Super garlicky Indo-Chinese garlic pepper chicken has deep flavors from black pepper, green chili, and ginger and garlic in the sauce! It’s a 1-pan dinner that you can make using your protein of choice. For this vegan version, we are using tofu. (nut-free with gluten-free and soy-free options)

This garlic pepper chicken is another one of my favorite recipe. Indo-Chinese cuisine is a fusion cuisine which came about when Chinese migrants as well as the Indians in the region adjusted Chinese recipes to use Indian spices and more Indian flavors.

There are some similar recipes to Chinese cuisine, as well as a lot of new and different flavors and textures. Often the names of the similar recipes have different spellings, and that is an indicator that it is an Indo-Chinese recipe and not a Chinese recipe.

This garlic pepper chicken uses this amazing sauce with a ton of garlic. You chop the garlic into small pieces, but do not mince it, because you want that garlic to show up in the sauce. Then you also add a lot of black pepper to the sauce, as well as to the protein that you plan to use.

Traditionally, you toss the chicken in the garlic, black pepper, and a lot of cornstarch. Then, fry it up until crisp, and fold it into the sauce. You can make it saucier, or you can make it more like a starter with a thicker sauce by adding extra cornstarch. Either way, it has this delicious garlicky flavor that is absolutely addictive!

You can use other plant-based proteins instead of the tofu, such as chickpea flour tofu, pumpkin seed tofu, seitan, soy curls, or white beans or chickpeas.

To coat the tofu, like to use a mixture of cornstarch and white rice flour to make the coating on the tofu, and then pan fry it. The rice flour gives it this nice crispy texture, as if you deep fried the tofu, and it is perfect in this Indo-Chinese garlic pepper chicken recipe! If you are planning to bake it, omit the rice flour, and use more cornstarch instead.

Why You’ll Love Indo-Chinese Garlic Pepper Chicken

• crispy tofu in garlicky sauce with flavors of ginger, green chili, and bell pepper
• easy 1-pan dish that works as an appetizer or an entree
• versatile! Thicken the sauce to your liking, and use your protein of choice.
• Naturally nut-free with easy gluten-free and soy-free options.

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Super delicious gochujang tacos with creamy, crunchy yum sauce slaw are incredibly easy to make without a ton of ingredients. Crispy gochujang tofu, creamy gochujang slaw dressing, sweet spicy maple gochujang drizzle! Triple gochujang!

These tacos! They celebrate gochujang in a way you’ve never experienced! Crispy gochujang tofu! Creamy gochujang sauce for the slaw and for dressing! And a sweet spicy gochujang glaze to finish! Triple gochujang.

These tacos are super delicious and amazing! They come together fairly quickly and use many same ingredients in the different components of the taco. Despite that, there’s so much overall texture and flavor that they’re fabulous to whip up and enjoy on any weekday or on the weekend.

I love to make this tofu. It’s just super flavorful. You’ll want to double or triple the tofu recipe, so you’ll have leftover tofu handy to use in salads, wraps, sandwiches, bowls, etc. throughout the week.

Gochujang tacos are very simple to make. We take some tofu and marinate it in a gochujang, ginger-garlic, soy, and maple mixture, and then bake it.

Meanwhile, make the crunchy, creamy slaw. We make a quick, creamy dressing using gochujang again along with some lime juice, maple syrup, and non-dairy yogurt or vegan mayo. You use that dressing to make the slaw and to dress the tacos later on, so you don’t have to make multiple dressings.

I usually like to finish it off with a gochujang-maple drizzle. You don’t have to do this, but it adds some extra heat and a flavor punch—so definitely try to make that one as well.

These tacos are fantastic when the slaw is fresh and crunchy, the tofu is spicy and chewy and crisp! The creamy dressing adds richness, and the gochujang drizzle adds sweet heat. The pickled jalapeños bring a tangy heat that ties it all together.

Why You’ll Love Gochujang Tacos

• crispy gochujang tofu with creamy, spicy, crunchy slaw in warm tortillas
• simple ingredients – slaw and tacos use the same sauce!
• versatile! Use the tofu to make tacos or to top salads or bowl meals or in sandwiches or wraps!
• naturally nut-free with gluten-free and soy-free options

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