Vietnamese
Dau Phu Ran (Fried Tofu with Scallion Fish Sauce)
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Dau Phu Ran (Fried Tofu with Scallion Fish Sauce) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pat the tofu dry and cut each block into thick rectangles.
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Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium high heat and fry the tofu in batches, turning, until golden and crisp on all sides, about 8 minutes, then drain on paper.
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Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the oil, add the sliced scallions and let them sizzle for 10 seconds.
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Stir the fish sauce with the sugar, minced garlic, sliced chili, a squeeze of lime and 2 tablespoons of water.
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Lay the tofu on a plate, spoon over the scallion oil, drizzle with the fish sauce dressing and serve with rice. In Hanoi the same fried tofu is just as often dipped in mam tom.
Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Dau Phu Ran (Fried Tofu with Scallion Fish Sauce), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Dau Phu Ran (Fried Tofu with Scallion Fish Sauce) carries soy and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes) |
| Fish | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 380 kcal
- Protein
- 31 g
- Carbs
- 12 g
- Fat
- 27 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 710 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Dau Phu Ran (Fried Tofu with Scallion Fish Sauce) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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