Prepare ingredients: a piece of old tofu, a piece of scallion, a spoonful of soy sauce, a little green garlic, 20 grams of chopped pepper, and the right amount of salt.

1. Cut the old tofu into cubes with the size of 1cm, pour the water into the pot, add a little salt (it can remove the beany smell, and the tofu is not fragile), add the tofu, boil the water and blanch it for one minute, then pour off the water and put it on a plate.

Tofu blanching

2. Add a spoonful of soy sauce to tofu and sprinkle with chopped pepper. Pour water into the steamer, add tofu after the water boils, and steam for three minutes.

Steam for 3 minutes.

3. Cut the onion and chop the green garlic.

Cutting ingredients

4. Take the tofu out of the steamer and sprinkle with chopped green onion and minced garlic.

Sprinkle with ingredients

5. Pour peanut oil into the pot, and when the oil temperature rises to 80% heat (smoking state), pour it on the tofu to stimulate the fragrance of chopped pepper and chopped green onion.

Finished product production

Chopped pepper tofu is ready!

Nutrition and Taboo of Tofu

Tofu is a nutritious food, rich in protein, calcium, vitamins, minerals and fat. Has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening dryness, invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, clearing stomach, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. In addition, it has the functions of helping digestion, increasing nutrition and stimulating appetite.

It should be noted that although tofu has high nutritional value, it should not be eaten in excess, which may easily cause indigestion, abdominal distension and diarrhea, and affect the body's absorption of iron. It is suggested that gout patients should not eat it, because tofu is a high purine food, and eating it may cause gout attacks.