Duck blood tofu is popular not only because it is colorful, sweet and delicious, but also because it is very nutritious. Let's see how it is done!
Ingredients: tender tofu 200g, duck blood 150g, minced pork 50g, watercress 20g, onion, garlic, ginger, oil, soy sauce, salt, white pepper and chicken essence.
Exercise:
1 Cut tofu and duck blood into blocks, about half a thumb thick. Then add salt to the boiling water and cook for 3 minutes, then drain and set aside.
2. Peel and pat garlic, wash ginger, scrape and cut into fine powder, chop watercress and cut shallots into chopped green onion.
3. add oil to the pot and heat it up with a big fire. Stir-fry minced meat to dryness, stir-fry Jiang Mo garlic and watercress until fragrant, add soy sauce, salt and white sugar and stir-fry for a while.
4. Put tofu and duck blood clots into a wok, add a little boiling water, cook for 4 minutes on medium heat, add chicken essence and white pepper and mix well. When cooked, sprinkle with pepper and chopped chives.
What is duck blood tofu?
There are also some friends in the south who have doubts. What is duck blood tofu? Is it spicy? Is it really that delicious? Let me take you to learn more about duck blood tofu.
Duck blood tofu is a classic Han snack, belonging to Jiangsu cuisine. Its raw materials are simple duck blood and tofu, and its ingredients are also some particularly simple peppers, oil, salt and so on. Duck blood tofu is generally fried, but it is also made into soup. The method of frying duck blood tofu has been explained above. Next, let's take a look at duck blood tofu soup, which is a delicious and healthy dish and has always been loved by the public.
Nutritional value of duck blood tofu
Duck blood tofu combines duck blood and tofu. What special reaction will they have together? What benefits can it bring to our health?
1. Duck blood tofu is rich in protein. Tofu protein is a complete protein, which not only contains eight essential amino acids, but also has high nutritional value.
2. Duck blood tofu can reduce blood fat, protect vascular cells and prevent cardiovascular diseases. Duck blood can provide a variety of trace elements for human body, which is very beneficial to the recuperation of malnutrition, nephropathy and cardiovascular diseases.
3. Duck blood tofu can remove intestinal cavity, silt and dirt, purify harmful substances such as dust and metal particles, and promote defecation.
4, duck blood tofu is also good for weight loss and delicate skin. Duck blood and tofu contain a variety of vitamins and trace elements, which enrich blood and promote blood circulation. The iron content in duck blood is high, which exists in the form of heme iron and is easily absorbed and utilized by human body.
5, nourishing the liver. Duck is bloody and nutritious. It can nourish liver blood and treat anemia, and is one of the best products for nourishing liver.
How to distinguish duck blood tofu from real tofu
Such delicious and nutritious food will be very annoying if you buy fake food. There are a lot of "artificial blood" on the market, so how to distinguish between true and false? I'll teach you a few small ways to tell whether duck blood is good or bad.
1. First, choose a safe place to buy duck blood. For example, it would definitely be better to buy it in a regular supermarket.
2. Look at the section. There are many small holes in the cross section of duck blood because there is oxygen in the blood.
3. Look at the color. The color of fresh duck blood is generally dark red. It is not normal to have too bright colors, and it is not good to have black.
4. Touch your hands. Fresh duck blood will be broken by pressing it gently with your hand. If it feels very elastic, it means that it is mixed with glue chemicals.
5. smell it. Fresh duck blood has a faint smell of blood.
The difference between duck blood tofu and pig blood tofu
Careful friends must have discovered that besides duck blood tofu, sometimes there is pig blood instead of duck blood, that is, there will be pig blood tofu. What's the difference between them?
In fact, the practice of pig blood tofu is relatively old, and duck blood tofu is a popular fresh practice in recent years. Our eating habits lead us to think that pig blood is not as clean as duck blood and the taste is not smooth enough, so duck blood tofu is more popular.
Compared with pig blood tofu, duck blood tofu will taste better, more delicate and tender.
In terms of nutritional value, duck blood tofu is indeed better than pig blood tofu. Duck blood is superior to pig blood in the contents of iron, other minerals and cholesterol, and there is little difference in the contents of other nutrients. We eat duck blood tofu or pig blood tofu mainly to measure its blood-enriching effect, that is, the content of "iron", so it is no exaggeration to say that duck blood tofu is more nutritious than pig blood tofu.