Rice with Peanut-y Scallion-y Sauce
Admittedly, this one got a little weird. I love this recipe for Tofu Triangles in Creamy Nut Butter Sauce with Scallions from Epicurious and was really craving it for this week. But the tofu is too much protein for me when I'll be eating dinner just before bed. So I had a bit of internal debate about weird vs worth it, and landed on worth it; I decided to make just the sauce over a little bit of rice, and deliver my craving while also staying true to my needs.
It doesn't sound so weird when I put it that way, does it?
Planning!
This was such an easy cook because I got to skip the frying-the-tofu step. When I thought about it, I decided to incorporate four scallions into the sauce, and then skip the water because I wouldn't be cooking the sauce down. I always skip the tamari with this recipe (I can't taste it when there's also soy sauce in a recipe), and I skipped the sesame seeds as well. They're great with the tofu, but unnecessary when it's just rice and sauce.
Here's the nutritional breakdown from Fitbit...
Groceries I had on hand... (all of them!)
- rice
- scallions
- rice wine vinegar
- soy sauce
- brown sugar
- peanut butter (crunchy was what I had in the cupboard)
- red pepper flakes
Groceries I had to buy... (none of them!)
Total monies spent for the entire recipe: $0
Total monies spent for each of these 6 dinner....
$0 per meal...
Cooking!
There was basically no cooking! I steamed the rice. Then, as the rice was resting, I whizzed up the sauce in my mini-prep. I stirred the sauce into the rice to fully incorporate it, portioned it out, then licked all of the utensils.
Licking the spoons after I was done with this just made me crave it more. Seriously, I am so looking forward to this weird thing I decided to do.
