5 Tofu Dishes from 5 Countries (Nigeria, USA, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan)

Huge thank you to Laila, Brandy, Stephanie, Vanessa, Arum and Mika for sharing their recipes!

The artist behind me is Eri Aikawa

Recipes:
USA:
Chocolate pie:
•12 oz silken tofu (I use soft, silken tofu when I can find it)
•1.5 c dairy free chocolate chips (or your favorite dark chocolate chips)
•2 tablespoons free dairy milk (we like west soy, soymilk)
•1/2 c granulated sugar ( 1/4c more if you prefer a sweeter pie)
•Tiny pinch of salt
•Pie crust of your choice (I always use a store bought pie shell
Directions:
• Prepare your pie crust according to directions.
• Make the chocolate filling: Melt the chocolate chips in a microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until melted and smooth, or on a doble boiler and stiring often. You want the chocolate melted and smooth. Let it cool for a few minutes, and then add the melted chocolate to a blender along with the silken tofu, dairy free milk and sugar. Blend until very smooth.
• Pour the filling on top of the crust. Place in the refrigerator to chill for at least 2 hours. The pie will firm up as it cools.
• Once the pie has chilled, top with your desired toppings and enjoy!

Indonesia:
Ingredients:
300gr firm tofu
100gr corned beef (or sautéed ground beef if you like)
3 large eggs (preferably duck eggs, or chicken eggs are fine)
2 garlic
1 small onion
2 large scallions
Salt & pepper to taste
Chilli (if you like)
Spring roll wrappers (to wrap)
Oil (for frying)
Directions:
Thinly slice scallions
Chop garlic, onion, and chilli
Mash the tofu with fork, then combine with corned beef, eggs, scallions, garlics, onion, chilli, and salt & pepper until it comes together
Heat a pan in medium heat, add some oil, put a spring roll wrapper in the pan (you don’t need to wait until the pan is hot)
Add a scoop of the filling mixture in the middle, then fold the wrapper like an envelope
Flip it, so the wrapper will seal and make sure there is no leak
Once its set (it doesn’t have to be fully cooked because this step is just to make sure there is no leak), you can put it aside and repeat with the rest
Prepare a frying pan with some oil, enough for deep frying, then fry the martabak tahu on medium heat until its golden brown

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[deqhiej.rasyid]

Indonesia also have a same dish from Vietnam in this video. We call it Kembang Tahu or Tofu Flower. It's a great dish for rainy season in Indonesia... 😃

[katekramer]

"The vegetables are usually cabbage and red onions, but you can go HAM and do whatever you want" 🤣🤣 More videos from Laila!

[nancytrinh]

highly recommend getting your silken tofu from an Asian grocery store or even fresh tofu/soymilk from Asian restaurants (i.e. Vietnamese Tofu Shops, Chinese Dim Sum, Taiwanese breakfast, Korean Tofu soup restaurants) ! The taste is incredible and does not have that weird flavor people dislike in conventional American brand tofu. Asian Tofu flavor is so good that you don't need to cover it up! Super rich, nutty, and silky!

[zhafarina]

you can totally make 'martabak tahu' into a vegetarian meal, my mom usually makes the filling with tofu, carrot, spring onion, and a little bit of corn starch then mix it well with egg. Or you can make it vegan by removing the egg. Another simple tofu dish from Indonesia (also it's a vegan dish) is 'tahu isi', it's incredible too!

[itsdragherjade]

in Indonesia there's also deep fried tofu! which is basically tofu stuffed with stir fried veggies, dip in batter and then deep fried

[umecider]

A classic tofu dish from japan would be agedashi tofu! It's cubes of tofu, dipped in cornstarch and then deep-fried and covered in a sweet and savory sauce that's thickened with cornstarch (in my household we add julienned carrots and onion that have been cooked until soft to this sauce). Its absolutely delicious! I also think mapo tofu (from the Sichuan province of China) would be great too, it pairs great with rice. Now I have a strong craving for soondobu jigae, agedashi tofu, and mapo tofu.

[ruthduruchukwu]

Thanks for highlighting northern Nigerian cuisine Beryl. As a person of Nigerian descent (from the East), we’re not great at being educated about other tribes cultures and foods. So this is great to see.

[Amyduckie]

Tofu is legitimately one of my favourite foods. That ginger syrup tofu looked incredible. It’d be like having a ginger custard. Definitely going to try something like that.

I’d love to see a tempeh episode. That stuff is so maligned and I think it’s delicious.

[chiffonades]

I do a really similar tofu chocolate pie with a few differences
-16 oz silken tofu
-13 oz melted dark chocolate chips
-⅓ cup strong coffee/espresso/coffee liqueur if you’re feeling cheeky
-1 tbsp maple syrup (or sweetener of choice)
-blend it all up and put in a chocolate cookie/oreo crust and fridge for at least 2 hours for a super decadent treat. I like my desserts less sweet so sometimes i skip the sweetener if my chocolate is sweet on its own. The coffee isn’t noticeable, but makes the chocolate flavor deeper and richer!

[maryanyah]

My Nigerian Self didn't even know we had tofu in Nigeria, I would absolutely love to try this🥰🇳🇬.

[irabun]

I love all these! The Vietnamese tofu pudding has a similar iteration in the Philippines, and I think it's really cool to see something familiar 💗 I also think that generally tofu in Asia, when not used in desserts, is often cooked/served with meat, as it's seen as a sponge for all the flavor that comes from sauces! Thank you so much for this great video as always 💕

[Flickaholic]

That tofu dessert from Vietnam, we have similar kind of dessert here in Indonesia called kembang tahu. Very interesting to know there's also kembang tahu in Vietnam, so I googled to find out where was the dessert originated from. Turns out it was originally a Chinese dessert called douhua (lit. beancurd flower, same meaning as kembang tahu in Indonesian). I wonder if any other countries in South East Asia also have this kind of dessert.

[lisahinton]

Beryl, I just wanted to say, your knife skills and your plating are both improving! (I know you've mentioned in previous videos you're a home cook, and not a trained chef!) That plating with the chives, green onions, and black sesame was so pretty!

This video just made me happy. I am so glad you pointed out that you're becoming more and more open to new foods and even foods that you at one time may have shunned (my summation). Your channel is *just so good* at bringing us all together. And in a world that feels so much more divided to me than just thirty years ago when I was around your age, that is a *very good thing!*

[DiMacky]

Mapo Tofu (and the Viet and Korean varieties of it) is my favourite tofu dish, and it's typically cooked with ground pork. There are good vegetarian dishes with tofu, but most savory traditional tofu dishes I am aware of utilize tofu as a filler, a way to stretch meat, not a way to exclude meat.

[justusukomah]

this is one of the many reason I love this channel I'm from Nigeria and never knew people ate tofu admittedly I'm not Hausa and only been to kano very briefly still it goes to show you can keep learning new things even about places you are somewhat familiar with

[nozee]

Yay! So many interesting Tofu recipes! Please do more Tofu episodes!

[aak]

That chocolate tofu pie is for sure going to be my next dessert. Im a big tofu fan, but my mom is not. Im excited for her to like something with tofu, itll be a great entry into getting her to admit tofu isnt just the mushy sponge shes had before

[tannyainthecity]

when martabak tahu appears i was because it's so PERFECT. i mean, how simple was that? and you don't even need the beef! just go all out with tofu and maybe add scallions, green onions... make it hella vegetarian filling and it still tastes SO GOOD 👍🏽

also, CONGRATS BERYL for finally able to crack open that corned beef! i am (wipes tears) so proud of you 😢

[Mystearicia]

The Vietnamese tofu is so similar to Filipino taho, where every morning there would be a man carrying two metal buckets on a stick, shouting "TAHOOO" it's my favorite especially it has sago pearls and brown sugar syrup :')

[victoriahoward]

The lady from Nigeria is so pretty and her dish looks so good!