First look at the preparation of ingredients: sea shrimp or shrimp base tail after washing, the shrimp head and body segments separated, peeled out of the shrimp, remove the shrimp line and cut into a length of about 1CM block shape

Step 2?

Old tofu cut into thick slices or cubes

Step 3

Cabbage stalks sliced and standby

Step 3

Cabbage stalks sliced and standby

Step 3

Only the first step is to boil a pot enough to be hot, turn on low heat and pour some oil into the pot to fry. p>Step 4

The first step is to boil the pot until hot enough, turn the heat down and pour the oil, first put the shrimp head into the pot to sauté some shrimp oil

Step 5

When the shrimp head sautéed out of the golden brown, the shrimp oil smells rich pungent shrimp oil when the shrimp head out of the pot to stay in the bottom of the oil,

Step 6

Then the shrimp into the pot to sauté until the shrimp oil becomes white, turn off the heat,

Step 7

Put the shrimp oil and shrimp into two separate bowls and set aside

Step 8

Re-wash the pot or start another pot, heat it up and pour the shrimp oil into it, add the ginger and garlic and saute it over low heat to bring out the flavor (if you want to be lazy, you can leave the shrimp oil out in the previous step and saute the ginger and garlic directly)

Step 9

Stem of cabbage is added into the pot. Stir-fry the water

Step 10

Add boiling water to the pot and turn on high heat to simmer, when the water boils the old tofu into the pot, then add some salt, soy sauce and sugar to taste

Step 11

The tofu boils and keeps on simmering

Step 12

Waiting until the soup is only a third of the way, then add shrimp to the stew together.

Step 13

When the soup is almost dry, drizzle a few drops of sesame oil, sprinkle green onion and turn off the heat to start the pot

Old tofu braised shrimp finished picture

Cooking Tips

A New Year's Eve dinner of homemade food for the young and the old alike is ready. The kids will love the shrimp, you know! Waiting to receive praise when it's done!