Tsushima (Crumbled Tofu and Vegetable Salad)
Quick answer
- Total time
- 45 min
- Level
- Medium
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Ingredients
- 13
About this dish
This tofu and vegetable salad combines dry-cooked crumbled tofu with shiitake, carrot, burdock, and konjac simmered in dashi and finished with a vinegar dressing.
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Crumble 400g tofu into a pan and dry-fry over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes. When moisture has emerged and the tofu is loose, drain in a sieve and cool completely. Combine the shiitake, carrot, burdock, konjac, 100ml dashi, 4g simmering sugar, and 6ml simmering soy sauce. Cook about 10 minutes until nearly dry, spread out, and cool. Mix the fully cooled tofu and simmered vegetables in a large bowl. Pour over the vinegar dressing, toss gently, fold in the green beans, and serve or chill.
Instructions
Read the steps as a cooking flow: prep, heat, seasoning, doneness control, and finish.
- 1Control
Crumble 400g tofu into a pan and dry-fry over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes.
When moisture has emerged and the tofu is loose, drain in a sieve and cool completely.
- 2Heat
Soak 2 dried shiitake and cut into 3cm strips.
Cut 30g carrot, 20g burdock, and 30g konjac to match. Soak burdock for 5 minutes and parboil konjac for 2 minutes.
- 3Control
Combine the shiitake, carrot, burdock, konjac, 100ml dashi, 4g simmering sugar, and 6ml simmering soy sauce.
Cook about 10 minutes until nearly dry, spread out, and cool.
- 4Season
Blanch 12g green beans for 1 minute, chill, and slice thinly.
Dissolve 4g dressing sugar, 1g salt, 3ml soy sauce, and 15ml vinegar in a small bowl.
- 5Finish
Mix the fully cooled tofu and simmered vegetables in a large bowl.
Pour over the vinegar dressing, toss gently, fold in the green beans, and serve or chill.
Practical Cooking Checks
The cues that matter most while cooking.
- Key technique
- Tofu dry-fried to remove moisture
- Finish cue
- Mix the fully cooled tofu and simmered vegetables in a large bowl.
- Storage and reheating
- When moisture has emerged and the tofu is loose, drain in a sieve and cool completely.
Cooking decision evidence
Calculated Charim data and applicable official food safety guidance.
This recipe
45min, 13 ingredients
Category median
25min, 8 ingredients
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