Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chickpea tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Also called chickpea tofu or shan tofu, it is more similar to polenta than tofu, as I'll explain. The wonderful thing about this chickpea tofu recipe, apart from the fact that it's a wonderful soy free. Burmese (chickpea) tofu is made by cooking split pea flour or chickpea flour and water batter until I make my chickpea tofu with chickpea flour and with less liquid so it is a sturdier, and quick version.
Chickpea Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Chickpea Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chickpea tofu using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chickpea Tofu:
- Take 200 ml Chickpeas (canned)
- Take 100 ml Katakuriko
- Make ready 3 heaping tablespoons White sesame seeds
- Prepare 600 ml Dashi soup stock (on the lighter, milder side)
- Prepare 1 dash Salt
As someone who eats a predominantly plant-based diet, you can imagine that I've enjoyed a long history of consuming soy-based foods. Chickpea flour tofu is truly a game changer. It is fast and easy to make, and both versatile and delicious to the extreme! This chickpea flour "tofu" contains no soy but delivers a creamy-firm texture similar to tofu and is easy to pull off at home.
Steps to make Chickpea Tofu:
- Grind the white sesame seeds with a mortar and pestle or similar utensil.
- Pulverize the chickpeas into a smooth paste with a mortar and pestle or similar utensil, then strain through a sieve.
- Combine the sesame seeds, katakuriko, dashi soup stock and salt in a pot, and mix well. Heat over low heat, and mix with a wooden spoon or similar utensil.
- After stirring for about 20 minutes, it should start to harden into a thick paste. Add the chickpeas from Step 3 and combine until even.
- Lightly dampen the inside of a container, and pour in the mixture. Wet your hands to even out the surface. Place the container in ice water, and chill to harden (or, place in the refrigerator after it cools to the touch).
- Remove from the container, wet a knife, and cut into desired serving sizes. Try it with wasabi and soy sauce.
Stir the chickpeas and tofu into the curry and let them heat through. Burmese tofu is made from chickpea flour, meaning it still packs a hefty dose of protein, but without soy. It holds its shape well and has a creamy and silky texture, similar to silken tofu. While tofu is an excellent option for plant-based protein, there is Certified integrative nutritionist, Elissa Goodman recently shared this recipe with us and the star of the show is chickpea tofu. My tofu has a golden glow as it's loaded with turmeric.
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