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I’m a total cheat – this recipe is just a variation on my peanut butter chickpea curry. Pretty much the only differences between that one and this peanut butter coconut tofu are that this version has crispy fried tofu in place of the chickpeas, and I served it with noodles instead of rice.
In all honesty, my primary reason for wanting to recreate the recipe was because I enjoyed licking the peanut butter spoon so much last time that I just had to do it again – and I can’t quite bring myself to literally eat peanut butter by the spoonful (I’m saving that for my retirement years… got to have something to look forward to).
I know not everyone is a tofu fan, but I’ve definitely grown to love it more and more over the years. I…
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