Ingredients

1: 1 cup of soybeans, washed and soaked in water.

2: 8 cups of water.

3: 2 tsp cooked gypsum powder, 3 tbsp cornstarch, 1 cup cold boiled water and mix well.

Sauce:

4: 2 tbsp dried shrimp, soaked in water to soften, drained and minced.

5: 2 tbsp finely chopped green onion, 1 tbsp minced garlic cloves, 2 cilantro parsley, rinsed and chopped, 3 tbsp light soy sauce, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/8 tsp white pepper, 2 tbsp Jinlan soy sauce paste, 2 tbsp water, 1 tbsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp chili oil.

6: 1 tbsp canola oil.

Others:

7: 80g packet of sliced squash, chopped and set aside.

How to do it

Tofu Flower: Soak the soaked soybeans, rinse with water and drain. Take half of the soybeans, add 2 cups of water with a pulverizer, use gauze to remove the residue and leave the juice, the dregs of the soybean residue and add 2 cups of water and beat for 1 minute to remove the residue and leave the juice. Another portion of soybeans as above, put all the soy milk juice in a pot built into the stove, turn on the high heat and cook until boiling, reduce the heat and cook for 15 minutes remove from the heat and wait for use. Next, take a clean container, put in 3 ingredients and mix well, then pour the freshly boiled soy milk into it, cover and let it rest for 20-30 minutes.

Sauce: Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat. Stir in the chopped green onion and shrimp, then add all 5 ingredients, remove from heat and mix well.

Bean curd brain is a famous traditional Chinese snack, often mixed with bean curd flower, bean curd flower, according to the different tastes of different places, the north more salty food, while the south is preferred to sweet, but also in some areas such as Sichuan and other favorite spicy flavors.

Tofu brain and soybean flower are the intermediate product of making tofu, there is not much difference in composition. Tofu brain is the first out of the soft, tender, difficult to pick up with chopsticks, you need to use a spoon to serve; wait until the tofu brain and then solidified a little bit, is the soybean flower, compared with the texture of tofu brain coagulation smooth; soybean flower into the mold inside the compaction is even more solidified after the bean curd.

Tofu brain and tofu is the same family, but there are differences. Tofu is a solidified body, tofu brain is a semi-solidified flow of juice. Tofu brain production process: the first net soybean grinding into soybean paste, peeled and soaked in water for about 4 hours, to the soybean paste puffed up into white when fished out, poured into the grinder or stone mill grinding into fine soybean paste, fine soybean paste filtered with a cloth, will be taken over the dregs of the slurry poured into an iron pot with a strong fire after boiling, poured into a special bucket, and then cooked gypsum with water, into the tile jar, the bucket of soybean paste poured into the while hot, about 5 minutes! The first thing you need to do is to make the tofu brain.