Ma tofu is a specialty of Beijing, and a similar food is also available in Anyang, Henan Province, known as vermicelli tuozi. This food comes from the powder room in the old capital. The powder room was originally a place of production of starch, the beans on the stone mill a grinding, grinding with the addition of water, at the same time the beans are divided into three things. The top of the fine into a soybean paste, is genuine, used to make starch; top thin into a juice, that is, soybean juice; the middle layer of thick paste stagnant dark green pulp, put into a cloth bag heating a cooking, filtered water, is hemp tofu.

Old Beijing hemp tofu practice

Materials: sheep's tail oil, green beans, soybeans, potherb mustard, scallions, ginger, green onions, dried chili, salt, yellow sauce.

Practice:

1, green and yellow beans into the pot to cook and fish out and set aside.

2, green onion and ginger minced, potherb mustard soaked for 5 minutes to clutch the water, sheep tail oil cut into cubes, scallions cut scallions; dry chili pepper cut into small segments spare.

3, pot in the fire down into the sheep's tail oil on low heat to stir out the oil, take a small amount of fried chili oil; the remaining dregs fished out.

4, into the onion and ginger stir-fried flavor.

5, put a little yellow sauce stir-fried, pour green soybeans, potherb mustard stir fry for a moment.

6, into the hemp tofu, while adding a large amount of water, the water did not exceed the hemp tofu blistering boil over high heat.

7, after boiling to medium-low heat, while cooking with a spatula constantly stirring. (to prevent a ba pot paste bottom)

8, to be hemp tofu has a viscous and glutinous, flooded with a distinctive flavor, seasoned with a little salt.

9, sprinkled with chopped scallions stir-fry a few can turn off the fire.

10, hemp tofu into the plate, pouring the fried chili oil can be eaten.