Tags
carrots, Collard Greens, Cook, Garlic, Lime (fruit), Olive oil, Quinoa, Soy sauce, Tofu, vegan, Zest (ingredient)
I came across the ingredients for this recipe a while back. I made a few changes to suit me and thought my kids love tofu I was a little surprised that it was such it was a hit in this house! We all do the vegan thing every now and then for stretches as long as a month. Just may be time for another…
Ingredients:
- 1 Package of extra firm Tofu
Mint Lime Sauce
- 6 Tbs Sugar
- 6 Tbs Soy Sauce
- Juice of one Lime
- Zest of above lime
- 5 Cloves of Garlic
- 1 tsp Salt
- 10 Mint Leaves sliced thinly
Quinoa
- 2 cups uncooked Quinoa
- Zest of one Lime
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp Salt
- 3 Cups Water
Veggies
- 2 Bunches of Collard Greens, washed and chopped
- 2 cups shredded carrots
- 1/3 cup Water
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 3 Tbls Lime Juice
Directions:
- Combine all ingredients for the sauce in a small bowl, stir. Set aside
- Add all ingredients for the quinoa in a dutch oven over med-high heat. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer on low for 20 minutes. Turn off, let sit 15 minutes.
- While the quinoa is cooking you can start cutting your tofu in chunks. Add them to a skillet over med-high heat. ( you may add a touch of EVOO if you like – I find it impossible to NOT use it cooking tofu!) Be sure to “press” the water out with your spatula. Cook on the first side for 15 minutes. repeat process.
- Using a metal spatula carefully scrape the yummy browned tofu crust off the bottom on the pan and turn each over – it’s okay if you screw up just make sure that you scrape that yummy goodness of the bottom – the crunchy bits ROCK in the end – TRUST me!
- While your Tofu if browning you can chop your greens.
- Heat a large skillet or pan over HIGH. Add to it the water, lime juice and salt. First put the shredded carrots in and then the greens. Cover. Check on them in 3 minutes. If you need to add a bit more water, do so. You want them still bright green (and the carrots orange) but slightly cooked.
- When your tofu is nice and crispy and hot pour your sauce in the pan and stir it all up. Remove from heat.
- Serve the veggies on a bed of quinoa and the tofu on top of that.
- ENJOY!!
this looks delicious.
please invite me to dinner, and i shall bring the wine. 🙂 x
Well Hellooo!! I thought about you when I posted this one!
I just watched a documentary and think we may start eating a plant based diet so you’ll be seeing more of these 🙂
What is is that you eat?
Amazing I love all the ingredients but together I bet they are amazing!
It was so good! You will have to try the recipe!
This was absolutely delicious! Thanks for the invite! : )
No problem Grandma! Thank you for joining us! 🙂