Materials: 5 pounds of tofu, salt, pepper / five-spice powder, soy sauce 200ml.

Practice:

1, buy a large block of tofu, 5 pounds or so.

2, cut into 2 to 3cm thick, cut 6 pieces, the thickness should be the same, the thickness can be cut according to personal preference.

3, gas steaming for 13 minutes: after steaming, start pressing the tofu, a large plate to put the bottom, spread the gauze, tofu a piece of a piece of flat, and then wrapped with the gauze below, and then put a large plate on top.

4, looking for heavier people to stand up and press for a while, and finally put the weight on the board more heavy things, such as a large bucket of pure water, pressure three to four hours.

5, with salt and pepper/five-spice powder with a small dish, according to their usual meal taste with.

6, pressed tofu cut into blocks, each piece of tofu on the top layer sprinkled with seasoning code, marinate for a while.

7, like to eat salt heavy put more, but not too much. Because a little while to cook with soy sauce. Marinated soy sauce poured into the pot, the general amount of glass bottle 3 parts of a bottle. Boil after the tofu piece by piece to put inside to cook, according to the size of the pot, one by one to put, do not put all at once inside, 3 minutes or so the color becomes heavy to fish out. If the soy sauce becomes less, you can add a little water.

8, cooked. Put rice vinegar and put green onions to eat cold or fried vegetables to eat.

Dried tofu has varieties such as dried white, dried scented, dried vegetables, dried soy sauce, dried smoked and fermented dried moldy tofu. Usually on the basis of water tofu and then remove the water concentration of the product, in which the protein, calcium and magnesium concentration have been greatly improved.

Soybeans themselves contain a lot of phytic acid and a small amount of oxalic acid, both of which can block calcium absorption. As it is ground into soymilk, the phytic acid and oxalic acid dissolve in the water, and squeezing out some of the water when making tofu decreases the amount of these anti-nutrients. Dried tofu is made on the basis of dried tofu and then repeatedly squeezed out of the water, at which point the phytic acid has been mostly lost with the water and the calcium can be better utilized.

People's Daily News. Dried beans are the "king of calcium"