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Quick Tofu Tikka Masala
25 min
Main
Servings
Total
25 minPrep
10 minCook
15 minContains
soy
tree nut
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peanut
sesame
Ingredients
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1 Tbsp (15ml)vegetable oil
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8.8 oz (250g)firm tofu, cut into 2 cm pieces
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1 Tbsp (15ml)vegetable oil
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1medium onion, chopped
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1 Tbsp (6g)freshly grated ginger
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1 tsp (2.1g)whole brown mustard seeds
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½ tspsalt
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¼ tspchili powder, or less for less spice
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1large tomato, chopped
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¾ cups (180ml)soy cooking cream
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½ cups (130g)unsweetened soy yogurt
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¼ cups (32g)raw cashews, chopped
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3 Tbsp (49g)tomato paste
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½lime, juiced
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Make your own
Directions
- To a large pan on high heat, add the oil and tofu. Turn it periodically so it gets lightly golden on all sides.
- Meanwhile, add the oil and onion to a sauté pan pan on medium-high heat. Cook for 3 minutes.
- Add the ginger and mustard seeds. Cook for 2 more minutes.
- Add the masala seasoning, salt, and chili and toast for another minute. The dish is spicy, so omit or add less chili if you're not a fan of heat.
- Add the chopped tomato, cooking cream, yogurt, cashews, and tomato paste. Cook for 7 - 8 minutes.
- Lastly, add the cooked tofu and stir it through.
- Squeeze over the lime juice, stir, and serve with naan or rice. Enjoy!
Storage
- Keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Let us know what you think
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Plate method
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Grains & Starches 38%
• vegan naan
Proteins 28%
• firm tofu
• unsweetened soy yogurt
• raw cashews
Fruits & Veggies 34%
• medium onion
• freshly grated ginger
• large tomato
• tomato paste
• lime
Calcium
• firm tofu
• unsweetened soy yogurt
Fat
• vegetable oil
• vegetable oil
• soy cooking cream
• raw cashews
Nutrition info
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This is a recipe to impress! Making this for my next bookclub! The girls are going to love it!!
Great recipe for many occasions, love it everytime and my friends and family do as well :)
Amazing recipe, my friends couldn't believe that the sauce was home made
This turned out GREAT. I was so happy with how easy and tasty it was. I used a full block of tofu because I didn’t want a leftover half-block. I also used a big onion and 2 small tomatoes. With my adjustments, it made about 4 servings.
Second time making this. The first time I made it exactly per the recipe; this time I made two substitutions - reporting here in case useful to anyone else:
- I had no soy yogurt and cooking cream on hand, so used some vegan half & half for both. Totally fine. Maybe slightly less thick, but no less good IMO and doesn’t seem to have affected the flavor.
- I used extra firm tofu instead of firm tofu. This substitution I would not recommend. It was still (very) good, but the firm tofu was much better in this dish, so if you have a choice, use that.
Super easy recipe and a quick meal prep for the week!
Incredible flavor! And the masala mix (instead of adding all the spices separately) nicely speeds things up.
I made this for me and my carnivore husband, and he was impressed. He ate all of it, there were no leftovers. I must remember to not put so much coconut milk, but with some tossing of spices in, and it was delicious.
Help! I added a full can of coconut milk (400ml) instead of 180ml. Is it ruined or can I save it?
Very tasty and even better as leftovers. Personally for my taste, I’ll do a little less yogurt next time because it toned down the spices more than I’d like. Ended up adding more spices at the end to bring the flavor back up. Will definitely make again though!
This recipe was bursting with flavour! It was absolutely delicious, especially when made in such a short amount of time. I loved it and will be making it many more times! Thank you, Sadia and the PUL team!
Easy to prepare and tasty! Do you have any ideas for a salad (or side veggie dish) that would go well with this? Ideally something simple to make too! Thank you! 🌶️😊
Quick and easy to make! And sooo tasty! I put the tofu in the air fryer instead and the outcome was delicious!
So good!
So delicious!!!!
Soo delicious and easy if you have all the ingredients ready!
Instead of mustard seeds I added fennel seeds, coriander seeds and cumin seeds - I can totally recommend adding them to this dish, too. Will definitely cook this again, thank you!
Delicious and easy to make!
Delicious! And the app helped make it easier for my husband to cook dinner for me while I was laid up with a sprained ankle.
Loved this recipe!!! Easy and delicious 😋😋😋
Very tasty, will definitely make again. Took me a little longer than 25 mins to make but I'm sure it will be much quicker next time now I know what I'm doing.
Amazing!! I do have access to a vegan heavy whipping cream, but it is quite pricey, so I used the full-fat coconut milk alternative. I used the tikka masala and naan PUL recipe. My husband and I didn’t notice any heat, so I’ll certainly increase the spice level next time. Big win! Yum!
Definitely a winner. So good!
I just made this and WOW. I am not much of a cook I am pretty lazy and mainly eat leftovers and sandwiches but I wanted to get my health in check so I made this and I honestly cannot believe that I managed to make something like this.
I used coconut milk which added an amazing almost tropical flavor and I think I accidentally added sesame seeds instead of mustard seeds but it still worked. My dish almost looked identical to hers without me having to add any food coloring or something like that to bring out the beautiful red color. Instead of cashews I garnished it with some coriander it went really well together.
I will definitely make this again and I am really glad to have made the decision to buy this app. Now I can finally eat tofu and actually enjoy it for once
Super easy and tasty, highly recommended!
I made it with rice. It was delicious.
We just had this amazing dish for dinner and omg that was amazing! We are definitely doing it again! Thanks for lifting the weight of the mental load at dinner time!
Wow! So tasty! I never realised that a good squeeze of fresh lime juice could make such a difference in the taste and experience of a dish. Instead of soy yogurt and -cream, I used coconut yogurt and -milk.
So easy for such flavour!
Made this multiple times now with both tofu and mock chicken. We love this recipe!
Another success with that recipe in my family!!
This was so yummy I couldn't believe it was tofu. I ended up marinating the tofu for about 36 hours, then cooked it in a skillet. Next time I will bake it to firm it up a little. Masala sauce was spectacularly delicious and I will use that portion of the recipe for all my masalas. I didn’t have the vegan cream and yoghurt so I substituted oat milk for all of it. Highly recommend this recipe!!!
So creamy! It was super quick and really good
Indian curries aren't usually my favourite but I really loved this one, I used an Oatly oat Greek yoghurt and the sauce was so velvety... Would definitely make again!
So so good 🥰
I love a good curry but this is one of best I have made every think was so tasty 😋
So tasty! I made it with smoked (firm) tofu and loved it. The flavour of the dish (I served it with Basmati rice) is fantastic.
Delicious!
Really delicious and so easy to make. I had all the ingredients for the tikka masala spice. Definitely recommend making this homemade with the recipe from this app. So flavourful ♥️
Very very nice! I used vegan chicken pieces instead of tofu, it was delicious.
Delicious and easy. So flavorful! I left out the chili and added an extra pinch of black pepper and some peas. The whole family loved it!
So delicious! And truly so filling! I thought the serving size looked pretty small before trying this, but it’s super rich and you don’t need a ton to feel super satisfied. Will definitely be making this again!
Tastes sooooo good and is so quick 💪😋
What brand do for soy recommend for cooking cream? (( Thank you! )) Coconut milk is used in most dishes in U.S. I'm really not a fan of coconut milk, because its so heavy and dense. Can I use raw cashews (I usually whip it with almond milk) I know cooking cream is heavier than regular plant-based milks.
Absolute perfection!
Really delicious🌟
My daughter loves it!
really quick and delicious 🫶🏼
obsessed! we make this ALL the time!
When they say quick, it is really quick!! I’ve made this dish in less than 30 min, and managed to make it after work and before my family arrived home hungry for dinner. My 4-year-old daughter gobbled up two servings! And I got compliments from my (non-vegan) husband! 🤩🤩 Thank you PUL team for such a delicious meal! 🏆
LOVE it 😍😍😍
Tasty and comforting. Love it!
I love this! I have tried quiet a lot of different vegan recipes for tikka masala - also some that took hours to make - but I always end up doing this again. Simply because it is the best one! And because it is soo easy and quick, I have time to make the PUL recipe for homemade naan, which really elevate the dish!
Love this
👍🏻
Right after trying this for the first time I invited friends over to cook it for them. One of the best vegan recipes I've found so far - even among this site's recipes, which are all fabulous :)
So good!!
Super easy and delicious! My friend even said it was the best curry he’s ever eaten :-)
Love this!! After making it a few times now I’m curious if there may be a slight shopping translation difference. Chili powder here in AL USA isn’t very spicy - as in hot. I’m wondering if in other areas it is that - hot? I’ve have started using a Cayenne powder to substitute at the recommended chili powder amount for extra spice and it’s perfect.
I haven't even gotten to try the recipe itself, as your printing interface is pure bullp**p and won't format a decent page. The "print picture" mark is completely ignored, after deleting the picture from the page manually it'd split the "directions" after the very first item to another page although there's plenty of space left... It feels like getting to work is the hardest part, but not in the "usual way". Please change that, as the recipe itself sounds awesome. I'll find my workarounds and then cook it, but I'm heckin' annoyed at the moment.
Delicious! I made it for lunch today. The portion size is rather small, so I had a side of your garden dill dip with it and I feel blissfully fed 😋
Great dish! I used fenugreek seeds instead of mustard seeds and made the PUL tikka masala mix. My only complaint is that I am too lazy to methodically turn every piece of tofu for even browning, but that is a self-criticism and not reflective of the recipe.
Love this recipe! So delicious! Thank you! 🥰
We eat a fair amount of tofu in our house, but I tend to stick to the same handful of recipes and end up getting bored. This definitely broke me out of my tofu rut! The sauce is so delicious and it all came together amazingly fast! I used almonds instead of cashews and they gave it a really nice crunch. The homemade spice blend is definitely a winner.
Phenomenal! Especially considering how easy this recipe is to make. Blown away by the ease of the naan recipe as well, a perfect pairing
Very tasty and easy!!
We really enjoyed this recipe! We substituted the yogurt cream and soy cream with coconut milk and a little bit of ricotta (just because we had it in the fridge) and it turned out great. But it wasn’t really hot at all? I even doubled the tikka masala spice. Any ideas how to make this hotter?
Thanks!
Love this recipe! It does what it says on the box: super quick, easy, but big on flavor. I definitely recommend!
I cooked this with my mom yesterday evening and it was delicious!! Loved the taste and it's a completely filling dish. :) Will definitely try this again :D
It’s very bad with coconut milk
This looks so good! I love tikka masala and I'll have to try this.
I do have a question: Sadia has mentioned before that European chili powder is pretty different from North American chili powder. Here in the US it's more of a blend that's used in Latin American/Tex Mex cooking. Is the chili powder in this recipe more like pure ground chili peppers?
Thanks!
This recipe is sooo good! Simple and effective: super delicious. I made it once with rice and spinach on the side for a simple evening dinner, and once with two other PUL recipes for a dinner with friends: the garlic naan and the potato and green pea curry. It was just a feast and everybody thought all the food was so delicious. Thank you for sharing these amazing, often fairly easy, recipes!
I made this today, it was so delicious! I love tofu and tikka masala, so this was perfect.
This is SUCH a good recipe! It's become a staple in our household now and I'm so happy I found it. Even though I'm more of an OG butter chicken fan (but I can't handle dairy), I actually liked this recipe more. It's so filling along with the naan that I sometimes omit the tofu!
HOW??? How did I live without this until today??? This is going straight to my "go to" recipe for quick dinners. I had all ingredients ready, and when I came from the gym, in less than half hour the tofu tikka masala was on my plate. I used regular yogurt, but had vegan cream...and oh my sweet Goddess of indian food! Thank you so much for sharing such high quality content for "regular people" :)))
I'm making this tikka masala again tonight, since my Indian husband loves it so much! A couple of weeks ago I made it for his colleagues who came over for dinner, including a couple of other Indians, and yes, they also loved it. I guess that says it all, if Indians love it, than it really must be good. 😉
First time cooking with tofu and I loved it!! Thanks. When is the app out ? :)
Actually, I'm not a big lover of Tikka Masala. But I had some leftover Tofu that I wanted to use and as I saw your video with the recipe, I gave it go. For Tikka Masala, it was very delicious. Still not my favorite dish, but I would cook it again and even my husband liked it. Thanks for all the ideas. You inspire me a lot when it comes to the question what to cook during the week.
Love from Germany
It would be cool if there was a timer for step 3 too!
This recipe is amazing! I’ve been making it ever since you posted the youtube video with the recipe. I only switch the vegan cooking cream and yoghurt with dairy as I’m not vegan, but otherwise I follow the recipe.
This recipe is divine!
I enjoyed cooking it, the tasting was delicious. Excellent also for kids.
Thank you so much, your channel created a significant added value in my cooking skills.
Amazing recipe. Again, your repice never disappoints
This is truly an amazing dish... it takes so little time (even if I decided to use the same pot for the tofu and for the sauce, I still doubt it even took 25 minutes from start to belly.) and still comes out so fantastic! It's one of the very best dishes I have tried and a super easy recipe, too - if I could give it 6 stars out of 5, I definitely would.
I made this last night and loved it! I haven't access to soy cream so I made cashew cream and it was divine! I fried the tofu in my air fryer and it was perfect and cut down on my time at the stove. Will definitely be making this again and I have leftover spice mix for next time too. For leftovers today I added steamed kale which was yummy and garnished with cilantro! Thanks for another wonderful recipe.
Only five minutes total to press and cut the tofu; chop the onion, tomato, and cashews; grate the ginger; juice the lime; and measure the eight other ingredients? Maybe for The Flash.
I enjoyed the recipe well enough, but dishonest prep times are a pet peeve of mine, and they're rampant on cooking sites. Why? Just be honest, it's okay.
Simply delicious and warm, perfect for a winter day, many thanks for the recipe! I did not have cashews so I used walnuts instead but it was amazing, the gentle sweet taste it gave to the sauce is incredible. Also I did not have the tikka masala ready at home, so I used your recipe to mix the ingredients, the feature to mark the used spices is extremely helpful, you have a fantastic website. The only tricky part was to make golden all sides of the tofu cubes. Is there a quick way or insider suggestion how to rotate the tofu cubes quickly or more effective?
I made this dish two weeks ago and it was quite good. So I decided to make it again yesterday. My husband bought vanilla flavored soy yogurt instead of plain yogurt and I realised it after I used it in the dish, I was very upset with myself, but when I tasted it, it tasted just the same as the last time, despite using the wrong ingrediënt. For the next time I am tempted to try some other flavored yogurt besides vanilla, jk hehe. Thank you for this recipe.
Love this recipe! Quick and easy, perfect to make ahead and enjoy later throughout the week!
Thanks for the recipe!
what kind of chili powder do you use? The one I have is not very spicy at all? Just curious.
Thanks!
This is such a lovely recipe! Really quick but very delicious. I have made this twice already the past two weeks, definitely recommend!!!
Made it today and overate like it was christmas, unbeliveable delicious. I had to make some changes because I didn‘t have everything at home: I left out the joghurt and just took more cream (I did the same with the naan) and I swapt the tofu for some dry soy „meat“ I had in my pantry. It worked out perfectly well and I will cook it again a lot of times.
Thank you so much!
Wow! Just tried this recipe and it was PERFECT!! We don’t have Indian food widely available in Mexico and I’m just so happy I can now make my own 🥳
This was AMAZING and so easy to prepare. Didn't have lime so I added your Afghan Chutney to the top (the chutney has been a staple in my house over the last year and has a permanent spot in my fridge) for some acidicy and it was perfect!
I second the below reviewer that said you need a physical cookbook. I would swoop that up and a copy for all my family in a heartbeat! Thank you thank you thank you for these recipes.
Amazing!
I just tried this recipe today and I am shocked. And in love because this dish is superior 😍❤️Even my family who isn't the biggest Indian food fan found it delicious...the different textures hit just different. I loved the crunch of the cashews and the softness of the tofu paired with the flavourful sauce😍still in food heaven😊I made it with your homemade tikka masala mix and I think it couldn't have been any better❤️
20/10 !!! This dish right here??? Amazing! I went with the coconut milk substitute and I couldn't find soy unsweetened yogurt so I used vanilla almond milk yogurt 😅. I was nervous about the sweetness but it all balanced out honestly. Another top tier recipe 👌🏾
10/10 - so tasty!
Hi!!! I absolutely loved this recipe.😍😍😍
Ive started to get into cooking just recently and I'd love to try more recipes like this, easy delicious.
This recipe was absolutely delicious!! All the flavours and textures came together so perfectly and I made the PUL naan recipe to accompany it too which was so tasty. I already cannot wait to make this again!
My goodness this was incredibly tasty. Will be making it again!
I was really excited to try it, it really is quick to prepare but unfortunately the taste was disappointing - it had a strong mushroom aroma for some reason... I used curry powder, maybe that was the reason? Anyway it was worth a try :)
That was the recipe that I'm looking forward to making! Can I swap cooking cream with anything? I never have cooking cream at hand as I don't use it for anything (and vegan or vegetarian version is hard to come by where I live).
Also - hope that someday there will be a physical copy of your updated cookbook! It is my favorite - it's gotten me through the pandemic!
Thank you for yet another amazing recipe! It's very similar to a recipe an Indian friend taught me years ago, but she eyeballed everything so I could never get it to taste quite how hers did. I will definitely be making this regularly.
This recipe is perfect! I love Tikka Massala and never got it righty thanks so much.
Loved it! I have done a vegan tikka masala before but I will definitely be using this recipe over the others from now on. It’s full of flavour. Annoyingly I forgot to squeeze over the lime but it just means I’ll have to make it again in a couple of days. Thank you for yet another great recipe!
Is it freezer friendly?
Tasted incredible! The cashews made it for me.
I have to say that mine came out a bit thicker and drier than the usual tikka masala I've eaten in restaurants (and the one seen in the video). Maybe I just need to take it off the heat earlier next time?
It was also much redder in color than orange. I think I went overboard with the tomato paste, haha.
Thanks for the recipe, anyways :)
The flavors were bold and absolutely delicious!!
Just made this and it's so good. 10/10 would recommend! Will definitely be making this again.
One of the best !
I'm sorry Sadia but I just can't stop trying your recipes! I made this one today and it was delicious!!! It has that Indian kick to it and I'm all about that
I don't love cooking, but this was really easy and super delicious. Will be making it again!
Okay WOW this recipe was unbelievably good! 20/10 recommend. How are these recipes FREE?!
It is night here, in India and I realized I was running out of time for dinner. Made the tikka masala, including the homemade powder and wow, it definitely hits the spot! My family loved it, especially the spices prepared were fresh and vibrant. Thanks, PUL and Team! Looking forward for such wonderful recipes in the future.