I kept most of the key ingredients the same, but I also made a few tweaks. To make the sauce silkier for tossing with noodles, I used tomato sauce as the base instead of crushed tomatoes. However, you can use crushed tomatoes for the recipe. It’s just that the sauce will be a little thicker.
INGREDIENT FOCUS: SAMBAL ULEK
One of the key ingredients in this sambal noodles recipe is sambal ulek (also spelled as sambal oelek). This chili paste is native to Indonesia and commonly used in South Asian cuisine. Sambal means a hot sauce or paste made from chili peppers. Ulek means “to grind.” Put together, sambal ulek refers to a chili paste that is made from grinding chili peppers, usually with a pestle and mortar.
HOW TO SLICE TOFU TRIANGLES
For the tofu, I like slicing them into triangles for presentation. To do so, I take a block of tofu, and slice it into 1/2-inch slices. Then, I take each slice and cut them in half to get 2 smaller rectangles. Finally, I take each rectangle and slice them diagonally to get small tofu triangles.
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