This dish was learned from a food show, and it was very creative, but it was also difficult and labor-intensive.
It is indeed rare to use tofu to make dumplings, and many people may not have eaten them. I've always wanted to try it since I watched this show, so today I bought two boxes of tofu, and it's also the most tender lactone tofu, and I'm ready to try it.
After tossing for a long time, I made a few, but fortunately, the ingredients were fully prepared, enough for me to be bad. The whole production process must be carefully and carefully, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will break the tofu and redo it, which is a bit sadistic. However, the tofu dumplings are very smooth and tender in the mouth, and the dough melts in the mouth, which is delicious and very good!
To prepare the tofu dumplings:
Ingredients: 1 box of lactone tofu, 50g minced pork, 4 shrimps, 6 cabbage hearts, oil, salt, 1 chives, 3g ginger, 2g cooking wine, 10g corn starch, 1g white pepper
Steps:
1. Prepare the required ingredients
2. After the shrimp is shelled, open the back and take out the shrimp line
3. Mix the processed shrimp with a little salt, cooking wine and white pepper and marinate them for later use
4. Make dumpling stuffing again: the meat filling is not delicate enough and needs to be chopped again, chopped into a meat puree is very delicate, and then add salt, minced ginger, chopped green onions, white pepper, 3g corn starch, stir in one direction, and add an appropriate amount of water in a small amount many times, stir the meat puree to make it sticky
5. At the bottom of the lactone tofu box, cut off a small opening at the four corners and blow into it to help complete the demoulding
6. Then tear off the parafilm on it, buckle it upside down on the board, and then trim it into a square with a knife
7. Remove the upper layer first, and then cut out the thin slices horizontally with a knife (the knife must be sharp and the action should be slow)
8. Prepare a piece of gauze in advance, and gently push the cut tofu slices on the gauze
9. Then put the meat filling on the tofu slices (note that the meat filling can not be put too much), lift a corner of the gauze, and fold it diagonally to cover the meat filling
10. Gently press both sides with your fingers through the gauze to make it sticky and firm
11. Remove the gauze and wrap a triangular tofu dumpling
12. Put the finished dumplings into a plate in turn, sprinkle a little salt evenly on top of the dumplings, and then put them in a pot and steam them for 3 to 5 minutes
13. Pour a little oil into the pot and stir the green onion and ginger slices to bring out the fragrance
14. Pour in boiling water, cover and cook for 5 minutes, then remove the green onion and ginger slices
15. Adjust the water starch in advance (pour an appropriate amount of water into 7g of corn starch and stir evenly), slowly pour the water starch into the soup, and stir constantly with a spoon or chopsticks
16. After hooking in the thin thickener, add the green cabbage heart, and cook for a while after boiling
17. Add the marinated shrimp, then add half a spoon of salt (according to personal taste), turn off the heat after the shrimp are cooked, and add a little chicken essence to taste
18. Finally, put the steamed tofu dumplings into the soup
Tips:
1. The whole process of making tofu dumplings must be light and slow and patient, because lactone tofu is too tender and will break if you don't pay attention to it
2. Actually, I prepared 2 boxes of tofu, because it was the first time to make it, one was afraid that the tofu would be incomplete, and the other was afraid that there would be mistakes in the production process
3. Thicken in the soup so that the ingredients are not easy to sink to the bottom and look better
4. Don't waste the remaining tofu, you can fry a minced tofu, or make a tofu soup the next day; The leftover minced meat can also be made into a meatball soup