Ham Steamed Tofu

Name: Ham Steamed Tofu
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 box Tofu (lactone); 50g Jinhua ham; 2 pieces Shallots; 1 piece Chaotian Pepper; 2 teaspoons sesame oil; 3 cloves garlic; 2 tbsp Peanut oil

by Dark blue millet porridge

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

2

Jinhua ham is refined from the hind legs of two Jinhua black pigs. It has a bright yellow skin, a shape of bamboo leaves, a rosy flesh, a rich aroma, rich nutrition, and deliciousness. According to the "Supplements to Compendium of Materia Medica" compiled by Zhao Xuemin in the Qing Dynasty, Jinhua ham has functions such as kidney, stomach, body fluid, impotence, bone marrow strengthening, and foot strength. In daily life, patients regain their vitality, elderly people live longer, and women take care of their bodies after childbirth and eat some ham, which can promote appetite, increase taste, and get nourishment, improve health, and kill two birds with one stone.
For modern people, ham still has extremely high nutritional value.
Tofu, some people divide it into northern tofu and southern tofu, or old tofu and soft tofu. In northern restaurants, old tofu is often eaten, and it is the most common to use the "mix" method to make it. Beijingers call the tofu mixed with shallots "one clean and two white". Although these tofu have a "rough and old" taste, they have a strong bean flavor and a natural taste. Southern tofu is mostly tender and smooth, which is also a standard for making tofu. The flavor of tofu is light and it matches with many ingredients.
The quality of tofu is inseparable from the quality of water. The best tofu must use "pretty" water, and many tofu named after Shanshui tofu and spring water tofu are delicious if they are genuine. The recommended food menu this time is "Ham Steamed Tofu". Jinhua ham is used this time. Although the operation is simple, the selection of ingredients must be exquisite.

Ingredients

1 box Tofu (lactone)
50g Jinhua Ham
2 pieces Shallots
1 piece Chaotian Pepper
2 teaspoons Sesame Oil
3 cloves Garlic
2 tbsp Peanut Oil

Ham Steamed Tofu

1. Prepare ingredients: 50g Jinhua ham, 1 piece of soft tofu (about 350g), 2 teaspoons of sesame oil, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 Chaotian pepper, 2 shallots, and 2 tablespoons of peanut oil;

2. Cut Jinhua ham into thin slices;

3. Poke all four corners of the bottom of the tofu box to make it easier to pour the tofu out of the box;

4. Pour out the soft tofu completely and cut into pieces;

5. Stuff slices of ham between the tofu cubes;

6. Cut the Chaotian peppers and sprinkle them on the tofu, drizzle with sesame oil;

7. Chop garlic into minced garlic, chopped shallots;

8. Boil a water pot, add ham tofu, and steam for 20 minutes;

9. After the tofu is steamed, sprinkle with chopped green onion and minced garlic;

10. Take a large iron spoon, pour two tablespoons of cooking oil, heat the oil on a low heat;

11. When the oil is hot enough to emit white smoke, pour the hot oil on the tofu;

12. Listen to the sizzle of oil, start eating!

Tips:
Tofu is rich in nutrients, contains iron, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and other trace elements necessary for the human body. It also contains sugar, vegetable oil and rich high-quality protein. It is known as "plant meat". The digestion and absorption rate of tofu is more than 95%. Two small pieces of tofu can meet a person's daily calcium requirement.

Tofu is a food for replenishing heat and clearing away heat. Regular consumption can nourish the middle and nourish qi, clear away heat and moisturize dryness, promote body fluid and quench thirst, and clean the stomach. It is more suitable for people who have heat constitution, bad breath, thirst, unclear stomach, and those who are nursing after fever. Modern medicine has confirmed that in addition to the functions of increasing nutrition, helping digestion, and increasing appetite, tofu is also beneficial to the growth and development of teeth and bones. It can increase the iron content in the blood in the hematopoietic function; tofu does not contain cholesterol and is high blood pressure. , High blood lipids, high cholesterol, arteriosclerosis, and coronary heart disease. It is also a good food supplement for children, the sick and the elderly. Tofu is rich in phytoestrogens, which has a good effect on preventing and treating osteoporosis. It also has the function of inhibiting breast cancer, prostate cancer and blood cancer. The sterols and stigmasterol in tofu are all effective ingredients for suppressing cancer.