Recipe: Here’s the secret to our vegan Satay Tofu dish

by Laura Forsyth | 29th December, 2022 | Food & Recipes

Lions Prep’s delicious protein-packed Satay Tofu with Fried Cabbage Rice & Smashed Cucumber is a simple recipe that uses quality plant-based ingredients.

Tasty and bursting with flavour, this easy recipe works as a nutritious lunch or filling plant-based dinner, that everyone will love. Look out for this dish on our menu, or have a go at making them yourself. It’s absolutely delicious, as well as incredibly healthy. 

 

Ingredients for our Satay Tofu dish

  • Cucumber 
  • Salt
  • Caster Sugar
  • Vinegar
  • Tamari (Soya)
  • Red Chilli
  • Mint
  • Coriander
  • Black Sesame Seed (Sesame Seeds)
  • Jasmine Rice 
  • Water
  • Sesame Oil (Sesame Seeds)
  • Garlic
  • Black Pepper
  • Peas
  • Spring Onion
  • Organic Tofu (30%, Soya)
  • Thai Yellow Curry Paste
  • Curry Powder
  • Coconut Yoghurt
  • Cornflour
  • Brown Sugar
  • Peanut Butter (Peanuts)
  • Peanut (Peanuts)
  • Vegetable Oil
  • Coconut Milk
  • White Cabbage 

Instructions for our Satay Tofu dish

Smashed Cucumber Salad Pot:
1. Chop cucumber roughly into 4cm chunks.
2. Chop herbs and add all ingredients to mixer. 
3. Pulse to break down into smaller pieces, don’t over mix as it should remain chunky. 
4. Leave in to marinade for 1 hour.
5. Decant onto perforated trays, for excess juice to drain away.

Fried Cabbage Rice
1. Cook the jasmine rice with the water.
2. Once rice is chilled, in the pan, add sesame oil and fry garlic until golden.
3. Add the cabbage, soy sauce and seasonings and fry until becoming soft.
4. Add in the chilled rice, breaking up until no clumps and frying gently.
5. Add in spring onions, peas, and remaining ingredients and mix through before chilling.

Satay Tofu
1. Slice tofu into 1cm thick slices.
2. Coat in marinade and tray up on a 40mm deep roasting tray.
3. Cook at 210C for 8 minutes.

Satay Marinade
1. Mix all ingredients together and blend until smooth.

Satay Sauce 2oz Pot
1. Blend with stick blender and chill.

 

Plant power

Using plant protein from soya beans along with a delicious blend of herbs and spices, you can conjure up one of your culinary favourites easily. Not only is this recipe high in protein and gluten free, but it’s also made without dairy. We have plenty of other delicious vegan sweet or savoury mains, snacks and breakfasts on our menu too, which changes every week.