Materials
Main ingredients: 1 block of tofu, 100g of pork, 30g of shallots, 5 mushrooms, 1 egg;
Supplementary ingredients: 1 tablespoon of oil, 2 tsp of salt, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1/2 tbsp of oil consumption, 1 tbsp of cooking wine, 1/2 tsp of five-spice powder, 1/2 tsp of white pepper, 1/2 tsp of chicken powder, 3 tablespoons of cornstarch
Spiced fried tofu cake
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Ingredients:
Tofu (northern tofu, southern tofu is too tender, I bought fresh tofu from the market, non-boxed), 100g pork, scallions, five mushrooms, one egg (only the egg white part)
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Wash the scallions and chop them.
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Mince the pork. Many people find mincing meat a very painful task, so they prefer to go to the supermarket or grocery store to buy ready-made pork stuffing. But I have never dared to buy that kind of minced pork, I always feel that I don't know which part of the meat is from, and it's not clean, so I can't handle it well when I come back. Besides, the meat stuffing bought from the market does not hold together well and is not good for stuffing. So, if you want to enjoy the food, it's better to work hard. Of course, it's much easier with a meat grinder.
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Dried shiitake mushrooms are soaked, fished out and cleaned, squeezed dry, the stems removed, and then chopped.
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Put the pureed meat, scallions, and shiitake mushrooms in a bowl with seasoning.
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With chopsticks, mix the stuffing well, mixing vigorously until it clumps together. Marinate for fifteen minutes.
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While we're at it, let's take care of the tofu. Start by slicing off six sides of the tofu with a knife (because the sides will be dry and not tender enough).
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Lower your claws and crush the tofu!
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The crushed tofu particles are bigger, not fine enough, and too much water, it will be easy to stick to the pan when frying on the pan in a while, and the frying is not fragrant enough. So we need to squeeze the water out of the tofu crumbs.
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There are two ways, one is to use gauze (steamer cloth can be), wrapped around the tofu dregs, wring out the moisture. But I just ran out of steamer cloth at home, so I should have used a sieve for sifting flour, and squeezed a large spoon over it to get the moisture out of the tofu just as well, and to press the tofu into a fine puree.
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Crack the eggs, use an egg splitter to separate the whites and add them to the tofu puree (don't put in the yolks, they'll be too watery and you'll have just squeezed the water out for nothing ......) and then pour in two tablespoons of cornstarch, which will act as a binder to bind the pureed tofu. Don't forget to add a pinch of salt, otherwise the tofu puree will have no flavor yo
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The tofu puree will become very elastic when it is well blended, and we can start to make tofu cakes!
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Take a ball of tofu puree and put it in the palm of your hand
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Flatten it out, and put the meat filling on top of it
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Cover with a ball of tofu puree
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Flatten the tofu into a ball and then flatten it into a pancake, so that the filling is well received inside the tofu
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Gently add the tofu pancake into a skillet brushed with a thin layer of oil and heated over a low flame - be sure to do it gently or it will fall apart! be light or it will fall apart! Then press it gently with the palm of your hand - again, be sure to be light, it will crack if you push it too hard! Then fry over low heat while you make the next tofu patty. Don't try to cook them all on a plate and then fry them together, they are very fragile and when you try to pick them up from the plate it's very hard to get them out of shape. So make one and put it in the pan~
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Fry on low heat for about 3 minutes, then you can flip it over. The timing of flipping must be good, too early you will find that the side next to the skillet is not yet dry, it will stick to the pan, forcing the flip just now will be a foregone conclusion. So when is a good time to flip? Time is not absolute, you just use a wooden spatula to gently push the tofu cake, see if you can easily move, if you can, it means that side is dry, you can flip it~
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Look, is not it already turned light brown? Again fry the other side a little more. After that, turn it over about not more than 3 minutes, and it should take about 10-15 minutes for the tofu cake to turn golden brown, and it won't break apart when you press it with your fingers, it will be very flexible (doesn't it look like it's made of noodles?). It's cooked ~ remember to brush a layer of oil after each frying. But don't use too much oil, a very light layer will do.
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One piece of tofu, total **** fried out of ten tofu cakes, the meat filling is still too much, put in the refrigerator tomorrow to do something else to do
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This dish is characterized by the outside of the burnt and tender inside, let's cut one of the tofu cake to see, although the outside of the golden yellow, the outside of the tofu cake to see, the outside of the tofu cake to see. Although the outside is golden yellow and looks crispy, the inside still retains the tender white color of the tofu. It's very tasty!
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Tips
1. Be sure to squeeze the excess water out of the tofu.
2. You can use your hands to help when flipping to avoid the shape of the tofu cake being ruined.
3, flip time: just use a wooden spatula to gently push the tofu cake to see if it can be moved easily, if so, it means that side is dry and can be flipped.