The Joyful Pear’s peanut salad bowl packed with flavour

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Just due to the fact we are attempting to eat healthily doesn’t indicate we have to sacrifice flavour, and plant-primarily based foods can be just as delicious as their vegetarian or animal protein equivalents, as this peanut salad bowl displays.

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PEANUT SATAY TOFU POT

These make the ideal snack, or a light-weight lunch on the go, or can be easily fleshed out to make a delicious evening meal. In this article we use cooked quinoa as the foundation, because of to its higher protein content material, and incorporate deliciously salty-sweet tofu on major

Serves 3 (Takes 15 minutes, for a longer period if cooking your individual quinoa)

Components
½ a thumb-measurement piece of new ginger
4 tablespoons peanut butter
200ml warm h2o
2 tablespoons tamari/soy sauce
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons maple syrup
250g firm tofu
1 x 250g pack of cooked quinoa (or you can cook dinner your have)
1 medium carrot
2 spring onions/scallions
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon floor black pepper
Juice of ½ a lime
4 tablespoons roasted peanuts
10g contemporary coriander or parsley

Method

1 Finely grate the ginger. Combine alongside one another the peanut butter, warm drinking water, tamari/soy sauce, vinegar, ginger and maple syrup right up until it is awesome and sleek. Minimize the tofu into squares approx. 4cm x 4cm and 2cm thick.

2 Heat a non-adhere pan on a significant heat. At the time scorching, increase the tofu squares and cook dinner for 3-4 minutes on just about every aspect right up until they get started to flip brown or golden. Include 50 percent the peanut sauce and go it all-around the pan speedily to ensure all the tofu is properly coated on both sides. Depart to cook for a even further moment on each individual aspect, then get rid of the tofu from the pan and set aside.

3 Set the quinoa into a massive bowl. Grate the carrot, finely slice the spring onions/scallions, and increase these to the cooked quinoa along with the salt, black pepper and lime juice. Mix effectively.

4 Divide the quinoa concerning a few bowls, pour the remaining sauce on top rated and blend a little. Provide with 2 slices of tofu for every person, sprinkled with toasted peanuts and fresh new coriander. Provide a very little of the remaining sauce on the facet.

Recipe from The Content Health and fitness Strategy, by David and Stephen Flynn, released by Penguin Life. thehappypear.ie