How to Diet Eating on a Dime Delicious Mackerel and Deep Fried Tofu with a Thick and Sweet Vinegar Sauce

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Delicious Mackerel and Deep Fried Tofu with a Thick and Sweet Vinegar Sauce. I wanted to make it more delicious as well as eat more vegetables with it, so I thought of this recipe. It will have a more strong taste if you add grated garlic to the B ingredients.. Juicy mackerel marinated in soy sauce, garlic and ginger, and deep-fried to a golden crisp!

Add the green onion, garlic, chile and black pepper, and stir to combine.

The cispy fried tofu was really tasty- crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.

I made the sweet chilli sauce but it turned out very sour so I added more sugar and some salt to it.

You can cook Delicious Mackerel and Deep Fried Tofu with a Thick and Sweet Vinegar Sauce using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Delicious Mackerel and Deep Fried Tofu with a Thick and Sweet Vinegar Sauce

  1. It’s 5 slice of Mackerel (boneless filet with skin).

  2. You need 1 piece of Atsuage.

  3. You need 1/2 of cube Red paprika (cut it into about 1 cm wide).

  4. Prepare 3 of to 4 Green bell pepper (cut it into about 1 cm wide).

  5. Prepare 1 of Very thinly julienned Japanese leek.

  6. It’s of A. ingredients:.

  7. It’s 1 tbsp of each Soy sauce, sake.

  8. Prepare 1 tbsp of Juice of grated ginger.

  9. It’s 1 of as required Katakuriko.

  10. You need of B. ingredients:.

  11. It’s 3 tbsp of Vinegar ( or black rice vineger ).

  12. Prepare 3 tbsp of Sugar.

  13. It’s 1 tbsp of Soy sauce.

  14. Prepare 1 clove of Ginger ( minced ).

  15. It’s 1 of Oil for deep frying.

This fried tofu can be served with any sauce.

I tried it with the garlic and chilli sauce from the supermarket and it was good too.

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high.

When oil is rippling across the surface, carefully add tofu so it doesn't splash.

Delicious Mackerel and Deep Fried Tofu with a Thick and Sweet Vinegar Sauce step by step

  1. Cut the mackerel into bite sizes. Cut the atsuage into bite size. Marinate in the A. ingredients for about 20 minutes. Cut the bell peppers..

  2. Mince the ginger. Mix all the B. ingredients in a bowl. Cut off a 20cm section of a Japanese leak and julienne..

  3. Drain the mackerel and the atsuage and put it in a plastic bag with katakuriko. Shack the plastic bag to make the katakuriko cover the mackerel and atsuage evenly..

  4. Heat up the oil to about a medium-high temperature, and deep fry the mackerel and atsuage. Drain off the oil. Remove the scum from the surface as shown in the photo if needed..

  5. Wipe off the oil from the frying pan of Step 4 and fry the paprika and green bell pepper and add the B ingredients. Add the mackerel and the atsuage to it and fry all together..

  6. The katakuriko from the covering from Step 5 makes the sauce a little thicker. Dish it on a plate, garnish it with the very thinly julienned Japanese leek and its ready..

Cook, undisturbed, until very crisp and dark brown.

After transferring the fried tofu onto a serving plate, use the remaining oil to cook the delicious garlic sauce (aka Fish fragrant sauce, 鱼香汁).

As I explained in the previous post on Sichuan shredded pork with garlic sauce , this famous Sichuan stir-fry sauce bursts with flavour: tangy, spicy, sour, savoury with a hint of sweetness.

Firstly, because it was so expensive, and secondly because it was a very simple tofu recipe.

The sauce was made with soy sauce and sugar or maple syrup.