Happy Friday everyone~! Hope you guys had an awesome week and accomplished a lot of things! Now you’re probably so readyย to enjoy this weekend fully!! Nothing can be better than celebrate this amazing weekend with Korean style, what do you think?
One of the old fashioned bar foods, Tofu Kimchi is just a perfect snack and/or appetizer with any drink or even just with water!
It also great for low carb diet, I do switch my rice to tofu often when I need to cut down my carb. However, is is so satisfying, you won’t even miss anything! ๐
Jacob and I went to Old Fashioned Korean bars a lot when we were in Korea, because it was my favorite kind of bar in Korea. After all, Jacob fell in love with the style of foods and atmosphere- we couldn’t have enough! lol
I recommend you to use medium firm to extra firm, no silken tofu or super firm tofu, because silken tofu will be very hard to eat either chopstick or fork and Super firm tofu’s texture will be too much for this dish. ๐
Hope you guys give this recipe a try one day!
Good luck and have fun in your kitchen~!
Tofu Kimchi
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 3 to 4 1x
Description
Ingredients
- 4 slices bacon, cut into bite size
- 5 oz pork butt, loin or any cut you prefer, cut into bite size
- 2 shallots or 1/2 of onion, thinly sliced
- 3 Tbs. mirin
- 2 cups fermented kimchi, cut into bite sizes
- 1 Tbs.gochugaru, Korean red pepper flakes (Optional)
- small pinch of sugar, if you kimchi is too sour
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp salt (depending on how slaty your kimchi is)
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
- 3 green onions
- 1 red chili (optional)
- 1 block (14 oz) firm or extra firm tofu
- 1 Tbs sesame oil
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium high heat; add bacon and cook until its edges are brown, about 3 to 4 minutes. Stirring occasionally. When the skillet is coated with bacon fat, add pork and season pork with small pinch of salt and pepper, about 1/8 tsp each. Cook pork until golden about 4 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add sliced shallot or onion and cook until shallot is soften, about 2 to 3 minutes. Pour mirin and deglaze bottom of skillet.
- When mirin is evaporated, add kimchi, gochugaru, sugar, slat and pepper. Stirring occasionally and cook them until kimchi has soften, about 4 to 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cut tofu into halves (into 2 rectangles) and slice into 1/2-inch thin squares. Place on a microwave safe dish, cover with plastic wrap. Heat up for 2 minutes or until tofu is warm.
- Now, adding chopped green onions and chili into skillet and stir one last time. Place cooked kimchi and pork mixture on a side of serving plate and place warm tofu slices on another side. Drizzle sesame oil on top of kimchi mixture and sprinkle green onion and chili for garnish. Crush sesame seeds between your finger tips and sprinkle right on top of both tofu and kimchi! Place as much kimchi mixture on top of tofu and enjoy!
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
7 comments
Hi. I was just wondering, what is the difference between korean red pepper powder and korean red pepper flakes? I went to hmart few days ago and they have 2 different gochugaru (powder and flakes). Anyway, thank you so much for sharing this recipe! Can’t wait to try this soon!
Those are something, I think some company calls differently. But there is 3 different types of gochugaru you can find in Korean grocery stores. One is regular gochugaru, kimchi & all purpose. Two is fine gochugaru, almost like powdery texture which we use for more color purpose- not necessary to have it. There is Cheonyang gochugaru, extra spicy one. Hope this helped! ๐
Hi Seonkyoung, i just want to say, thank you for the recipe. i tried it last night for dinner and omg, it’s soooooo delicious! my husband and i agreed that this is the best ever recipe for Tofu Kimchi! the bacon made it all different!
Hi May! I’m so happy to hear that!! ๐ Bacon is love!! hehehe
happy new year seonkyoung. you slice and dice so fast. could you please show us how you keep your knifes so sharp? either on a youtube video or one of your live shows would be great.
hope 2017 will be better and drier than 2016.
is there a vegetarian substitute for the pork?
You can always omit the pork! Also if you want, go ahead and add mushrooms!