Peanut Tofu

Peanut tofu with green beans and eggplant has a sweet, nutty flavor. It's a perfect meal served with rice or added as an aromatic side dish.

Peanut Tofu and Recipe Creation

I like to start out each recipe with a real plan. Usually, I’ve decided which flavors will work well together. Additionally, I have researched and/or experimented the best techniques on how to put things together.

Seasonings and proportions may shift. However, by the time I am actually cooking, I know what I’m doing.

Once in a while, that doesn’t happen. Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of a recipe and realize that things need to change.

That’s how this peanut tofu recipe evolved.

And even when I thought I had come to a conclusion, I still changed my mind. Before, while thinking about how to serve the eggplant, I started with it cut in strips.

My goal was to make it more like the shape of the green beans. After that, I then decided I liked it better diced, like the tofu.

Peanut Tofu - Firm or Extra-Firm Tofu?

Change and exploration captures the nature of cooking. However, I should note that lots of people have very strong opinions about right and wrong of different types of tofu on the internet (shocker!).

I am recommending a firm tofu for this peanut tofu recipe because I think it absorbs the marinade a little better than extra-firm tofu. 

But people have furious debates in food blogs about firm tofu’s right to exist in the world. If your political beliefs will not allow you to use firm tofu, by all means, replace with extra-firm.

Is this peanut tofu recipe right for your body type?

This dish is perfect for people with a qi deficiency body type. The herbs, chicken, and spinach warm the body from the inside out.

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