Recipe name: mirror box tofu
Cuisine: Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine
Type: other categories
General characteristics
Mirror box tofu was originally created by Liu Junying, a famous chef of Wuxi Yingbinlou Restaurant, and cooked with Wuxi specialty "small box" tofu. In the 1940s, Liu Junying, the chef of Yingbinlou Restaurant, improved the home-cooked dish-oily tofu meat stuffing, changed oily tofu into small boxes of tofu, and added shrimp to the meat stuffing. Cooked tofu stuffing is full of heart, beautiful, delicate and tender, so it is called "meat is gold, shrimp is jade, and gold is inlaid with white jade box". Because the tofu block looks like a mirror box for women to dress up, it is named mirror box tofu. This dish is orange-red, fresh and mellow, with a combination of meat and vegetables. Suitable for all ages, it is a famous Wuxi dish that appeals to both refined and popular tastes.
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Basic materials
Small box of tofu 1 (about 500g), less than 250g of pork; 12 shrimp (with tail shell), 20g water-borne mushrooms, 5g green beans; Shaoxing wine 50g, refined salt 4g, soy sauce 20g, sugar 25g, tomato sauce 25g, monosodium glutamate 1.5g, chopped green onion 15g, water starch 25g, pork soup 150g, cooked lard 15g, sesame oil 10g.
1. Put the minced meat into a bowl, add Shaoxing wine (25g) and refined salt (1.5g), and stir to make meat stuffing. Cut the tofu into 4 pieces, then evenly cut each piece into 3 rectangular pieces (each piece is about 4.5 cm long, 3 cm wide and 3 cm thick), and drain with *** 12 pieces.
2. Heat the wok on high fire, scoop in the soybean oil, when it is 80% hot, slide the tofu into the colander, fry until the tofu looks soft and golden, remove it with the colander, and drain the oil. Dig a part of tender tofu in the middle of each piece of tofu with a spoon handle (the bottom can't be dug through, and the four sides can't be broken), then fill in the meat stuffing, and then horizontally embed a prawn on the meat stuffing to make the mirror box tofu beef billet.
3. Heat a wok over high fire, scoop in soybean oil (25g), add chopped green onion, stir-fry until fragrant, and then add mushrooms and green beans. Remove the pan end from the fire, put the mirror box tofu green (shrimp facing down) into the pan neatly, then move it to high fire, and add Shaoxing wine (20g), soy sauce, white sugar, tomato sauce, pork soup and refined salt (2
4. After boiling, cover the pot, turn to low heat and cook for about 6 minutes until the meat stuffing is cooked, then remove the pot cover, put it on the fire, shake the wok, collect the thick soup, hook it with water starch, pour the cooked lard along the side of the pot, turn the tofu over, turn the shrimp up (keep the block intact and neatly arranged), and then pour sesame oil and slide it into the plate.
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Process prompt
1. When digging tofu with a spoon handle, be careful not to dig through the bottom and sides;
2. When thickening the tofu, pay attention to keeping the block shape intact and neatly arranged;
3. Due to the frying process, it is necessary to prepare1000g cooked soybean oil.
The taste of dishes
This dish is orange-red, fresh and mellow, suitable for all ages.
Formula stage chart
Soybean: Soybean should not be eaten with pig blood, bracken, shrimp skin, pig liver and yogurt.
Pork (fat and thin): Pork should not be eaten with dark plum, licorice, crucian carp, shrimp, pigeon meat, snail, almond, donkey meat, sheep liver, coriander, turtle, water chestnut, buckwheat, quail meat and beef. It is not advisable to drink a lot of tea after eating pork.
Shrimp: 1. Eating shrimp is forbidden to take a large amount of vitamin C at the same time, otherwise trivalent arsenic can be generated, which can cause death;
2. It is not suitable to eat with pork, which will damage sperm;
3. Avoid eating with dog meat, chicken, caviar, venison and pumpkin;
4. avoid sugar; Fruit juice is similar to shrimp. Eating it together will cause diarrhea.
Starch (broad bean): Broad bean should not be eaten with snails.