Chongqing Food-red Tofu
1.
Cut the tofu into pieces of 4✕3✕2 cm with a side length. Use a dustpan or a breathable plastic frame to make a container. Cover the bottom with a sparse straw stalk and place the tofu with a space of about one or two centimeters. Cover the surface of the tofu with straw sparsely. Place in a dark and slightly ventilated place, and ferment naturally.
2.
Ferment for about half a month, take it out, uncover the straw stalk on the surface, take out the tofu, and wrap it.
3.
The tofu taken out is placed in white wine and rolled around to sterilize and collapse the white hair. Pour the prepared chili powder, pepper powder, and salt, and mix well.
4.
Wrap the tofu in a circle of white wine, put it in the seasoning, and use chopsticks to make the surroundings completely covered with the seasoning.
5.
Wrap the seasoned red tofu, put it in a ceramic pot, cover it, and let it ferment for another week.
6.
Take it out when used and eat it
Tips:
1. The flavor of the seasoning can be adjusted slightly according to your own taste.
2. The red tofu must be wrapped with wine before fermenting. The function is to sterilize, secondly to make the white hair soft and collapse, and thirdly, it is convenient to stick the seasoning during the coating.
3. The first step is to ferment tofu, which is ventilated, easy to grow hair, and hard. Less ventilation, less hair, easy to red, easy to soft. So you can adjust and choose the position of ventilation according to your favorite taste.
4. It is best to reduce the amount of ventilation, because the tofu is too hard and tastes bad. But don't basically have no ventilation or too soft, no matter when it is mixed or eaten, it will not be able to be clamped because it is too soft. (Mine is in my room, usually close the doors and windows)
5. The density of straw stalks will also affect the air permeability.
The seasoning can be fine-tuned according to your own taste.
6. Do not put the tofu too densely when fermenting, otherwise the white hairs will grow together after the white hair grows, and it is inconvenient to take out the tofu.
