Human Vegan

Moroccany Thing

So part of this is based on something I saw a guy cook in Chefchaouen a couple of years ago. I seem to remember he served it with a fried egg. I could have tried to mock-up a fried egg but eggs suck so screw that. Instead of rice you could maybe serve this with fruity cous cous, but I didn't have any cous cous. Some raisins and maybe some toasted almonds sound pretty good.

Looks okay? Right?

Ingredients
200g firm tofu (frozen & defrosted)
200g green beans
1 medium onion
2 dozen or more cherry tomatoes
1 Tbl spoon (more if you like) of ketchup
Some soya sauce
Some oregano
More cumin seeds than you might think
Oil (pref olive, obviously)
Seasoning

This serves two. Or if you are a pathetic loner like myself you can have some for lunch the next day.

So one you've defrosted yr tofu and got as much liquid out as possible, you will want to cut it into a suitable shape. The stuff I buy comes in 200g blocks so I just sliced it in half. The shape isn't really important. though if you do it steak/cutlet style like I did, you will want to score the tofu to get the marinade right in there.
For the marinade I used the arse-end of some ketchup, poured in some soya sauce, oregano & black pepper. Then I shook it up to mix all the ingredients. The longer you leave it the more flavour you will get in to the tofu, if you can do this the night before all the better. I gave it maybe 20-30 mins and it was alright.

Then you can just bung it in the oven somewhere around 200-220C. You could grill if you prefer, you can probably dry fry too. The sugar in the marinade with crisp up a little without having to use oil.

You can probably put the rice on now too. I'm not telling you how to cook fucking rice. Read the packet if you must.

Okay. So heat yr frying pan and put in more cumin seeds than you would thin necessary. Then add a little cumin. Then put in some oil, when that's heated up put in yours sliced onion (dice if you must, but I think sliced works best). When the onions start to be come translucent turn the heat down a bit and put in all the halved cherry tomatoes.

Let all that cook down so the tomatoes barely have any shape, then put your beans in there. I used the same ones that were left over from the other day which I had to freeze. If you  have frozen ones you can just put them in some warm water for a few minutes to defrost them. If not, then just top & tail 'em and throw 'em in.

Add a bunch of black pepper, some salt, chilli if you're feeling frisky (or, you could forgo the chilli here and maybe put some in the marinade instead? Yeah, go one, try that you bleedin' mental).

Then way to tell if everything is done is that it looks done. The rice looks like cooked rice, the tofu looks tasty, and the beans/tomatoes concoction looks pretty awesome too.

Serve, eat, and forget about the typically fucking awful day you just had at work. Maybe read a comic.