Korean
Soft Tofu Stew
Soft Tofu Stew is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 packs silken tofu
- 2 tbsp gochugaru
- 1 tbsp gochujang
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 onion
- 1 zucchini
- 6 oz shiitake mushrooms
- 4 scallions
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 large eggs
- 4 cups vegetable broth
How to cook it
- Heat the sesame oil in a pot and cook the gochugaru, gochujang, garlic, and onion until fragrant and deep red, about 3 minutes.
- Add the vegetable broth and soy sauce and bring to a simmer.
- Stir in the zucchini and mushrooms and cook until softened, about 6 minutes.
- Spoon in the silken tofu in large curds and simmer gently, about 4 minutes.
- Crack the eggs into the bubbling stew and let them poach, about 2 minutes.
- Scatter with scallions and serve with rice.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Soft Tofu Stew carries gluten, eggs, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Japchae Glass Noodle Stir-Fry |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Beef Bulgogi |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses, Vegetables, and Egg
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Soft Tofu Stew takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on tofu, egg, zucchini, and mushroom.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
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