I’ve
ever introduced Taiwanese Zha Jiang Mian (炸醬麵) before, it’s a very common street food in
Taiwan consisting of noodles topped with stir-fried pork mince and soybean paste.
I do love the meaty taste of Zha Jiang Mian, but this classic noodles dish can
be transformed to veggie version and it also tastes divine. This time I used Cauldron Foods marinated tofu pieces, they are
already cooked with flavour so I don’t even need to add on too many sauces, and
they are really convenient for making sauce mixture of Zha Jiang Mian
particularly for this meatless Veganuary option.
Ingredients
-80g Cauldron Foods marinated tofu pieces.
-1 tbsp Dou Ban Jiang (豆瓣醬)/ Soybean paste.
(I used Taiwanese one as it contains completed beans
inside. Alternatively, you can find Lee Kum Kee soybean paste at oriental
shops.)
-2 cloves of garlic, chopped.
-1 tbsp soy sauce.
-1 tsp sugar.
-1/2 cup of water to taste.
-Chopped spring onions and basil to garnish.
Method
-Heat vegetable oil in a non-stick frying pan
over medium heat, add garlic and stir fry until fragrance.
-Add Dou Ban Jiang/soybean paste, stir fry over low
heat until aromatic.
-Add soy sauce, sugar, tofu pieces and toss
everything together.
-Add water to taste, let it simmer for 10
minutes over the lowest heat.
-Pour above tofu mixture over cooked noodles, garnish with spring
onions and basil leaves.
其實我是米飯擁護者，但近日的貼文都是以麵食居多，實在是因為煮麵要比煮飯來得快速許多啊！這次則用了Cauldron的豆腐干做了素版的炸醬麵，因為這款豆腐本身就已經有調理過了，所以豆瓣醬等醬料都可以斟酌減半，不用燉煮太久，稍微收汁就可以拌在乾麵上，算是簡單又快速的一道麵攤小品。(今天沒有特別弄溏心蛋，不然每次一擺都喧賓奪主；然後麵條我有特別「梳」過，終於擺起來比較整齊了，只是這梳的功力還要多練習，我自己是覺得沒有想像中好梳哈。)
