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Dinner · 20 min · 2 bowls

Soft tofu stew

Bubbling pot, soft tofu, a cracked egg if you want it. Don't boil the tofu to rubber.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Bubbling pot, soft tofu, a cracked egg if you want it. Don't boil the tofu to rubber.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • tofu
  • stock
  • gochujang
  • garlic
  • scallion

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: eggs, kimchi.

Method

  1. Silken tofu, cut in the package and slid in whole. Firm tofu is the wrong texture and cubes break the dish.
  2. Fry the gochujang and garlic in oil first until the fat turns red, which is the base and takes a minute.
  3. Stock in and brought to a hard boil — this is one stew that wants to arrive at the table still bubbling.
  4. Egg cracked in at the last second and left to poach in the residual heat.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

tofu
Texture is a decision, not a given.
stock
Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
gochujang
Fermented chili paste with real sweetness and salt behind the heat, so it seasons three ways at once.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
scallion
Two ingredients on one stalk.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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