Scrambled tofu with cherry tomatoes and spinach

Scrambled tofu

breakfast
A high-protein breakfast gets your day off to a great start. Eat this on bread during the week, or make it on Sunday as part of a vegan English breakfast
prepare

5min

cook

10min

total

15min

A healthy breakfast will get your day off to a good start. At the same time, it shouldn't take too much time and effort either. Unless you feel like it, of course. This scrambled tofu - a plant-based alternative to scrambled eggs - can be made in no time, is very tasty and immediately starts the day with a portion of protein. Also, recipe has only 5 ingredients in the base, so it's nice and easy.

As far as I'm concerned, it's quick and easy enough to prepare during the week, but it certainly doesn't look out of place in a more elaborate vegan English breakfast on Sunday either. Really don't have time to prepare it in the morning? Then make it the night before and bake it in the morning. Do wait to add the kala manak - or sulfur salt - until just before serving, or it will lose its flavor. By the way, it's also quite tasty cold.

In this recipe for scrambled tofu only a few ingredients are used to add flavor to the tofu. The soy sauce makes it nice and salty, and gives it a bit of that umami taste. The kurkuma makes it extra savory. Also, the kurkuma causes the tofu to turn yellow, making it look a little more like egg. But kurkuma has even more benefits: in fact, it is very healthy. Among other things, it acts as an anti-inflammatory and aids in digestion. The combination with black pepper ensures that it is absorbed extra well.

Serve with bread or toast and toppings of your choice. Or use it as a protein source in a wrap.

Tips

  • The kala manak - or sulfur salt - makes the tofu look even more like scrambled egg. It's also very tasty without it, but it really adds something
  • This is a dish to vary a lot. Incorporate vegetables you have lying around
  • Try spreading your sandwich with vegan mayo
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ingredients

for 2 people

basic ingredients

  • 1 tbsp
    oil
  • 1
    onion chopped
  • 250 g
    stevige tofu verkruimeld
  • 1 tbsp
    soy sauce
  • 0.5tsp
    kurkuma
  • pepper and salt to taste

optional

  • handful
  • 200 g
    Cherry tomatoes
  • pinch of
    kala manak
  • spring-onion
  • chili flakes

Preparation

step 1

Heat oil in a wok or skillet over medium-high heat. In it, fry the onion

step 2

When the onion is glassy add the tofu and stir-fry for a few minutes. Then add the soy sauce, kurkuma, pepper and salt and fry briefly.

step 3

optional: stir in the spinach. Keep stirring, and when the spinach has shrunk, add the cherry tomatoes as well

step 4

optional: just before serving the scrambled tofu add the kala manak