Lemon Rice with Fried Tofu
30—40 Min
Try something different with this lemon rice — it has a beautiful tangy, fresh and healthy flavor. Turmeric warms you from the inside and our Veggy Exotic mix adds a fresh zing to the plate with its mango, cinnamon and ginger flavors.
- 🍽main course
- 🍣asian
- 🌱vegan
- 🥒vegetarian
- 🍚rice
- tofu
- 💘 Date Night
- 🥒Let’s go Veggy!
- 🍱Meal Prep
- 🏋🏽New Year’s Resolution
- 🌷Spring
Ingredients 3 Portions
- 250 gBasmati rice
- 400 gTofu
- 2 Lemons
- 4 tbsp.Olive oil
- 1 tsp.Turmeric, Ground
- 1 pinchSea Salt, Coarse
- 1 pinchPepper Black, Ground
- 2 tbsp.Veggy Exotic Seasoning Mix
Preparation
- 1
Heat the oil in a pan. Add the rice and fry while stirring until the grains of rice go transparent. Add the turmeric and continue to fry for a short time.
- 2
Use 500 ml of water to deglaze. Use a lemon juicer to squeeze the juice from the lemons. Add the lemon juice, sea salt and ground pepper to the rice. Cover the pan and leave to simmer over a medium heat for 15–20 minutes.
- 3
Grate some lemon peel and mix it in.
- 4
Dice the tofu and season it with Veggy Exotic.
- 5
Heat the oil in a pan. Fry the tofu on all sides for 4–5 minutes. Then mix with the lemon rice, dish out onto plates and enjoy.