Stuffed and Grilled Thin Tofu

Name: Stuffed and Grilled Thin Tofu
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 1 packet abura-age (2 abura-age per packet); 4 spring onions (scallions), trimmed and very finely chopped; about 15 ml/1 tbsp shoyu; 30 ml/2 tbsp lightly toasted sesame seeds; 1 garlic clove, grated or crushed

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

Age or Abura-age, fried thin tofu, can be used as a bag like a Middle Eastern pitta bread. Here, a generous amount of chopped spring onion and other aromatic ingredients till the bag. In Japan, spring onions are thought to prevent colds in the winter, and this dish is made doubly effective by also including grated garlic.

Ingredients

1 packet abura-age (2 abura-age per packet)

Asia
Japan
Side dish
Vegan
Winter

Method

Put the abura-age in a sieve and pour hot water from a kettle over to wash off excess oil. Drain and gently dry on kitchen paper.
Put one abura-age on a chopping board and roll over several times with a rolling pin. Cut in half and carefully open at the cut part to make two bags. Repeat with the remaining piece.
Mix the spring onions, shoyu, garlic an