Shape Your Future Healthy Kitchen: Tofu Lentil Tinga

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TULSA, Okla. — Tofu Lentil Tinga

Tinga is simply a Puebloan crockery of chipotle, herb and bulb sauce, traditionally served connected crisp tostadas and finished with toppings similar crema, avocado, salsa, and/or shredded lettuce.

Ingredients:

1 lb steadfast tofu
1 7.5 ounce tin chipotle successful adobo sauce
1 tablespoonful canola oil
1 achromatic oregon reddish onion, thinly sliced
5-6 ail cloves, smashed and chopped
1 lb brown, greenish oregon reddish lentils, picked done and rinsed
2 15-ounce cans diced tomatoes (preferably occurrence roasted)
1 6-ounce tin herb paste (no brackish added)
1 caller oregon dried bay leaf
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 teaspoons crushed cumin
1 quart h2o oregon low-sodium rootlike stock
10 ounces frozen corn, (or caller equivalent)
Mexican-style crema oregon sour cream, for serving
Sliced avocado, for serving

Directions:

Drain liquid from tofu, pat tofu with insubstantial towels and spot successful a tiny mixing bowl. Mash with a fork until good crumbled. Set aside.
Pour chipotles onto a cutting committee and chop well. (alternatively, mash successful a vessel with a fork) Set aside.
Heat a ample crockery cookware oregon Dutch oven implicit mean heat. Add canola lipid and vigor until shimmering. Add bulb and ail and sauté until onions are wilted and substance is fragrant.
Add tofu, lentils, canned tomatoes and paste, herbs and spices, and h2o oregon stock. Bring substance to a bubble, crook vigor to low, screen with a lid and let to navigator 25-30 minutes oregon until lentils are soft. If substance is excessively thin, simmer uncovered until substance becomes desired thickness.
Stir successful maize and vigor through.

Serving suggestions: Serve tinga arsenic you would a vessel of chili oregon arsenic a taco oregon burrito. Top with salsa, sour cream, shredded lettuce, avocado oregon guacamole, and/or caller lime juice.

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