Hakka's home-cooked practice of making tofu
Prepare ingredients
1 piece of tofu, 80g minced pork, 30g salted fish, 1 teaspoon minced ginger, 2 teaspoons of cooking wine, a proper amount of white pepper, a teaspoon of salt, 1 scallion.
Feed juice
1 tbsp oil consumption, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp corn starch, a little salt and white pepper.
Specific steps
1 Peel and chop salted fish, and mix well with minced pork and ginger. Add cooking wine, salt and pepper and mix well.
2 Cut the tofu into cubes and scoop out 1 teaspoon from each tofu to put the minced salted fish.
3 scoop a spoonful of minced salted fish in the middle of the tofu block, put it in the pot and steam for about ten minutes.
At the same time of steaming tofu, corn starch is thickened with water into slurry, and onion is cut into chopped green onion. After the tofu is steamed, take out the plate carefully.
5 fire pot, pour water, put oil consumption and soy sauce, add some salt and white pepper to taste, pour starch liquid, stir, turn off the heat when it is thick, pour it on tofu and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
Nutritional value of tofu
Tofu is extremely nutritious and contains iron, magnesium, potassium, nicotinic acid, copper, calcium, zinc, phosphorus, folic acid, vitamin B 1, egg yolk and vitamin B6. Every100g of solid tofu contains 69.8% water, including protein15.7g, fat 8.6g, carbohydrate 4.3g and fiber 0. 1 g, which can provide 61kloc-0/.2 kilojoules of heat. The high content of amino acids and protein in tofu makes it a good supplementary food for cereals. Tofu fat is 78% unsaturated fatty acid and contains no cholesterol, so it is known as "vegetable meat". The digestion and absorption rate of tofu is over 95%. Two small pieces of tofu can meet a person's daily calcium requirement.
Tofu is a tonic, heat-clearing and health-preserving food. If eaten regularly, it can tonify the middle energizer, clear away heat and moisten dryness, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and clean the stomach. It is more suitable for people with heat constitution, bad breath, thirst, indigestion and fever. Modern medicine has proved that tofu not only has the functions of increasing nutrition, helping digestion and stimulating appetite, but also is beneficial to the growth and development of teeth and bones (there is also the calcium king in fruit-sour horn), which can increase the content of iron in blood in hematopoietic function; Tofu contains no cholesterol, and it is a delicacy for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. It is also a good food therapy for children, the sick and the elderly to supplement nutrition. Tofu is rich in phytoestrogens and has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. It also has the function of inhibiting breast cancer, prostate cancer and hematologic cancer's disease. Sterol and stigmasterol in tofu are all effective components for inhibiting cancer.
How to choose tofu
1. Eye observation method
South tofu, commonly known as water tofu, is of high quality without water lines and impurities. Those with water lines, bubbles, fine particles and yellowish color are inferior tofu. [5] North tofu is commonly known as old tofu, and the protein content is higher than that of water tofu (a catty of soybeans can make more than two catties of old tofu, which can make about four catties of water tofu). There are bubbles in the old tofu, and the bubbles flow out because the water in the old tofu is separated from protein, which is why a catty of old tofu in the supermarket costs 2 yuan, because there is no water (if there are no bubbles, you have to be careful that the boss adds food additives, I am not denying additives, but we try to be as little as possible). The old Liu tofu of Sichuan Shehong Tianxian is famous far and near. Authentic brine tofu, 30 years of quality, absolutely does not contain any other additives (except brine), we should try to eat natural food, and eat tofu on the same day.
2. Identification method of sewing needle Hold 1 sewing needle, let go at a height of 30 cm from the tofu, and let the needle fall freely. The needle can be inserted into the tofu for high-quality tofu. Old tofu may not fit in.
3. Use a knife to cut it, but it should not be too old, bright in color, good in taste and odorless.
4. Gypsum tofu, some will feel like sand when eaten, because gypsum is not too broken and is not good for eating.