Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tofu katsu curry. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
With a mildly spiced and creamy curry sauce, this dish makes a fantastic comfort food recipe to warm the cockles on a chilly night. Ditch the take-out and make your own Tofu Katsu Curry at home! Enjoy the golden crispy tofu surrounded with fragrant and delicious Japanese-style curry sauce. This recipe is a vegan spin on the classic Japanese Katsu Curry, replacing the meat with tofu.
Tofu Katsu Curry is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Tofu Katsu Curry is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tofu katsu curry using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tofu Katsu Curry:
- Prepare 200 g short grain white rice, washed
- Make ready 280 ml water to cook white rice
- Take 300 g extra firm tofu
- Prepare 1 medium eggs
- Make ready 2 tbsp plain flour, seasoned with salt and white pepper
- Take 60 g panko crumb
- Make ready 1 large onion
- Make ready 750 ml sunflower or vegetables oil to deep fry tofu
- Take 1 clove garlic
- Get 2 tsp grated ginger
- Make ready 1 medium carrots
- Make ready 1 medium courgettes
- Prepare 1/2 apple, grated
- Prepare 2 tbsp sake
- Take 100 g curry roux blocks
- Get 2 tsp curry powder
- Take 60 ml vegetable/corn/sunflower oil
- Get fukushin-zuke or takuan Japanese pickles for condiments
Here is our veggie and vegan tofu katsu curry recipe! Crispy slabs of tofu katsu enjoyed with some Japanese curry. I used my favourite Japanese curry cubes for this recipe and had it with some steamed short grain rice. Curry is one of my favourite comfort foods and love Japanese-style curry.
Instructions to make Tofu Katsu Curry:
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- Finely chop all the vegetables. Heat vegetable oil in a large sauce pan with medium-high heat and sauté, onion, garlic, grated ginger and carrots for about 7-8 minutes. Add courgettes and curry powder and then keep stirring for about 2 minutes taking care not burning. Then add sake and cook for about 1 minute to evaporate alcohol.
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- Add water into the pan with vegetables and bring back to a boil then turn down the heat to medium-low and add curry roux mix by breaking them up. Stir it well until all the roux dissolved. Once all the roux block has dissolved, add grated apple and simmer for about 15-20 minutes by stirring from time to time.
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- While cooking curry sauce, prepare tofu katsu. Cut tofu into 1cm thick rectangular cakes. Wrap each tofu cakes with kitchen paper and press to soak up excess moisture. Dust each tofu cakes with seasoned flour and then dip with whisked egg then coat with panko crumbs making sure all the surface are covered with panko crumbs completely.
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- Heat oil in a deep-frying pan or a wok to 170C and then slide tofu cakes into the pan to deep fry then until golden colour. This should be about 2-3 minutes. Take them out onto layers of kitchen papers.
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- Place the cooked rice and tofu katsu cakes on top of rice in large bowls or pasta plates. Pour the curry sauce sideways over a third of tofu katsu, so that two-thirds is dry, and one-third is covered with sauce. Place the fukushin-zuke or any pickled vegetables on the side.
I used my favourite Japanese curry cubes for this recipe and had it with some steamed short grain rice. Curry is one of my favourite comfort foods and love Japanese-style curry. This fully vegetarian version of the classic katsu curry is sure to please even the most voracious meat-eater. Crispy tofu sits centre stage surrounded by delicious and aromatic curry sauce and plenty of vegetables. Perfect for lunch or dinner whenever you get that veggie feeling for katsu curry.
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