Friday, December 08, 2006
posted by pablopabla at 10:40 am

Tofu with Minced Pork


This is a healthy dish to eat and fairly simple to cook. The ingredients are kept to a minimum for simple cooking and it is delicious eaten with plain white rice or porridge. As I have mentioned before, tofu (beancurd) comes in many textures and for this recipe, I use the firm white tofu which comes in a size of 6cm x 6cm x 2 cm (W x L x H) blocks.

You can whip up this dish in 30 minutes wherein the majority of the time spent is actually towards marinating the minced pork. You can substitute the pork with chicken. I have not tried minced beef or minced lamb though. If you wish to spice up the dish a bit, you can add a little (perhaps 1 teaspoon) of chilli oil when you start frying the minced pork for that added kick.

This is my recipe for Tofu with Minced Pork


Ingredients
  • 3 pieces firm tofu (quartered)
  • 100 to 150 grammes of minced pork
  • 3 cloves garlic (chopped)
  • Spring onions (cut to 6cm lengths or thereabouts for garnishing)
  • 2 tablespoons of cooking oil (palm oil preferred)
  • 50 ml water or more
  • Cornstarch (mix 1 tablespoon corn flour with 4 tablespoons water)

Marinade for minced pork
  • 2 teaspoons light soya sauce
  • a couple of dashes of white pepper powder
  • 1 teaspoon of corn flour

Seasoning
  • 1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce
  • 1/2 tablespoon dark soya sauce
  • salt to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon of white pepper powder

Method

Marinade minced pork for about 30 minutes.

Heat oil in wok and stir-fry garlic till beginning to brown. Add minced pork and stir-fry till cooked. Add tofu, water and seasoning and lightly stir to mix well. Close lid and let it cook for another 2 minutes (add more water if gravy drying out).

Before serving, and sprinkle spring onions evenly and add cornstarch bit by bit if gravy too runny for your liking.

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4 Comments:


At 12:23 pm, Anonymous Anonymous

Thanks for your visit and comment..

Wishing you a wonderful week-end.

 

At 11:11 pm, Anonymous Anonymous

I just made this recently too! But have not posted it on my blog yet.

Very similar to your recipe, just that mine is the 'dry version' with no gravy. Your gravy look good with plain white rice! Yummy!

 

At 2:20 pm, Anonymous Anonymous

eh another way of simple tofu dish is get those plastic packet, square tofu, the ones which are very very soft from the supermarkets ...

some garlic, onions, a little oyster sauce, soya sauce, and sesamm oil

fry all the ingredients, add in oyster sauce and soya sauce, fry till fragrant ...

steam tofu, take it out, straint he water, top with the stuff u fried earlier ... bloody yummy ...

 

At 8:49 am, Blogger pablopabla

peety : Glad you came by!

simcooks : This is actually a simple dish which many people cook at home. Hope to see your variant soon!

earl_ku : Your recipe is quite similar to my Simple Tofu with Dried Prawns recipe!