Keqiao Spiced Dry Tea

Name: Keqiao Spiced Dry Tea
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 400g Dried Tofu; 20ML Rice wine; 25ML Mother and son soy sauce; 1 piece Homemade brine bag; 20g crystal sugar; 3g salt

by Qingming's sweetness and sweetness

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

1h

Serving

2

Shaoxing stinky tofu is a famous specialty of Shaoxing, and its little-known brother-Keqiao dried spiced tea, is also a major specialty of Shaoxing.
The dried tea of "Zhou Dehe" on the Changanmen outer triangle bridge that Zhou Zuoren talked about in "Eating Tea" is the predecessor of Keqiao tea dried. Keqiao tea is small and thin, about an inch square, only half thick, dark and tough, and the color is like red sandalwood. The taste is slightly salty, fragrant and sweet, chewing slowly, and a little bit of fresh juice.
The dried spiced tea ingredients are exquisite, with anise, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, kaempferol, rice wine, tangerine peel, licorice, rock sugar and other more than ten kinds of auxiliary materials refined, simmering, taste fresh, salty, sweet, fragrant, It is chewed in the mouth and has a long aftertaste. It is one of the must-have snacks for my son's spring outing tomorrow. "

Ingredients

Keqiao Spiced Dry Tea

1. Prepare ingredients

2. Pour about 1000ML of cold water into the pot

3. Put the marinade, rice wine, rock sugar, mother and son soy sauce, salt

4. Dried tofu, put it in a pot, boil on high heat for about 3 minutes

5. If you like spicy food, you can add chili. My family loves spicy food. I added a few dried red chilies and simmered on low heat.

6. Simmer for about an hour on low heat (the longer the cooking time, the more delicious it is)

7. Out of the pot and plate

Tips:
The ingredients of the marinated bag are star anise, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, kaempferol, tangerine peel, licorice, bay leaf, nutmeg. If you like spicy, you can add chili to simmer the longer the simmering time, the more delicious