I have to gluten digestive intolerance and have to avoid soy and sesame due to allergies. I recently stumbled across Burmese tofu while googling; apparently it is made with chickpeas and yellow peas. Where can I buy it in Orange County, CA?
I checked Mothers Market near me and they have hemp “tofu” (I picked it up today — we will see how it tastes). I would also like Burmese tofu and try that as well.
Thanks in advance!
Just as a note, I tried pan-frying the hemp tofu ("Tempt" : https://hudsonriverfoods.com/products... ) and the tofu just melted instead of browning :(
In the San Francisco Bay Area which I've been told has the largest concentration of Burmese restaurants outside of Asia, the restaurants that serve the yellow pea tofu make it themselves. I've never seen it for sale in a market. So you'll probably need to find a Burmese restaurant that has it on the menu if you want to try it.
Whole Foods does not carry it down here in OC. Someone on Nextdoor suggested I try Nina’s on El Toro
Again, I find no evidence on the web that anyone is producing Burmese tofu commercially other than restaurants that make it for their own menus. The reason you can't find it is that nobody is making it for sale in grocery stores.
I have shopped at Nina's in the last 18 months and it does not carry Burmese products. You might be able to purchase the yellow pea flour there from its Indian products to make your own at home. But I would call first.
I haven't gotten around to trying the recipe yet myself, but when I saved it for future reference, I noticed that the Burma, Inc. recipe calls for yellow "split peas". Do you know if they actually mean what I think of as "European" peas, split, or if it's a typical Western/westernized misnomer for split South-Asian-subtype chickpeas (i.e., chana dal)? I don't know that it would make a big difference in terms of whether the recipe "works", but the flavor of the two is so different that I'd expect it to affect the flavor of the tofu, even if it holds together properly, etc...
I think it's chana dal, as these appear in other dishes in Burmese cuisine where they are whole and easy to identify and called "yellow peas".
Mike you’re right.
OP - this is actually pretty easy to make. You can even do it in the microwave.
Use Bobs red mill garbanzo flour which can be found at most regular grocery stores. Or you can get much larger bags at indian stores (physical or online) or on amazon - look for “besan.”
There's a Burmese restaurant, Mutiara Food and Market in Inglewood, CA (sorry, not Orange County). As nobody has been able to find a place in Orange County that sells Burmese tofu; you might be willing to go further from home.
They have a small grocery store in the restaurant. I didn't notice if they sold tofu. If they don't have it in the grocery store; I bet they would sell it to you anyway if you asked nicely.
My husband and I ate there a couple of weeks ago. The food was delicious, unlike anything I've had previously and reasonably priced. I recommend going on the weekend as some of their most interesting dishes are exclusively served on weekends.
Also, they've recently changed their hours. The hours on their website and on Yelp are incorrect. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday they are closed between 4:30 P.M. and 5:30 P.M.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/mutiara-food...
A warning as you are allergic to soy; the protein in most of the dishes we ordered (we're vegetarians) was dried soy beans.
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