Original Recipes:

• Serious Eats Sesame Chicken
• Serious Eats Mushrooms and Tofu

Ingredients:

• 14 oz extra firm tofu sliced into 1.5"x1.5"x1/4" squares
• 1/4 cup corn starch
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup vegetable oil (more or less depending on pan)
• 1/4 onion finely minced
• 4 cloves garlic finely minced
• 1" of ginger grated on a micro plane
• 3 TBSP soy sauce
• 2 TBSP shaoxing wine (sub bourboun since that's more likely to be in my house)
• 2 TBSP rice wine vinegar
• 3 TBSP chicken stock
• 5 TBSP sugar
• 2 tsp roasted sesame seed oil
• 1 TBSP corn starch
• 1/2 tsp thai bird chilli flakes
• 12 oz frozen brocolli

Steps:

1. Place tofu in a clean heatproof bowl and carefully pour enough boiling water on top to cover.
2. Let stand for 30 seconds, then drain and transfer tofu to a paper towel-lined plate. Press gently on tofu with paper towels to dry thoroughly.
3. Mix together 1/4 cup of cornstarch and 1/4 tsp of salt on a plate.
4. Dredge tofu slices in cornstarch to evenly coat, tapping off excess and transferring them back to a clean, dry plate.
5. Combine soy sauce, shaoxing wine, rice wine vinegar, chicken stock, sugar, sesame seed oil, 1 TBSP corn starch, and chilli flakes for the sauce
6. Heat wok over high heat until smoking
7. Add vegetable oil (~1/4 inch in my wok)
8. Bring a pot of water to a boil to cook brocolli
9. When oil is heated add half of tofu (less if in a smaller pan)
10. Cook for 3.5 minutes (reduce heat to medium part way through)
11. flip, cook for 3.5 minutes
12. remove to paper towel lined plate
13. Return to high heat, repeat cooking process for second batch of tofu
14. While cooking the second batch of tofu boil frozen brocolli
15. Remove all but 1 tbsp of oil from wok
16. Sweat onions over low heat for 5 minutes
17. Add garlic and ginger, sweat for 5 more minutes.
18. re-mix, and add sauce mixture.
19. Increase heat to let sauce start to simmer
20. Return heat to low, and add tofu simmer for a few minutes until sauce is thick and glossy
21. Remove tofu (leaving plenty of sauce behind)
22. Add brocolli, and mix to coat with remaining sauce.