Chinese Vegetarian Recipes

Stir-fried Cabbage with Smoked Tofu Slices

Stir-fried Cabbage with smoke dried tofu

Introduction:

This recipe is also new to me. I didn’t know cabbage could be stir-fried with smoked tofu. But after tasting it, I am totally amazed at how delicious they can be together.

This recipe is so simple that nothing is worth mentioning for special attention, except that soft smoked tofu should be selected. And I know that the tofu products including this kind of dried tofu might be seldom, which I don’t know because I am living in China. You can just keep an eye on it when you are shopping.

As you should know, what we are introducing here are all authentic Chinese recipes that Chinese people are cooking everyday. Nothing Americanized is included here. So it might be difficult to find some of the ingredients mentioned in these recipes.

Ingredients:

Cabbage: 300 g

Smoked tofu: 50 g

Seasonings:

Vegetable oil: 50 g

Salt: 4 g

Soy sauce: 5 g

White sugar: 2 g

MSG: 2 g

Scallion: 6 g

Ginger: 3 g

Preparation Work:

1. Rinse the cabbage clean, and cut it into square pieces with about 3 cm sides;

2. Slice the smoked tofu (around half a centimeter thick);

3. Cut the scallion and ginger into small pieces;

Cooking Steps:

1. Preheat the vegetable oil in the wok to 80% hot;

2. Flavor the wok with scallion and ginger pieces;

3. Add the smoked tofu slices into the wok and quickly stir by a few strokes;

4. Add in the soy sauce, white sugar, salt and the cabbage pieces, and stir-fry them until they are done;

5. Season it with MSG before dishing out.

Cooking Tips:

1. Don’t stir too much. Because the smoked bean curd pieces are relatively tender, they can become crumbs when stirred hard and fast.

2. During the cooking process, the bottom of the wok becomes dry because the tofu absorbs water and oil, and it is hard for the cabbage (which is hard) to give up moisture. Don’t hesitate to spray some water along the wall of the wok. This can be done by swinging a spoon with water skillfully. You will know what to do when you come to this. (I will upload some video later, so that you can have a more direct view of what all the stir-frying and other things are all about.)

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