A creamy tikka masala sauce, with firm tofu "paneer", great for a fakeaway with rice and naan bread to scoop up the sauce. Using tofu in place of paneer adds extra protein, iron and calcium to this curry. As for the cream, I used tofu cream, which I made by blending 60ml plant cream with 80g of firm tofu. However, you can use any other plant based cream instead of this if you prefer
Yield; Four servings Cook time; 30 minutes
You'll need;
- One tablespoon of oil
- Two small brown onions, peeled and sliced
- Three cloves of garlic, sliced
- A thumb size piece of ginger, peeled and chopped
- Three tablespoons of tomato puree
- Three tablespoons of tikka masala curry powder
- One 400g tin of plum tomatoes
- 140ml plant based cream
- 400g firm tofu, pressed and diced
- Two tablespoons of desiccated coconut
Optional Extra; To give this the same appearance as a takeaway tikka masala, I also added red food colouring. This won't change the flavour, just the appearance, so it isn't strictly necessary
Method;
- Heat the oil in a saucepan over a medium heat, once it's warmed up add in the onions and give them five minutes to soften
- Once the onions have softened, add in the garlic and ginger. Give them a couple of minutes to become fragrant then add in the tomato puree and curry powder
- Give the tomato puree and curry powder a couple of minutes to cook off, then add the tin of plum tomatoes. Season to taste with salt and black pepper
- Pop a lid on the saucepan and leave the sauce to simmer for ten minutes, stirring occasionally. After ten minutes take the sauce off the heat and blend it until it's completely smooth
- Put the sauce back on the heat and add the cream, food colouring, chopped tofu and coconut. If you're not using any food colouring it will look like this
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Give the sauce a few minutes to heat back up, then it's ready to serve. I'd definitely recommend serving this with rice and naan bread, roti or chapatti to scoop up the sauce with
