Recipe

Warm Tofu Salad with Rice Vermicelli recipe

Celebrity chef, author & nutritionist, Janella Purcell, cooks a healthy & tasty Warm Tofu Salad with Rice Vermicelli over Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes on highly rated TV show Good Chef Bad Chef.

As seen on Season 3 of Good Chef Bad Chef

Watch the recipe video (above right).

Ingredients:

  • 2 stalks lemongrass, inner pink parts finely chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • ½ teaspoon palm sugar
  • ½ teaspoon white pepper, ground
  • 4 slices firm tofu about 2 cm thick, cut on the diagonal

Dressing

  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 long red chilli
  • 1 teaspoon palm sugar
  • 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons filtered water
  • 3 tablespoons fish sauce
  • ½-1 tablespoon sunflower oil
  • ¼ cup organic peanuts, roughly crushed

Salad

  • 2 cup iceberg or cos lettuce, finely sliced
  • 1 cucumber, julienned
  • 1 cup bean sprouts
  • 1 carrot, julienned
  • ½ cup each of Thai basil & Vietnamese mint
  • 4 small bundles of rice noodle vermicelli soaked in hot water til soft then drained

Method:

For the marinade, mix the first 6 the first 6 ingredients together in a bowl. Pour over the tofu and set aside.

For the dressing – in a mortar and pestle pound the garlic and chilli together (or simply chop) then add the rest of the ingredients. Set aside.

For the salad, toss all the ingredients together in a bowl then divide evenly between 4 individual dishes. then pour over the dressing.

On a hot barbie, cook your tofu in the oil until golden on both sides. Pour the dressing over the salad just before serving then top with the tofu. Garnish with the peanuts.

See video (above right) of Adrian cooking his Lamb Fillets Wrapped in Pancetta and Janella whipping up a Warm Tofu Salad with Rice Vermicelli.

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*Recipe by celebrity chef Janella Purcell as seen on popular cooking series Good Chef Bad Chef. Image copyright Good Chef Bad Chef. Video copyright Channel TEN.

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