Easy Vegan Nasi Goreng

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 4 cups cooked rice
• 2 leeks, sliced
• 2 stalks celery, sliced
• 2 large onions, sliced
• 1 large carrot, julienned
• 1 red bell pepper, julienned
• extra firm tofu, cut into cubes (maybe marinated in ketjap or sate marinade)?
• 2 tablespoon peanut butter
• 2 tablespoon sambal oelek
• 1 tablespoon sucanat, or to taste
• salt, pepper, and ketjap manis to taste

Directions:

Fry tofu in a little oil until fairly crispy; remove and set aside. Add leeks, onion and celery to pan and fry for a few minutes. Add carrot and red pepper, cook another few minutes. Add peanut butter, sambal, brown vegan sugar, salt, pepper and ketjap and the tofu; simmer for 10 minutes or so to let flavours blend. Stir in rice, and simmer for another ten minutes or so, stirring occasionally. Serve.

Growing up a meat eater, nasi for me always had bacon in it, which gave it a nice smoky flavour. For anyone who doesn''t object to meat alternatives that look like the real thing (Yves makes a fairly decent veggie back bacon -- "Canadian bacon" to Americans), you could add a couple of slices of this with the tofu.

Serves: 6