Meera Sodha’s Recipe For Jacket Sweet Potato With Smoked Tofu, Slaw And Crispy Chilli Mayo | Meera Sodha Recipes

No-waste cooking comes successful galore forms. It doesn’t person to mean cooking banana peel. To me, it intends finishing a container of potatoes earlier they turn eyes, and making nan astir of that past awkward spot of cabbage. Even uncovering a cheeky caller measurement pinch nan sauces and condiments already successful nan fridge. Using ingredients you’ve already sewage to make a caller look is, successful my opinion, nan astir “no waste” of them all. So here’s support from maine to make substitutes – herb for herb, veg for veg, aliases thing you’ve already sewage – to make this look activity for you.

Jacket saccharine murphy pinch smoked tofu, slaw and crispy chilli mayo

If you are making substitutes, you could usage mean patient tofu alternatively of smoked, a spoon of sweetener alternatively of mirin, achromatic cabbage alternatively of red, immoderate chilli lipid alternatively of nan peanut aliases tofu type (use to taste, because nan power will vary) and immoderate soft herb alternatively of coriander. Of course, it won’t sensation precisely nan same, but it will still activity well.

Prep 15 min
Cook 50 min
Serves 4

4 mean saccharine potatoes (1kg)
5 tbsp extra-virgin oliva oil
1 tsp good oversea salt
450g smoked tofu, trim into 2cm cubes
2 tbsp ray soy sauce
2 tbsp mirin
400g reddish cabbage (ie, half a mini one)
Juice of 3 limes, to get 5 tbsp
100g mayonnaise, vegan if request be
1 tbsp chipotle en adobo
4-6 tbsp peanuts successful chilli oil, aliases peanut, kohlrabi and tofu chilli crisp
30g caller coriander, leaves and tender stalks, chopped

Heat nan oven to 220C (200C fan)/425F/gas 7. Wash nan saccharine potatoes, put them successful a bowl, past swipe each complete pinch a tablespoonful of nan oliva lipid and a half-teaspoon of oversea salt. Put connected a baking tray and roast for 25 minutes.

In nan meantime, put nan tofu successful a mean bowl, adhd 2 tablespoons of oil, nan soy condiment and mirin, and flip to coat. When nan saccharine potatoes person had 25 minutes, adhd nan tofu to nan tray and roast some for a further 15 minutes, until nan tofu is aureate and nan saccharine potatoes are crisp.

Finely portion nan reddish cabbage, put it successful nan quiet tofu bowl, past flip pinch 5 tablespoons of lime juice, nan past 2 tablespoons of oliva lipid and a half-teaspoon of salt. In a mini bowl, operation nan mayonnaise and chipotle.

To serve, divided unfastened nan baked saccharine potatoes, spoon a 4th of nan tofu operation successful each one, past apical pinch a dollop of chipotle mayonnaise and a fistful of slaw. Finish pinch a generous spoonful of peanut chilli crisp and a bully sprinkling of coriander.

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