There is a special brine for making stinky tofu, and the ingredients of the brine contain black tempeh and shiitake mushrooms, which make the brine black in color, and then the fermented tofu is put into it to make the tofu tinted with this black color, and the black stinky tofu made in this way is also healthy and nutritious.

Methods

1, making brine

The brine is made of black beans, soda ash, alum (classic Changsha stinky tofu no longer uses alum, but food additives), shiitake mushrooms, asparagus, and salt **** with cooking. First boil black tempeh, then cool it down and add mushrooms, asparagus, white wine and other condiments and soak it for about 15 days.

2, the production of tofu

Soybeans soaked in water, soaked, washed with water, into the water 20 ~ 25kg, grinding into a thin paste with a stone mill, and then add the same amount of warm water with the thin paste, mix well, and put into a cloth bag, and then force the pulp extrusion, and then in the dregs of soybean residue into the boiling water after mixing and then squeezed, so that continuous dregs of soybean residue does not stain, soybean pulp has been squeezed out of the time, skimming off the foam, the pulp into the pot with a big fire boiling, pour into the tank. When the soybean milk has been squeezed, skim off the foam, put the pulp into the pot with a large fire, pour it into the cylinder, add gypsum juice, add the side with a wooden stick and stir, stir about 15-20 turns, you can drop a little water, such as mixing with the pulp, that is, not enough gypsum juice, you must add some gypsum juice and then stir. If the water is not mixed with the pulp, it will become tofu brain after about 20 minutes. The tofu brain will be scooped into the wooden box, covered with a wooden board, pressed with a heavy stone, pressed to remove the water, that is, into the tofu.

3, soak the tofu

The alum into the barrel, pour boiling water with a stick to stir, put the tofu soak 2h or so, fish out the tofu cooling. Then put the tofu into the brine to soak, spring, fall about 3 ~ 5 h, summer about 2h soak, winter about 6 ~ 10 h, soak well after taking out, wash slightly with cold water, drain the water standby.