The loach through the tofu, also known as loach drill tofu. It is a traditional folk flavor dish made of loach, tofu and other ingredients, home cooking. It has a strong local flavor and is simple and unadorned. There are production methods in many places, but the folk production in Zhoukou area of Henan Province is particularly famous. Due to the high nutritional and tonic effect, after a few improvements by the chef, but also become a famous dish on the feast. Burning method is to put the loach in a container, pour water and put a small amount of salt, feed overnight, and then pour the loach into the tender tofu pot heating, so that it drills, and add green onions, monosodium glutamate, ginger, and other condiments. This dish tofu white, flavorful with spicy, soup mushy aroma.
Chinese name
Loach drilling tofu
Flavor
Salty, spicy
Category
Home cooking
Main ingredients
Tofu, loach
English name
Loach drilling tofu
History of the dish
Legend has it that in the past, in his ancestral home in Zhoukou, there was a fisherman named Xing Wenming, who used to catch fish and shrimp for a living, and when he fished, he often caught some loaches, and often the larger loaches were sold, and the remaining small ones were left unattended, and each time, he had to bring them back to his home to cook them himself. Once, he tasted for spice and turn the pattern, simply put the small loach at home in a water basin to spit out the mud, and from the street to buy back some tofu and onions, ginger and other seasoning, should be small loach is not easy to pick up, they put the fish in the pot with the lid on the pot, with ginger and garlic with tofu and cook. To be cooked and uncovered to see, found that the small loach are drilled into the tofu to go, just the tail left outside, very chic and interesting. This method will soon be spread in the local folk, that is, the name of the "loach drill tofu".
Required Ingredients
Half a catty of loach, water on the 2-3 days (remember to change the water 2 times a day), so that the loach empty stomach. The loach choose long and thin for good (index finger length), the kind of fat artificial breeding can not be.
Fresh water tofu one catty. The whole piece of soaked in cold water standby.
Cooked oil, ginger, garlic, scallions, pepper, chili pepper in moderation.
Methods
1, cold pot, cold water, cold tofu (10-15 centimeters of tender tofu from which a knife cut into a cross, do not cut off) on the stove, and then live loach into the pot.
2, hit the fire (with the smallest fire), let the water slowly hot, and tender tofu is cool, the loach will be drilled into the tofu, to be drilled into the loach inside the tofu or be scalded to death, put cooked oil, ginger, garlic (like hot pepper into the chili), salt.
3, open the fire stew to 10 minutes or so can be out of the pot, pot (put onion, dripping a little sesame oil, like can be withdrawn a little pepper). In this way, a flavorful loach drill tofu is done.
Warm tips
1, the loach did not drill into the tofu even if the failure, the failure of the original should be two main: one is the fire is big, the loach has not drilled into the tofu was scalded to death;
2, the tofu is not tender enough, the loach can not drill into. Only made out of water tofu (note: not soybean flower) is too hot not, soaked in cool water for a long time and easy to harden, it is not easy to grasp.
3, cut the tofu must be cut around the hard skin of the tofu.
Eating notes
The loach and tofu are very high nutritional value, according to nutritionist analysis, loach contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus and vitamins and other ingredients, are more than the general content of fish, and its meat is tender and fresh, sweet taste and flatness, with warmth and beneficial gas, detoxification hemorrhoidal effect, known as the "water ginseng! "Tofu is the best food in the food. Therefore, loach and tofu cooking, more complementary and therapeutic functions.