Dofu Cai Mian (Tofu Vegetable Noodle Soup, Two Versions)

"A warming, nutritious, and quick throw-together soup. Like a wonderful lo mein, but with less oil and in stock -- plus, this has a sweet-spicy and a hot-spicy variation here!"
 
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photo by Kathy228 photo by Kathy228
Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
14
Yields:
1-3 Bowls
Serves:
2
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ingredients

  • 1 (12 ounce) package frozen leaf spinach or (12 ounce) package chopped spinach
  • 34 cup frozen broccoli florets
  • 12 cup sliced frozen carrots
  • 12 cup sliced mushrooms
  • 14 cup water chestnut
  • 14 cup bamboo shoot
  • 12 ounces lite silken extra firm tofu or 12 ounces firm tofu, pressed and drained
  • 12 tablespoon fresh garlic
  • 12 tablespoon grated fresh ginger (optional) or 1/2 tablespoon pureed fresh ginger (optional)
  • 1 2 tablespoons szechuan sauce or 2 tablespoons chili paste
  • 2 teaspoons sesame oil or 2 teaspoons chili oil
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 2 cups vegetable stock or 2 cups oriental vegetable stock
  • 2 cups cooked whole wheat noodles (linguini, ho fun, egg noodles, whatever)
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directions

  • Bring stock to a roiling boil.
  • Add spices to taste. For a hotpot style soup, use ginger, garlic, szechuan sauce or chili paste, and chili oil. For a darker, sweet-spicy taste, use ginger, garlic, five spice powder, sesame oil, and some extra soy sauce.
  • Add noodles and cubed tofu, simmer a few minutes to allow flavors to blend and noodles to cook partway while you get vegetables together.
  • Add all vegetables, excluding spinach.
  • Simmer.
  • Add spinach, simmer until just tender.
  • Serve hot.

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Reviews

  1. One of my favorite recipes to make a giant pot of and then eat for the rest of the week! (Just have to boil noodles every night.) I also did some substituting: bamboo shoots and baby corn instead of broccoli and carrots, and I'll often throw in whatever leafy green looks good, not necessarily spinach. And I mix spices and use soba for my noodle as well. But that's one of the great things about this recipe: you can throw in whatever you want, and it doesn't have to be the same each time! Highly recommended!
     
  2. This was delicious! But I cannot give stars because I made some changes: I omitted the carrots and added a green onion. And since I couldn't decide which taste I wanted, I combined both options of spices and was it ever good! The noodles I used was soba. Perfect. I liked this dish alot and will make it again and again. Thanks for such an easy and delicious soup recipe.
     
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  1. One of my favorite recipes to make a giant pot of and then eat for the rest of the week! (Just have to boil noodles every night.) I also did some substituting: bamboo shoots and baby corn instead of broccoli and carrots, and I'll often throw in whatever leafy green looks good, not necessarily spinach. And I mix spices and use soba for my noodle as well. But that's one of the great things about this recipe: you can throw in whatever you want, and it doesn't have to be the same each time! Highly recommended!
     

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Student of many obscure academic fields, aspiring cook, all around oddball. Currently in China until mid-July -- so thank you for trying all my recipes while I'm gone, and I hope to come back with new ingredients all over the place!
 
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