And another yummy dinner :-)

[cyan_blue]

emmett_the_sane and I made a tag-team dinner last night... we took turns doing various steps of the cooking process.

And the result was pretty enough to photograph. Here are two pictures... one of the stir frying in process, the other of the finished dish.






This one's also from 1000 Vegetarian Recipes, called Black Bean Casserole.

Ingredients:

A block of bean curd, chopped into large-ish cubes
Vegetable oil
A carrot, chopped
1.5 cups of snow peas or long beans, chopped
1 can of baby corn, chopped
1 can of bamboo shoots, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1 cup purple cabbage, shredded (or any cabbage, but purple's pretty)
1 tbs soy sauce
2 tbs black bean sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp corn starch
9 oz Chinese rice noodles (or just use cooked rice)
salt

1. Boil the bean curd in lightly salted water for 2-3 minutes to firm it up, then drain.

2. Brown the bean curd in a pan with a bit of vegetable oil, then dry it off on paper towels.

3. Stir fry the carrots, snow peas/long beans, baby corn, bamboo shoots, and bell pepper for 2-3 minutes; add the cabbage and bean curd and stir-fry for 2 more minutes.

4. Stir in the black bean sauce, soy sauce, and sugar. Mix the corn starch into 6 tbs water, and stir this in to the vegetables as well. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and braise for 2-3 minutes, until the sauce thickens slightly.

5. (This step adds a lot of oil into the recipe. For healthier fare, just cook up some rice and serve it with the stir fry. But here's what the recipe actually said, and what we did...) Heat up some oil for deep-frying in a large pan. Deep-fry the noodles in batches until puffed up and lightly golden. Drain on paper towels, and serve with the stir-fry.

BTW, uncooked rice noodles make great cat toys...

Enjoy!

Comments

[polytwo.livejournal.com]

Yum!

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Workin' on those leftovers now...

[melanie.livejournal.com]

~drools~

oh, and i've been craving some tofu really bad lately. i'm going to show this to lorelei and see if she wants to make it with me this weekend.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Cool! :-) Hope you all enjoy it.

[cougarpants.livejournal.com]

god that looks good!! thanks for the recipe!

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome! It's so yummy!

What she didn't mention...

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

What she didn't mention was that frying the rice noodles is FUN! They puff up like some kind of plant growing in fast-forward.
And they are quite yummy, if tricky to eat. It does add a lot of oil, but I think that the novelty of them is well worth it for the odd occasion.

Re: What she didn't mention...

[steelmagnoliaca.livejournal.com]

Think it would work to use the nonstick cooking spray instead of some if not all the oil?

Re: What she didn't mention...

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Not sure... worth trying...