Tofu with sesame & miso noodles

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Vegan Prep in 10 New 6 plants Low sat fat

Tofu with sesame & miso noodles

Prep time: 0 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Cuisine: Japanese
Food group: Vegan

Tofu with sesame & miso noodles

Cooking Instructions

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  1. Preheat the oven to 200C / fan 180C / gas mark 6 and boil a kettle. Heat a large dry frying pan on a medium-high heat. Add the cashew nuts and cook for 2-3 mins, moving around the pan often. Once toasted, transfer to a side plate to cool.
  2. Thinly slice the red pepper. Thinly slice the spring onions. Peel the ginger and finely chop. Peel the garlic and thinly slice. Peel and thinly slice the brown onion. Half the sugar snaps lengthways. Drain the tofu and pat dry with paper towel. Cut the tofu into small 1cm cubes.
  3. Re-heat a medium-sized frying pan with 1tsp oil on a medium-high heat. Add the tofu and cook for 10 mins until turning crisp, season with sea salt and black pepper. Turn off the heat and keep warm.
  4. Cut the lime in half. Make the sesame miso dressing; into a small bowl add: the miso, maple syrup, the juice form half the lime and the sesame oil. Mix.
  5. Heat 1tsp oil in a second large frying pan on a medium-high. Add the brown onion, garlic, ginger and 3/4 spring onion, cook for 2 mins then add the red pepper and cook for a further 3-4 mins, then turn off the heat.
  6. Pour boiling water into a medium-sized saucepan, until 3/4 full, bring to the boil and plunge the brown rice noodles and sugar snaps into the pan. Gently separate the noodles with a fork and boil for 3-4 mins, then drain. Add the noodles and sugar snaps to veggies in the pan. Mix all together. Add the sesame miso dressing.
  7. Serve the veggie and noodles between two warm plates. Scatter the tofu over the top, garnish with remaining spring onion and cashew nuts. Squeeze over the juice form the remaining lime, amount to taste.

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