Happy Vegan Couple's video: TOFU WITH INDIAN SPICED SPINACH SAUCE-A PLANT-BASED PALAK PANEER BY THE HAPPY VEGAN COUPLE

Watch Georgie whip up this easy, delicious and comforting dish with so many flavors! Although we use Indian spices, there is no heat in this dish. We love this dish and hope you will too! Please subscribe if you have not yet already. We will keep the whole food, plant-based cooking videos coming in 2020. Here's the recipe (and it's also at the end of the video). TOFU WITH INDIAN SPICED SPINACH SAUCE SERVED WITH QUINOA - A PLANT-BASED PALAK PANEER Prepared by the Happy Vegan Couple *for your health, use organic ingredients as much as possible* Ingredients for Preparing the Tofu 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil ¼ tsp salt ½ tsp cumin powder ½ tsp garam masala ½ tsp garlic powder ½ tsp chili powder 2 tsp nutritional yeast ½ of a typical block of organic extra firm tofu (about 7 oz) Ingredients for Preparing the Spinach Sauce 4 cups loosely packed spinach ¼ cup water ¼ cup unsweetened soy milk 2 Tbsp soaked raw cashews 4 garlic cloves 1 inch piece of ginger ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp garam masala 1 tsp maple syrup 1 medium tomato chopped Instructions for Cooking Spinach Sauce 1. Place all your spinach sauce ingredients in your blender. Blend into a smooth puree. Set aside. Instructions for Cooking Tofu 2. Drain your tofu. Our favorite brand is Trader Joe’s Organic High Protein Tofu. This tofu hardly needs to have the water pressed out because it is dense and doesn’t absorb much of the water it is packed in. Depending on the kind of tofu you use, you may have to press out water before cooking either with simply wrapping it in a paper towel and pressing it or the method where you put something heavy on your tofu to press the water out. 3. Cut the tofu into ½ cubes. 4. Pour all your spices for preparing the tofu into one shaker container. This will give you a balanced way of adding the spices to your tofu when cooking. 5. Heat your pan to Medium High. Add the 1 tsp of oil. Once hot, add the cubed tofu. Using a spatula, stir the tofu so it gets coated by the oil. 6. Sprinkle on all the spices you combined together in the shaker. Mix well to evenly coat. Cook for about 3-4 minutes stirring until the tofu is browned and has a little crust. Note: If you are 100% oil free, you can bake the tofu with the spices instead of cooking in the pan. Another way of reducing oil once the tofu is cooked on the stove is to place the tofu on a plate lined with a paper towel. The paper towel will absorb some of the oil from the tofu. Let it sit for a couple minutes for this step. Instructions for Combining Spinach Sauce and Tofu 8. Turn stove on to medium heat. Pour spinach sauce from blender into pot. Once you see it is getting hot, add the cooked tofu to the pot, mix well, cover and cook for 10 minutes. Halfway through, stir again to mix well, recover and continue cooking. Serve with Quinoa We love eating this dish, particularly, with quinoa. It tastes delicious with the spinach sauce. If you haven’t made quinoa, it’s very easy and fast. Georgie likes to toast the quinoa first to give it some added flavor. 1. Heat stove to medium heat. Heat the pot that you will use for cooking your quinoa. Once it’s hot, pour 1 cup of dry, uncooked quinoa into pot. Shake the quinoa in the pot for a couple of minutes to toast the quinoa. Be careful not to let it burn. 2. Pour 2 cups of water into pot. Turn heat up to bring to a boil. Once it’s boiling, reduce heat to medium, cover and simmer until water is absorbed about 10-15 minutes. Thank you to Vegan Richa for this recipe which we adapted slightly for our personal tastes. Enjoy!