Tofu Recipe with Soy Mirin Sauce (Dubu Jorim 두부조림) (2024)

I came back home yesterday from the cold east coast winter weather…and what a glorious day it is today here back at home. It certainly felt like spring was coming ..and my Pink Breath of Heaven plant thought so too!

So, I was visiting my sister #2 in the east coast and I took my camera with me to take pictures of our cooking. However I was not able to post since my sister’s computer was not working. Great thing about cooking in my sister’s kitchen was that she had all these fabulous pots for me to use. Me and my other sisters always tease her about how she loves to buy all these expensive pots but never gets around to really cooking in them. Not to say that she’s a bad cook, she’s a great cook but she is too busy to cook but with all the intentions to cook (when she buys a pot or a pan).

Anyway – thanks to her – in the next few posts, you will notice that my food is pictured in these exquisite Staub pots… I wish I had them… they were really nice to cook in. 🙂 Someday…

Ok. Now to business..

Dubu Jorim (두부조림) is a great Korean tofu recipe that is a very basic, common side dish found in Korean meals. It tastes great both warm and cold.

Ingredients:

• 1 pack 16 oz firm tofu
• 1/2 yellow onion sliced
• 4 tsp vegetable oil (canola or any other mild flavor oil)
• frying pan
• shallow pot to cook the tofu
• pretty dish to hold the final Tofu Jorim

Sauce

• 3 T Soy Sauce (Jin Ganjang) – Read More here about Soy Sauces
• 1 T rice wine (mirin)
• 2 T water
• 1 -2 tsp sugar (adjust to your liking)
• 1 tsp red chili powder
• 2 green onions chopped
• 1 tsp roasted sesame seeds
• 1 tsp sesame oil

Directions

1. Cut up the tofu in half and then into 1/3 inch (0.8 cm) thick slices as pictured below.

2. Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium heat.

3. When the oil is heated, lay out the cut tofu as shown and fry the tofu about 5 min. on each side until lightly browned.

4. While the tofu is being cooked, make the sauce and set it aside.

5. Layer the fried tofu slices and sliced onions into a shallow pot. The pot used here is a Staub saute pan.

6. Pour the prepared soy mirin sauce mixture onto the tofu stack. Make sure the sauce is distributed evenly throughout.

7. Turn the heat to medium and immediately lower to simmer when sauce starts to bubble. Simmer for 20 min. until the sauce is mostly gone as shown below:

This Tofu recipe is so good that it can stand up as a stand alone dish with just rice and perhaps some side salad or other fish dish. Any leftover can be stored in the fridge for days and can be eaten cold with warm rice. Cold Dubu Jorim tastes totally different so you HAVE TO try it! Also great for lunch boxes for kids.

Enjoy eating!