the truculent vegetable

Yesterday I still felt super inspired to cook so I made a few things...

First up was this random soup thing. I sautéed shallots, garlic and ginger. Then I added the vegetable broth and Korean chili paste (I bought some for kimchi. Will have a post about that once it's all fermented and ready to actually eat). I then put in reconstituted mushrooms (reconstituted in soy sauce), normal mushrooms, broccoli and cabbage. After a minute or so I added the noddles.



Around 4:30 I got really hungry so I just threw some tofu into the oven.



This is supposed to be like fried tofu only it's baked to make it healthier. Just pre-heat the oven to 400C, cut the tofu into squares, toss it in a bowl with some oil (I used peanut oil) and a bit of salt then put it on a pan in the oven. Flip them over after 10 mins and wait another 10 mins and then presto! Serve with soy sauce.

Now actually, I kinda lied. I was going to make couscous for dinner and I thought the tofu would be great with the couscous. only, the tofu finished cooking first and I left the couscous until later when I was following one of my multiple hockey teams.

THE COUSCOUS


(I promise i'll get better at plating my food before I take a picture of it. I'm still not used to making it actually look presentable)

What I used

1/3 cup veggie broth
1/3 couscous

Cut up veggies (red onions, red peppers, broccoli, mushrooms in my case)
minced garlic
cayenne
lime juice

olive oil for frying the veggies

Start off by cooking the couscous. It's very quick. Boil veggie broth. When it's boiled put the couscous in. Turn off the burner, put the lid on the pot and leave the pot on the burner until we need the couscous later.

While the couscous is sitting there soaking up all that veggie broth, fry the veggies (and the garlic). I really like the veggies not-mushy so I cook them at a fairly high heat until the veggies are quite brown. Add the cayenne at some point in there. Once there veggies are pretty fried, add the lime juice. Fry another min or so.

Once done, take your couscous, fluff it up a bit, put in a bowl and add the veggies on top. Voila.