How to cook... Chu Chee Tofu
By Richard Barrow 
Friday 22nd May, 2009 | 247 words | Category: Enjoy Thai Food | 2 feedbacks »
Today we have another vegetarian dish. It is Chu Chee Tofu or "chu chee tao-hoo" in Thai. As you probably know, tofu is often used as a meat substitute in many Thai dishes. In many cases, the finished product looks like the "real thing". In the ingredients below you can see the red curry paste and coconut milk at the top, white tofu on the right and red chilli, palm sugar and kaffir lime leaves on the left. You can use yellow tofu if you like which you will find to be a little saltier.
Cut the tofu into slices much like you do for a cake. Fry this in a pan of oil. Next, heat some coconut cream in a pan until the oil surfaces. Add the red curry paste. Stir it well. You may need to add a bit more coconut milk in order to make a smooth paste. Season it with light soy sauce and palm sugar. Next, add the fried tofu and some more coconut milk. If it is too salty then add some more sugar and coconut milk. I haven't said how much seasoning as it is normal to adjust to your own taste. Finish by adding the kaffir lime leaves and spur chilli. We pre-fried the kaffir lime leaves but you don't need to do that. Come back next week to www.thai-blogs.com for another Thai food recipe. The food blogs are now archived at our www.EnjoyThaifood.com website.
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I am a frequent visitor to Thai-blogs over last 6 months and I found the information available here are very much useful for my small budget trips around Thailand during the weekends.
I m living in Thailand for nearly 3 years. I always love to see new places & people, and try different food given that they are pure vegetarian. Even though I wanted to try Thai food, I find it really difficult to explain my pure vegetarian requirement to Thais. Saying "Jhe" does not help most of the times, as they still use oyster sauce, dried shrimp, etc. My latest failure was when I bought a green curry paste to try it myself, and found it full of fish smell.
Is there any way to find pure vegetarian food or ingredients (like curry paste) in Thailand?
Thanks in advance.
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