Chef’s Plate Review: Black Pepper Stir-Fry

Chef’s Plate is a subscription service that delivers chef-designed recipes and fresh ingredients each week. There is no subscription or membership fee to join. Their recipes begin at $10.95 per plate for the 2-Person Plan and $9.75 per plate for the Family Plan. A Year of Boxes pays for this subscription.

I have been testing out some other recipe delivery boxes lately and I keep coming back to Chef’s Plate. I wanted to point this out because I think it is important for you to know. Some of the other recipe delivery kits have features I love, but overall Chef’s Plate is better. Of all the boxes, Chef’s Plate continues to come up with the best recipes. There hasn’t been a recipe from Chef’s Plate we haven’t liked. I don’t know who is responsible for their menu creation, but one thing is for sure, they do an amazing job!

Here’s a look at one of the recipes I made this week:

Recipe: Black Pepper Stir-Fry

Ingredients:

• 350 g extra firm tofu
• 5 oz jasmine rice
• 1 yellow bell pepper
• 3 oz snow peas
• 2 green onions
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 thai red chili
• 1 oz dry sherry wine
• 1 oz tamari
• 2 packs brown sugar
• 1 g crushed black pepper

Directions:

• Cook Rice: I used my rice cooker but you can also cook it on the stove with 1 1/4 cups water
• Prepare Ingredients: dry tofu and cut into 1-inch pieces, slice green onion, halve snow peas, slice yellow pepper, crush garlic, thinly slice red chili
• Cook Tofu: heat oil in large pan, cook tofu for 6-8 minutes until lightly browned
• Cook Vegetables: add more oil and garlic to pan, add yellow pepper and cook for 2 minutes, add snow peas and cook for 1 minute, remove from pan
• Make Sauce: in same pan add tamari, sugar, sherry, pepper and 3 tbs water, cook for 1 minute, until thickened slightly
• Plate & Serve: plate rice and stir-fry, drizzle with sauce, garnish with green onion and red chili

Notes:

• Tofu: I tossed my tofu in some corn starch before adding to the pan, I also added some pepper and salt
• Red Chili: I chopped this very thin and added it to the pan when I was cooking the vegetables

XOXO