Chinese Vegetarian Recipes

White Gourd Cubes with Fermented Bean Curd

Winter Melon Cubes with Fermented Bean Curd

Introduction:

White gourd is also known as winter melon or ash gourd. Its meat is crystal, which I like it very much for. And when cooked, it tastes like the combination of soft and hard.

It can catalyze the starch and sugars in the human body in transmitting into calories other than fats. Thus, it fits well into the diets for those that are careful about their weight.

It is also popular among people that are paying much attention to their ever aging skins.

It is often cooked into soups which are the most popular type of dishes that white gourd is used for. But today I am introducing a stir-fry recipe for this anti-aging vegetable.

Ingredients:

White gourd: 400 g

Green vegetable leaves: 50 g (I used Shanghai Bok Choy, as you can see from the above photo.)

Seasonings:

Fermented Bean Curd: 1 curd

Master sauce (Use the liquid companying the fermented bean curd): 100 g

Cooking Wine: 15 g

White sugar: 8 g

MSG: 1 g

Salt: 2 g

Fennel, cassia cinnamon, sesame oil: 1/2 teaspoon

Peanut oil: 4 tablespoons

Preparation Work:

1. Remove the skin of the white gourd, rinse it with water, cut it into cubes with 7 cm long sides, and leave slant cuts on the surfaces of the cubes;

2. Mix the fermented bean curd and the master sauce fully;

Cooking Steps:

1. Pour 4 tablespoons of peanut oil into the wok and heat it until the oil is 60% hot;

2. Put the cubic white gourd into the wok, strain them out when they are half done;

3. Leave some oil over in the wok, arrange the white gourd cubes in it, spray the Fennel, cassia cinnamon, salt, white sugar, cooking wine and the mixture of fermented bean curd and master sauce onto them;

4. Turn to low heat when the wok is boiling;

5. Wait until the white gourd cubes are cooked through;

6. Pick the fennel and cassia cinnamon out from the wok;

7. Add in MSG;

8. Thicken the soup and arrange the finished dish onto a plate;

9. Stir fry the green leaves separately and decorate the edge of the plate with them;

10. The last step is to drop some sesame oil onto the dish.

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