frenchinos at home
  • stories
  • about

Ground Turkey & Tofu

10/15/2010

0 Comments

 
Picture
Diet food
I love tofu. Let me rephrase: I love any soy product, whatever you call it - tofu, beancurd, beancurd skins both dry or wet, beansprouts, taugeh, taukwa, taupok, taukee, soy milk, soy sauce, okay don't let me go there. My parents' generation would claim that by having soy milk, one's baby will be fair-skinned; or one would have fairer complexion.

JL hardly fancies tofu as much as I do -- it's not his fault as I really love tofu. But over the years, I've tried to introduce tofu as a meal by itself. He doesn't mind it, as long as it's between fortnights or longer. Most people avoid tofu as it is bland but the trick is really to let it take on a supporting role. The lead is usually taken up by some form of well-seasoned meat - preferably "soft" meat. For example, stir-fried minced meat or poultry, braised meat or poultry, or steamed fish.

Here's an easy one which only takes 10 minutes to cook.
Ground Turkey with Tofu

Ingredients:
(This quantity serves 4.)
1.5 pound ground turkey
5 oz baby portabello mushrooms, sliced
2 blocks of extra-firm tofu, halved length-wise and cut 6 segments across
2 tablespoons BBQ sauce
1 tablespoon minced ginger
2 stalks spring onions, chopped into tiny rings
Shaoxing wine
Kicap manis

1. Mix evenly the ground turkey with BBQ sauce and minced ginger. Let it sit for at least 15 minutes.
2. Heat olive oil on medium, add ground turkey. Stir-fry till meat is no longer red.
3. Add mushrooms and toss the saute pan to mix.
4. Add a dash of Shaoxing wine or sherry, and a round of dark soy sauce or kicap manis.
5. Cover with lid and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
6. In the same 5 minutes, arrange tofu on 4 dinner plates (basically half a block of tofu per plate), microwave each plate for 40 seconds.
7. Place all the plates next to each other. Bring saute pan to the plates and distribute equally.
8. Sprinkle chopped spring onions on each plate before serving.

You can tweak this dish with a different type of meat. I used ground turkey because it was the last "mince" in the freezer. Hoisin sauce works just as well as BBQ sauce. As for kicap manis, I highly recommend keeping a bottle in your pantry (for this and more). It can be found along most international aisles.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    briefly

    JL and S grew up in France and Malaysia respectively. They met while living in Singapore, stayed a year in the USA (Cambridge, MA) then the south of France, Malaysia, and are back again in the USA (New York, NY). 

    frenchinos at home is where we share some of our stories with friends, much like the living room, dine-in kitchen, or the timber-deck balcony which we've always wanted to have, which sounds most impossible where we live now. 

    Welcome and we're happy to have you here :)

    archives

    March 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    November 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010

    categories

    All
    15 Minute Meals
    15-minute Meals
    5 Minute Snacks
    All Things American
    All Things French
    All Things Malaysian
    All Things Singaporean
    Asian Recipes
    Baking Recipes
    Beef Recipes
    Carb Free Meals
    Carb-Free Meals
    Comfort Food
    Culinary School
    Desserts
    Easy Recipes
    Edible Mistakes
    Finger Food Recipes
    Fish Recipes
    Good Habits
    Hearty Meals
    Home
    Kitchenware
    Life
    Light Meals
    Marriage
    Noodles Recipes
    Pressure Cooker Recipes
    Salad Recipes
    Snacks
    Soup Recipes
    Stew Recipes
    Stuff
    Vegetarian Recipes

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.