Tofu is the perfect balance to the intense spice of a jerk sauce. In the recipe below, I provide a recipe for making jerk sauce, but you can also use store-bought sauce instead. Traditionally, jerk sauce is made with Scotch Bonnet peppers. However, those peppers are difficult for me to find, so I am using habanero peppers instead. For the tofu, I used House Foods’ organic extra-firm tofu. I love cooking with their tofu because the quality is consistently good. Their cute packaging scores bonus points with me, too. The Doraemon packaging is my all-time favorite.
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A note about the spice: Traditional Jamaican jerk marinades are made with Scotch Bonnet peppers. I haven’t seen them around yet, so I used habanero peppers instead. This sauce is definitely spicy! Feel free to use fewer habaneros or one seeded jalapeño pepper for less spice. Warning: If you’re using habaneros, resist the urge to test the sauce before it is cooked down. I made that mistake when I was testing the recipe, and my mouth was on fire!You can make the tofu with or without the crust: For this recipe, I decided to toss the tofu in cornstarch and pan fried them separately to give the tofu an extra crust. Because I’ve already featured several recipes that are straight-up tofu stir fries, I thought this would be a good change of pace. Feel free to skip the crust.Blending the sauce: Because we’re not mixing a lot of ingredients for the sauce, I like dumping all the ingredients into a jar using my immersion blender for the job.
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