Korean
Korean Braised Tofu
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Korean Braised Tofu is Korean 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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Slice the tofu into thick planks and pat dry.
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Heat the neutral oil in a large skillet and pan-fry the tofu until golden on both sides, about 4 minutes per side.
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Stir the soy sauce, gochugaru, garlic, ginger, sugar, half the scallions, and 1/2 cup water into a braising sauce.
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Pour the sauce around the tofu and simmer, spooning it over, until the sauce reduces and coats the tofu, about 6 minutes.
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Drizzle with sesame oil and sprinkle with sesame seeds and the remaining scallions.
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Serve over warm rice.
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Serve it with
A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Korean Braised Tofu, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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. Korean Braised Tofu carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps) |
| 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
- 360 kcal
- Protein
- 18 g
- Carbs
- 40 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 8 g
- Sodium
- 780 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Korean Braised Tofu takes about 25 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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