Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade koya freeze-dried tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Add the freeze dried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, shishito peppers, sugar, soy sauce, sake, and salt. Showing how to make traditional juicy sweet Koya-Tofu using the microwave. Kouya dofu is freeze dried tofu.
Homemade Koya Freeze-Dried Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Homemade Koya Freeze-Dried Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade koya freeze-dried tofu using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Koya Freeze-Dried Tofu:
- Take 1 block Tofu (300 g)
- Prepare 1 Aburaage
- Prepare 1 tsp Dashi stock granules
- Make ready 1 tbsp Sake
- Make ready 1 tbsp Sugar (or mirin)
- Prepare 1 tbsp Soy sauce
- Get 1 Water
A traditional food from ancient Japan. Koya tofu (also known as "kori tofu") is a traditional Japanese food dating back to ancient times. It is highly nutritious and rich in protein, hence its fame as the "meat of the fields." Koya Dofu is a tofu that has been freeze-dried and aged. It is made with more concentrated soybeans and is rich in nutritions by eating little amount.
Steps to make Homemade Koya Freeze-Dried Tofu:
- Place the packaged tofu as is into the freezer.
- Thaw Step 1 and drain the liquid, being careful not to break it apart.
- Cut Step 2 into bite-sized pieces. (In the photo, I sliced the tofu thinly.) Cut the aburaage into 3 mm wide strips.
- Put the dashi granules, sake, sugar, soy sauce, and water into a pot and bring to a boil. Once boiling, place the tofu.
- Simmer for 4-5 minutes on medium-low heat. Flip them over and simmer for another 3 minutes. Be careful not to let it come to a full boil.
- Lastly, scatter with the aburaage and simmer for 1 minute to finish. Cover with a lid until they have cooled (to allow the flavors to meld).
Frozen tofu is one of the best kept secrets of tofu cuisine. Once you discover how to freeze sliced tofu, you may never use fresh tofu again. Sliced frozen tofu is probably the best kept secret in the world of tofu cuisine. There are some tofu cookbooks that never even mention frozen tofu at all. A wide variety of freeze dried tofu options are available to you, such as part, drying process, and style.
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