Have you ever eaten tofu box? It is a box that holds tofu as an ingredient, and it is like a treasure box with all kinds of ingredients, both meat and vegetarian. Has everyone's curiosity risen about this dish? If you have some bits and pieces of ingredients at home that are more miscellaneous and in smaller quantities, then go ahead and buy a few blocks of tofu to create a delicious tofu box.
Tofu box is a dish of which place
Tofu box, also known as Shandong tofu box, Qiguo tofu box, is a traditional Chinese dish in Zibo City, Shandong Province, belonging to the 鲁菜系.
Nutritional value of tofu box
The main raw material of tofu box is tofu, which we know is made from soybeans as raw material, and it is rich in vegetable protein, which is one of the best sources of supplemental protein and calcium, and contains almost no fat, so you don't have to worry about the problem of obesity. The auxiliary ingredients of the tofu box can be mixed and matched by yourself, carrots, chicken, lean pork, green peppers, black fungus, ham, mushrooms, shrimp, mushrooms and so on can be used to make the tofu box. So don't look at the name of the tofu box like a vegetarian dish, but it is, as the name suggests, a box containing a lot of good for the human body ingredients, so if you don't know how to match it, you might as well have a hodgepodge of them, put them into the tofu box in a brain, so that it is both delicious and nutritious.
Allusion to the tofu box
As early as the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Xianfeng, the south end of the Boshan Street, there is a family name, the name of Dengke, nicknamed Zhang Jiu, in the capital called "Zhentai Silk Satin Village" in the big name as a master chef. This person is smart and capable, highly skilled, in Kyoto, known as "Boshan chef first person.
About the Guangxu years, more than 50 years old Zhang Dengke returned to his hometown to recover from illness. Less than a year's work, he got well. Some of the merchants in Boshan, knowing that Zhang Dengke is a master cook, they opened a restaurant with him in the hill where the kiln industry was very developed at that time, and named it "Qingheju".
One day, Zhang Dengke in Beijing when the shopkeeper to Zhoucun to do goods, on the way to visit him in Boshan. Guests to the Qinghe poly when it is the evening, the pavilion prepared dishes are all sold out, there is no decent dishes to entertain the guests. Zhang Dengke had an idea, with the main ingredient of Boshan high-quality tofu, do a box-style vegetarian dishes, the main ingredients are fried fly tofu, seaweed, fungus, powdered nuts, etc. into the box, the whole appearance of a box, deep-fried into a golden brown color, after thickening, there is a sense of golden box. Seats, tired of eating the guests, eat this unique flavor of the vegetarian dishes, praise.
Guests asked Zhang Dengke dish hall of fame, he had to tell the truth, the guests see the shape of the dish, and tasted the flavor, blurted out: "really like a gold box, call it a gold box it". A guest here, very elegant, took over the conversation, said: "According to the eating method, called the gold box is better to call the opening of the box to take the treasure more reasonable.
So, "gold box" this dish gradually appeared in the mountain part of the kiln owner's banquet. When this dish appeared, is a "big box-shaped", eating is very inconvenient. Zhang Dengke will be changed to a number of "small box" into a "big box".
Tofu box
Ingredients:
Tofu, lean pork, dried seaweed, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, green peppers, green onions, ginger, garlic, oyster sauce, cooking wine, white pepper, sugar, salt, moderate
1, cut the tofu into long 5 cm, 3 cm wide rectangular;
2, cut the tofu under 6 to 7% of the heat of the oil to fry through;
3, the fried tofu to cool, in the surface of the surface of a small opening, the inside of the tofu heart scooped out;
4, the pork, dried seaweed, mushrooms, carrots, peppers, are cut into small dices, onion, ginger and garlic cut into pieces, and then cut into small pieces. With onion, ginger and garlic burst incense into the dry seaweed stir-fry, add meat stir-fry after adding wine, oyster sauce, sugar, white pepper, salt, stir-fry after adding the other vegetables and stir-fry;
5, the fried stuffing added to the tofu box, set up the plate into the steaming pot steamer for 5 to 7 minutes;
6, carrots cut into slices of elephants eye, onion and garlic slices of the bursting pan with carrot slices stir-fry, add oyster sauce, Soy sauce, sugar and the right amount of water to cook into a gravy poured on the tofu out of the pot.