Today I would like to share with you a common home-cooked practice in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai - shepherd's cabbage tofu soup;
The fragrance of wild vegetables and the tenderness of the inner fat tofu are combined into a fresh, refreshing, greasy home-cooked dish, nutritious, inexpensive, but it makes people have an endless aftertaste, like friends can try it!
【Raw materials】Sheedama, tender tofu, edible oil, salt, corn starch, sesame oil;
【How to make the shepherd's cabbage tofu soup】
1. There are not a lot of shepherd's cabbage used in shepherd's cabbage tofu soup, but you can buy more shepherd's cabbage at one time, because no matter what shepherd's cabbage is cooking, the previous operation method is the same;
2. The treatment of shepherd's cabbage is the key, whether it is from the field or the market to buy back the shepherd's cabbage, you must carefully select, remove the yellow leaves and old leaves, and then put it in a pot to clean, the root of the shepherd's cabbage is close to the ground, clean it carefully, and wash it several times, in order to completely clean the soil on the root system;
3. After cleaning, the shepherd's cabbage should be blanched first, the water in the pot should be boiled, salt and cooking oil should be added, and the color of the shepherd's cabbage after blanching salt and edible oil is also emerald green.
4. After the shepherd's cabbage is put out of the pot in cold water, in order to cool down quickly, you can put it in the pool and rinse it with clean water again, which can cool down more quickly and avoid yellowing.
5. The main raw material for making shepherd's cabbage tofu soup is a tender tofu and shepherd's cabbage that is squeezed out of water after blanching, and the amount of shepherd's cabbage is not particularly large;
6. Chop the shepherd's cabbage, cut the tofu into cubes, an egg white, and then prepare some starch water, the starch used for thickening is generally corn starch or sweet potato starch, and the sweet potato starch will be thicker, choose according to your preference;
7. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add diced tofu, and bring to a boil over high heat.
8. After the diced tofu is cooked, add a spoonful of salt to taste, then pour in starch water, stir while pouring, stir to your favorite thickness, add the chopped shepherd's cabbage, boil over high heat, pay attention to stirring during the period, and avoid pasting the pot;
9. Finally, pour in an egg white, gently push it, wait for the egg white to solidify, turn off the heat, pour in an appropriate amount of sesame oil, and the tender and delicious shepherd's cabbage tofu soup is completed;
10. The biggest feature of this dish is that it is light and nutritious, but not greasy;
Summary of the practice of shepherd's cabbage tofu soup:
1. If you want to match meat and vegetables in the cabbage tofu soup, you can add some minced meat, pork or beef;
2. If there is soup in the soup base, you can use broth, chicken soup or pork bone broth;