Stuffed Bean Curd - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    8 pieces square bean curd (The one with a hard outer skin)
    oil
    200 g finely minced pork
    1/2 cup canned shiitake mushrooms or 1/2 cup canned dried Chinese mushrooms, diced
    1/2 tablespoon cooking wine or 1/2 tablespoon sherry wine
    1 1/2 tablespoons water
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
    1 dash white pepper
    1 tablespoon sweet onion, chopped
    1 tablespoon cornflour
    1/2 cup sweet onion, sliced
    1 1/2 cups stock
    3 tablespoons soy sauce
    1 teaspoon msg or 1 teaspoon sugar
    1/2 tablespoon cornflour
    1 1/2 tablespoons water, mix with corn flour
    coriander leaves, chopped
Preparation
    For the filling -------------------.
    Add 1 to the minced pork and mix until completely blended and smooth.
    Add in the mushrooms, sweet onions and corn flour and mix well.
    For the beancurds --------------.
    Pat beancurd dry.
    Heat oil in pan.
    Place in the beancurds for deep-frying.
    Remove and drain when skin turns golden.
    Allow beancurd to cool slightly.
    Laterally cut the beancurd to make a slit on the side about more than half its length.
    (Do not slice through) Scoop out the beancurd to form a pocket and fill it with the meat filling.
    Heat 1 tbsp oil in a big saucepan.
    Stir-fry the sweet onion slices until fragrant.
    Add 2 and the beancurds.
    Cover the saucepan and cook over low heat until liquid is reduced to 3/4 cup (about 5-6 mins).
    Add mixture 3 to thicken the gravy.
    Stir well.
    Add the corriander leaves.
    Stir for a while then remove to serve.

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