Put the Lime in the Coconut 🍋‍🟩🥥🌪️

a new simmer sauce and sandwich obsession

This is an $18 sandwich in LA

Finally, our last simmer sauce in this series has arrived. I know that I have kept you waiting but I promise it is worth it. This Coconut Simmer Sauce is the most versatile, and the easiest to make by far. All you need is a good blender and a strainer. You throw all the ingredients right into the blender, including a chopped lime, blend and then strain. Even the clumsiest among us can do all of this in less than 5 minutes. I’ve been throwing whole limes into the blender for years, ever since I learned how Brazilians make their beloved limonada. The only trick is to pulse the blender instead of letting it rip. This extracts the flavor form everything, including the lime, without pulverizing it and making the sauce bitter. You’ve got this. It’s so so easy.

Next week I will show you how to use this sauce to make a soup and some delicious brothy beans, but this week we’re doing something different. We’re making a sandwich. Yes, a sandwich. The tofu is marinated and then breaded using our simmer sauce, then while it bakes, we use the leftover marinade to make a sando sauce. You will be very impressed with yourself. I also used this tofu and leftover sando sauce to make super easy rice bowls all week and never got tired of it.

I’m very into this tofu rn

Before we get to the umm… meat of the recipe, I wanted to share my new favorite for getting the water out of your tofu so you can get all that flavor in.