Tofu and baby corn stir fry
It isn’t just vegetarian; it’s a vegan dish — no meat and no animal by-products whatsoever. No, we’re not turning vegan. We’re not even going vegetarian. But no-meat vegetable dishes are great accompaniments to meat and fish dishes. We had this tofu and baby corn stir fry with fried alumahan several days ago.
What is alumahan? Oh, it’s the name for any of several varieties of mackerel.
Is that canned corn? No, it’s fresh baby corn, and you’ll find them in the vegetable section of most public markets and supermarkets these days. Unlike canned corn, which are ready to eat straight out the can, fresh baby corn needs a small amount of preparation.
Before using baby corn in a stir fry, cut them and simmer in a little water for about 10 minutes to soften the white core. Save the boiling liquid, cool, stir in a teaspoonful of tapioca or corn starch, and add to the stir fry if you like it with a little thickish sauce so that you don’t lose any of the corn’s flavor.
Serves 4.
Ingredients
1 cake of firm tofu, about 300 grams, cut into 2-inch cubes and fried until golden (see related entry)
2 tbsps. of cooking oil
4 cloves of garlic, minced
1 small onion, thinly sliced
12 to 15 baby corn, cut and boiled
2 tbsps. of oyster sauce
1 tbsp. of patis (fish sauce)
2 tbsp. of Kecap manis
freshly ground pepper
chopped onion leaves for garnish
Cooking procedure
Heat the cooking oil. Saute the garlic and onion just until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the fried tofu and baby corn. Pour in the patis, oyster sauce and Kecap manis (and the starch solution, if using). Add a generous amount of freshly ground pepper. Stir fry just until blended. Transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with chopped onion leaves. Serve at once.
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Just a heads up… the dish isn’t vegan since oyster sauce and patis are made from oysters and fish
You can get vegetarian oyster sauce (made from mushrooms) in Chinese grocers. I don’t think there’s any substitute for patis, but at a pinch vegans can use normal soy sauce or fermented soy beans for the saltiness.
Hmmm, mukhang masarap!
I’ll try this when I get the chance to buy fresh baby corn!
Thanks again, Ms. Connie!
Rose, LOL, vegans don’t even use patis? I certainly didn’t know that! I thought the only animal products that vegans avoid are those associated with animal cruelty.
Simple lang lyan, Crisma, pero sarap!
Yeah, strict vegans don’t use anything that’s derived from animals. That even includes honey, red food colouring (E120, the sort made out of cochineal insects) and anything made out of leather. My vegetarian friends don’t mind a bit of fish sauce, but they don’t take too much of it or leave it out when they cook.
hi!just want to share about vegetarianism.There are different types of vegetarian.There are pesco,lacto-ovo, ovo and the strict vegan.I’m lacto-ovo vegetarian which allows me to drink animal milk and eat eggs.Pesco vegetarian eats fish and vegetables only.While a strict vegan doesn’t take any food or material made of animals. There are Soy Patis and Vegetarian Oyster sauce available in very rare stores.
Rose, food coloring made from insects? I don’t even want to think how the color is extracted.
Joi, wow thanks for the info. I think I can be a pesco vegetarian.
Maybe LOL
that’s the reason why I don’t want to be vegan, they don’t even use salt.