Double Cooked Tofu Recipe

Introduction:

Double cooked dishes are very characterized in Sichuan food. The most popular one is “Double Cooked Pork” which you might have heard of.

I had no idea that the double cooking method could be used in the vegetarian cooking at all before I came across this recipe below, although I had eaten similar dishes in the restaurant.

Ingredients:

Tofu: 200 g

Green chili peppers: 50 g

Seasonings:

Vegetable oil: 20 g

Scallion pieces: 10 g (coarsely chopped);

Ginger slices: 5 g

Garlic slices: 5 g

Salt: 4 g

MSG: 2 g

Dou Ban Jiang: 15 g

Sesame oil: 2 g

Soy sauce: 10 g

Cooking wine: 7 g

White sugar: 8 g

Preparation Work:

1. Cut the tofu into rectangular pieces (around 1 cm thick);

2. Slide the tofu pieces into preheated oil, and strain them out when they turn to golden in color;

3. Wash the green chili peppers clean, remove the stems and seeds from them, and cut them into pieces;

Cooking Tips:

1. Pour the vegetable oil into the wok, and preheat it;

2. Add in the scallion pieces, ginger slices and dou ban jiang and stir fry them until the wok becomes fragrant;

3. Add the cooking wine, white sugar and soy sauce in;

4. Pour the fried tofu back into the wok;

5. Add the green chili pepper in;

6. Stir fry evenly;

7. Stir the salt, MSG and sesame oil into it before dishing out.

Cooking Tips:

To be honest, I have tried this recipe by myself twice. At the first time, I fail in properly fry the tofu pieces which didn’t remain intact.

Therefore, I substituted the first frying step with prepared one that I bought in the market. Maybe later on, I can come up with the trick that I can share with you.

However, I still have a tip to share with my readers, i.e. don’t use tofu that is too tender.

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