such a nice and simple recipe! Great choice for SRC!
Elizabeth@ Food Ramblings says
what a great recipe- yay for src 🙂
Lesa @ Edesias Notebook says
What a beautiful dish, Shelby! A great healthy meal. I haven't cooked with bok choy before; I don't know what I'm waiting for!
Lisa~~ says
Love bok choy and the flavors you used sound amazing!
If you haven't already, I'd love for you to check out my SRC entry Loaded Potato Soup.
Lisa~~
Camilla Mann says
That looks delicious - and fast! I will have to give it a try soon. Nice SRC pick.
AmandaE says
I'm a huge fan of bok choy and tofu - in fact that is what I had for lunch today 🙂 Needless to say I think this was the PERFECT SRC pick!