Blooming
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1. Let's cook the broth first. The broth here is best clear broth. Add chicken skeleton, ham slices, and ginger slices to a proper amount of water and simmer, boil, add a little cooking wine and continue to simmer
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After boiling for half an hour, the soup turned white. After removing the chicken skeleton and ham slices, I added a spoonful of fresh pork puree. This was seen on TV. It was said that it could make the soup clearer, so I added another Some cooking wine, add some salt to taste after tasting
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I also added some cabbage to the soup, because the cabbage in winter is very delicious, sweet, I want to make the broth a little sweet
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After it's cooked, filter out the broth. My soup is still not clear enough, maybe the pork mash has been added. Anyway, prepare a pot of broth, it's best to be clear, mainly good-looking
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Prepare tofu, you must pay attention here, not to use lactone tofu is too tender, just use brine tofu
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For the chrysanthemum tofu silk knife purchased online, if you have good knife skills and are full of confidence in yourself, then omit it! This set of tools is more than 20 yuan, a certain treasure can be sold! There are a total of 3 parts. In order to describe the following steps, I will name them respectively: knife frame (upper left), knife net (upper right), knife cover (below)
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A whole piece of tofu can be made into four chrysanthemums. First use the knife frame of the tofu mold, and gently press 1/4 of the tofu to the bottom.
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Transfer the shredder mold and the cut tofu into a bowl
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Hold the knife frame placed in the bowl with your left hand, put the knife net on the tofu with your right hand, and press down evenly to draw out the silk. Don’t use too much force, otherwise the tofu silk will break easily.
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At this time, the outermost knife frame can be taken out to remove the excess tofu residue on the mold wall. This step is very important and requires the cooperation of both hands! Use the knife cover with your right hand to press down and push out the tofu until it stops. Take the knife cover out and put it down. With your left hand, lift the knife net up at the same time, then use your right hand to take the usual kitchen knife and cut the tofu along the bottom of the mold
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This is the finished shredded tofu, now it looks the same as usual tofu, right?
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Slowly pour clean water along the edge of the bowl to remove the excess tofu residue, filter 2 to 3 times until the water becomes clear, do not directly add water to the tofu shreds, otherwise the tofu shreds will break easily
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Remove the water, slowly pour the pre-prepared soup along the edge of the bowl, and slowly shake the bowl in your hand to spread the tofu shreds, like a blooming chrysanthemum.
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Put the chrysanthemum tofu in a steamer and steam for 5 or 6 minutes. Of course, you can also blanch the whole tofu in advance and then cut into shreds. Then you don’t need to steam it in the pot.
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You can decorate it with choy sum, and boil the choy sum in the excess broth to soften
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Take out the steamed chrysanthemum tofu, add green vegetables and goji berries to decorate, all movements should be gentle and slow
Tips:
The tofu used here must be brine tofu! The success rate of other tofu is very low. When filtering and pouring the soup, the action must be gentle, slow and gentle. The water should be poured slowly along the edge of the bowl. Do not pour directly on the tofu.
