Love To Bake Wok Messed Tofu 涡塌豆腐- Pressed Tofu #1




涡塌豆腐Wo Tart Dau Foo
The “tart” hither is the same equally inwards “一塌糊涂 Yat Tart Woo Tou” which means “in a consummate mess”, “In verbalise disorder”.

So how come upwardly this tofu is given this name?
It doesn’t expression messed up, does it?

Actually, the tofu is slightly messed up.



One twenty-four hr menses you lot decided to accept a stroll, too walked out of the theatre alongside perfectly coifed pilus too a crisply ironed shirt.

Then came the rain, caught you lot without alert too drenched you lot from summit to toe.
Oh no! You’ll endure inwards such a mess. Totally "Drop Soup Chicken 落汤鸡"
(lok tong gai, it’s a Cantonese proverb to pull beingness pelting drenched, cipher to practise alongside a existent chicken)

That’s what happened to this tofu.

Firstly it was fried, given a crispy trouble solid crust. Then it was doused alongside stock to cook….
What happened to the crust? What nation you lot then?
Is the tofu messed up? LOL.




Wok Messed Tofu 涡塌豆腐
Source: Wei Chuan Cookbook
Cuisine type : Peking

half dozen cubes of pressed tofu (2X2X1inches)
¾ loving cup all role flour (approximately)
ii eggs
1 Tbsp jump onion (white parts, thinly slices)
1 Tbsp really finely minced ginger
1 Tbsp jump onion (green parts, sliced for sprinkling)
20ml ShaoXing vino (1 Chinese soup spoon)
½ tsp salt
½ tsp chicken stock powder
½ loving cup water
½ Tbsp sesame oil

1. Slice each tofu into 4 pcs (2X1X ½ inches).
2. Coat each piece alongside flour. Whisk the eggs.
3. Combine H2O alongside chicken stock powder, tabular array salt too sesame oil. Taste it, it should endure oversalted merely non toooooo salty.
4. Heat a pan too set inwards close ¼ loving cup of crude oil (give it close 2mm of crude oil all about inwards pan)
5. Dip flour coated tofu pieces inwards egg, ane past times ane too pan kid until golden on both sides. (I fried them inwards ii batches, hence I floured the sec batch later I did the rootage batch). Poke the fried tofu alongside a fork (lengthwise).
6. Dish upwardly too drain. Leave 1 Tbsp of crude oil inwards pan.(or practise the side past times side stride inwards a wok)
7. Use high heat. Put inwards chopped ginger too laid until fragrant.
8. Put inwards white role of jump onions too sauté until fragrant.
9. Return the fried tofu to wok. Gently toss the tofu about for a while.
10. Put inwards shaoxing wine, too it volition sizzle greatly. And you lot tin odour the wine.
11. Then pour inwards the stock too permit it come upwardly dorsum to a boil.
12. Continue to laid on depression heat(flipping ane time halway) until all the stock is absorbed.
13. Dish up, too sprinkle alongside greenish jump oinions.


Verdict:
Take banker's complaint that this recipe makes quite a large plate of tofu. You tin count the pieces too invention for yourself how much tin your identify unit of measurement eat too and hence driblet dead on to cook. Simple looking merely bursting alongside flavour. It could grab your guests alongside surprise to meet how a bland looking dish could endure flavourful. This dish tin endure prepared inwards advance too reheated inwards the microwave or past times steaming, if you’re expecting guests.

Shown 20/24pcs that I had because the plate can't represent all 24.
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