Tofu croquettes with cranberry sauce
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 10 to 30 mins
- Serve
- Makes 12 croquettes
Try these easy fried patties with a quick homemade cranberry sauce.
Ingredients
For the tofu croquettes
- tofu: 400g/14oz semi-firm tofu, rinsed and drained, grated
- spring onions: 1 small bunch spring onions, white part only, finely chopped
- carrots: 2 carrots, finely grated
- courgette: 1 courgette, grated
- flour: 50g/2oz flour
- thyme: 2-3 sprigs fresh thyme
- breadcrumbs: 100驳/3陆辞锄 fine dry breadcrumbs
- black pepper: salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- vegetable oil: vegetable oil, for frying
For the cranberry sauce
- sugar: 100驳/3陆辞锄 sugar
- cranberries: 250g/9oz fresh or frozen cranberries
- orange juice: 100ml/3陆fl oz fresh orange juice
- orange: 1 orange, finely grated zest only (optional)
Method
To make the tofu croquettes, use your hands to mix together all the croquette ingredients. The result should be a soft dough. Add the flour to make this hold together, and flavour to taste with thyme, salt and pepper.
Divide the dough into 12 patties, flatten them, and shallow-fry in batches for 5 minutes on each side, taking care when you turn them.
Arrange them side by side in a small oven-proof dish to be reheated in the oven when needed (although they will be less crisp, but no less delicious, if you do this). If you intend to freeze them, let them cool completely, then cover before doing so.
For the cranberry sauce, add all the ingredients together in a pan and cook gently for 10-15 minutes, until the cranberries soften and burst in their skins and the sauce thickens.
Serve the tofu croquettes with the cranberry sauce alongside.
Recipe tips
Slightly softer tofu will work better in this recipe.
