Recipe from The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook: Beef Satay with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce, pg 143 (modified for tofu)
Time: ~30minutes cooking / overnight marinating
Servings: 2 dinners + 4 lunches
Rating: 5/5
INGREDIENTS
Satay
2 boxes of firm tofu, pressed, sliced
1 cup brown sugar
4 tsp fish sauce
4 tsp Sriracha
Dipping sauce
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup hot water
6 tsp lime juice
6 tsp Sriracha sauce
4 tsp fish sauce
1 tbs brown sugar
4 garlic cloves, minced
4 tbs fresh cilantro
1 scallion, sliced thin (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
Satay
1. Slice tofu ~1cm thick slices and press.
2. Mix brown sugar, fish sauce, and Sriracha until well combined.
3. Marinate pressed tofu in the fridge for several hours to overnight. Flip the tofu box to ensure even marination.
Cooking
4. Heat olive oil (or other cooking oil) in flat bottomed pan until hot. Fry both sides of the tofu until browned, 3-4min for each side.
Dipping sauce
5. Whisk peanut butter, hot water, lime, Sriracha, fish sauce, brown sugar, and garlic in a bowl. Top with cilantro and scallion.
6. Top fried tofu with the dipping sauce.
Thoughts
This is a fast recipe and easy to start marinating and get back to cooking at a later date. Pressing the tofu also really helps it absorb all of the flavor of the sauce. The tofu and peanut butter make it a filling vegetarian option.