Recipe of Thomas Keller Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans:

1. Make ready 14 oz extra firm tofu (1 brick)
2. Make ready 12 oz green beans, washed & cut in 2” pieces
3. Make ready 1/2 cup toasted cashews (unsalted)
4. Prepare 14 oz unsweetened coconut milk
5. Make ready 2 ” ginger, peeled & grated
6. Take 2 garlic cloves, minced
7. Take 1.5 tbsp soy sauce
8. Take 2 tbsp molasses
9. Make ready 2 tbsp dried scallions
10. Get 3 tbsp oil (avoid olive oil this time)
11. Prepare 1 tbsp rice vinegar
12. Prepare to taste salt & pepper

Steps to make Tofu in coconut/cashew sauce & fried green beans:

1. Halve the tofu brick horizontally and place on paper towels to absorb as much water as possible. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan on high heat, until it glistens. Season the tofu on all sides with salt / pepper and fry at least 4 minutes per side, or until golden and crispy. Be careful not to move it except for flipping, to avoid it from breaking. Reserve.
2. Add 1 tbsp oil to the same pan and sauté the green beans for 3-4 minutes, or until blisters appear. Place in a bowl and reserve.
3. One more tbsp oil into the pan, and this time add the minced ginger and garlic. Sauté until fragrant (30 seconds, more or less). Add coconut milk, soy sauce, molasses. Turn down heat to low and reduce the sauce to half, stirring constantly, until it thickens and becomes syrupy (this will take some 12-15 minutes).
4. Add cashews and cook in the sauce for 2 minutes. Cube the tofu and add to the sauce, mixing carefully to coat the cubes without breaking them.
5. To serve, toss the green beans with rice wine and dried scallions. Serve the whole thing in a bowl with your favorite starch (we used steamed basmati rice). Yummers!

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