Our Chinese Sunday Revival: Tofu in sweet and sour tomato sauce

So, she really was out of fashion, the good old sweet and sour sauce. After misunderstood for years as the epitome of Asian cuisine, it finally ended up as a viscous finished sauce with pineapple and bamboo pieces in the glass on supermarket shelves. Tragic.

In addition, we had really eaten long-Sunday Sundays with mom and dad at the Chinese around the corner baked pork or duck in (German) sweet and sour. Suddenly "Rest of Asia" slowly arrived in Germany and enchanted us among other things with Thai curries in coconut sauce, Vietnamese noodle soups and sushi - definitely bad times for the notorious Chinese flavor.

Now I have them Rediscovered with delight. Because the child loves sweet and sour. And the child loves tofu. Do not ask me why, but he's crazy about it. Honestly. Never in my life would he have expected a seven-year-old boy in a Yoda costume to throw away his laser sword, pull his arms up and cheerfully open his dumbfounded father. "Dad, there's the best thing in the world today - tofu in a delicious sauce!" The vegetables then seem to be just so very friendly ...

And so we came to our perfect Sunday lunch revival family meal: tofu with roasted vegetables in sweet and sour tomato sauce.

My version is prepared not just with a dollop of tomato paste, but with a whole pack of passed tomatoes. So it is deep red, aromatic and not at all glibberig (if someone should have feared). For this you fry in a separate pan chopped vegetables, tofu or meat strips sharp. Both are then merged before serving. Delicious with Basmati rice.

We wish you 10,000th lunch time!

Here's how it works for 4 servings:

Sweet and sour tomato sauce
4 cm ginger root (about thumb thick) and 2 garlic cloves Peel and finely chop or grate. Heat gently in a small saucepan 1 tablespoon of peanut oil (or other neutral oil) and sauté the ginger and garlic. When it starts to smell intense, add 500 g of passed tomato and 4 tablespoons of water . Simmer gently in a mild heat. Peel 1 onion and cut into thin slices. Clean and slice 1 handful of mushrooms . Add onions and mushrooms to the sauce and simmer for about 10 minutes. Add 4 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar (or rice vinegar) and 1 heaped tablespoons of brown sugar (or palm sugar) to the sauce. Season with salt and 2 tablespoons soy sauce and let it steep for a few more minutes.

Tofu (or Meat) and Vegetables
400 g tofu natural diced. Wash 800g vegetables to taste (e.g., red and yellow peppers, carrots, leeks, onions, zucchini, mushrooms), cut into bite-sized pieces.Add the tofu cubes, with 2-3 splashes soy sauce season and continue to fry something.

Before serving, give the sweet and sour tomato sauce over the vegetables and stir well. For a swab garnish appetizing greens with finely chopped spring onions .

Gourmet guerrilla - tofu in sweet and sour tomato sauce