Vegan Teriyaki Tofu Fried Rice

On to the next recipe for my major recipe uploading today. I'm trying to make use of this apare time I have as I realised I'm studying for a chem test that may possibly not even be tomorrow like I assumed it would be! 

I really love how this vegan fried rice tastes :) Fried rice is such an easy dish to whip up with whatever you have in your fridge. For this japanese-y fried rice, I wanted to add mirin but I ran out, [or at least I thought I did :-( ] and I wanted to add japanese chili powder over but I had apparently used it up too. I'm obsessed with the stuff, and spicy food in general. 

Tahini Soba

School has started officially so my posts from now on may be even shorter than normal! Today I made this really easy soba. When I showed it to my brother he said, "that's not japanese" so I said "it's fusion.

In any case, it's delicious ^^ Tahini is sesame seed butter. I used organic hulled tahini I got from wholefoods in London. Tahini's rather bitter, so I sweetened it up with honey. Worked pretty well I must say! 

What you'll need

A piece of ginger

50g uncooked soba

1/2 cup chopped broccoli 

1/4 cup sliced carrots 

1 tbsp hulled tahini

1 tbsp honey

1/4 tsp mirin

1/4 tsp light soya sauce 

Grilled meat of choice

Seaweed for garnishing 

How to

1. Boil water with ginger. Add in broccoli and carrots. Blanch for a few minutes and remove broccoli and carrots. Then cook your soba in rapidly boiling water for 3 min or according to your packages instructions. 

2. Mix tahini, honey, mirin and soya sauce together. Toss soba in the sauce. Garnish with seaweed and serve with vegetables and grilled meat :)

Tabasco Cream Soba

Today's recipe is so super quick and easy I can barely call it cooking. It's really good on a warm day because the sauce is made of greek yogurt, which is cold. You can always make it hot my making the sauce in a double boiler or heating it in a microwave. However the weather was just too hot for me to even consider doing that. Therefore I have cold soba, which is actually normal since Japanese soba is sometimes served over ice :) 

What you'll need

50g uncooked soba (organic if possible)

1/4 cup greek yogurt

30g tomato pasta sauce

1.5 - 2 tsp Tabasco sauce

1/2 cup spinach, torn up

Grilled chicken, chopped up 

Chopped red chili (about 1/2 a chili) 

How to 

1. Cook soba according to the package. Remember to rinse in cool water afterward to stop the cooking process.

2. Mix yogurt, pasta sauce, Tabasco sauce and torn up spinach. Mix into soba and add in the grilled chicken too.

3. Sprinkle chopped red chili over and serve :)

How easy was that?