Home-cooked practice of eight-treasure tofu

The method of homemade eight-treasure tofu;

Ingredients: one piece of old tofu, one bamboo shoot, half a carrot, one handful of green beans, two or three mushrooms, two mushrooms, a little peanut, a little fungus, two slices of ginger, 2 tablespoons of salt 1/2, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, 2 pieces of rock sugar and a little white pepper.

1, the old tofu is cut into 4 cm square pieces with a thickness of 0.5 cm (probably enough). If there is a lot of water, it's best to suck it up with a kitchen paper towel. Heat a non-stick pan, add more oil, fry tofu on low heat until one side is golden, then turn over and fry the other side, and set aside.

2. Bamboo shoots are shelled and diced, carrots are sliced, mushrooms are diced, and quick-frozen green beans are thawed. Heat auricularia auricula in a pot with a little oil, stir-fry ginger, stir-fry peanuts and carrots, stir-fry mushrooms, mushrooms and bamboo shoots until they are 90% mature, and stir-fry fried tofu and thawed green beans.

3. Add a bowl of water to the pot, add salt, soy sauce, rock sugar and white pepper to taste, and continue to heat on low fire, so that the tofu can absorb the soup and then collect the juice from the pot.

The origin of Bazhen tofu

Bazhen Tofu is a famous dish in Tianjin, China, which belongs to Tianjin cuisine. That box of tofu melts in the mouth and tastes delicious. Everyone in Tianjin has his own dish of eight-treasure tofu in his heart.

First, cut the tofu into pieces and fry it into crispy tofu, then stew the eight raw materials together with the fried tofu in a pot. There are different opinions about "eight treasures", and famous chefs choose high-grade raw materials such as abalone, sea cucumber and scallop.

However, due to the great differences in people's eating habits in different regions, raw materials are also limited by various regions. Basically, as long as the ingredients that family members love to eat can be made into "eight treasures", and local materials can be made into "eight treasures" with their own characteristics.