A simple, easy, yet delicious home-cooked favorite.

Ingredients

• Fresh white rice
• Fresno peppers, one to two
• Extra firm tofu, a full block and a half for ~two people
• Garlic, like 4 cloves finely chopped or sliced thin
• Soy sauce
• Toasted sesame sauce
• Sesame seeds
• Scallions for topping
• Salt
• Fermented chili oil
• For more weight: add sweet potato slices.

Directions

If sweet potato slices, then slice and add to a medium skillet of some kind with oil. Start cooking them, eventually, add cubed tofu. Should look like three rubik's cubes worth of tofu. Push potato aside, fry tofu right on skillet with no additional oil. Yet. Add salt to the tofu directly. Cook and cook, eventually spread sesame seed sauce over tofu. Then a few good splashes of soy sauce. Then add fresno pepper and, after some time, add garlic, however you chose to cut it. Let sit, and then stir it all together and fry for a bit, and fry for a bit, and fry for a bit, let all the flavors meld together.

Grab fresh white rice from your pan; or, if reheating, add a little oil to a saucepan, add the rice in, wet the rice with some water so it doesn’t go dry, and reheat on low heat. When rice is ready and tofu is ready, fill one side of the bowl with the steamy white rice. Add tofu to the other side. Sprinkle chopped scallions on top; sprinkle some additional chili garlic oil all around in a halo. Serve.