Name: Pearl Tofu Box
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1000g North Tofu; Some Heinz Ketchup; 100g Pork stuffing; 6 pieces quail eggs; 50g Water-fat sea rice; 100g Water hair fungus; 1000g (150g) Vegetable oil; 1 small bowl Broth; Some shallot; Some ginger; Some garlic; Some Sugar; Some Water starch; Some sesame oil; Some MSG; Some Soy sauce; Some salt; 1 short section Cucumber; 1 piece tomato; Some Garlic sprouts

Pearl Tofu Box

by Zhu Xiaobai loves food

4.7 (1)

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The most interesting character on the New Year's table is the tofu box, because it is an indispensable flavored tofu dish for Shandong Boshan people to entertain relatives and friends. Boshan Tofu Box has unique craftsmanship, delicious and refreshing, soft and delicate fragrance, it is a favorite delicacy.
Boshan Tofu Box is a famous dish of Shandong cuisine. It is also one of the four famous dishes of Boshan (tofu box, clear boiled meatballs, fish belly sea cucumber soup, crispy fish pot). Many people in my hometown can't tell who is the inventor of the tofu box, but everyone knows that it was the Qing Dynasty emperor Sun Tingquan and Sun Ge that made it famous all over the world. It is said that Qianlong visited the south, passing Boshan, and came to visit the former residence of Emperor Kangxi’s teacher Sun Gelao. At that time, Boshan had already become a hometown of colored glaze and coal with civilizations far and near, and an important town with prosperous commerce and developed economy. Qianlong led his entourage to Xiye Street in Boshan, and was attracted by the sight of "pearl agate, green glass and amber light" along the street. The Liuli craftsmen saw a group of outsiders, but they didn’t know it was the holy driver. They stepped forward to play, and Longyan was unhappy, and asked: "What street is this?" Fortunately, they followed cleverly and said, "Naolong Street." Qianlong heard this. Feel funny, smile without saying a word. Entered the Xiangguo Mansion and hosted a banquet to meet the dust. After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, and a tofu box. After all, the emperor is the emperor, the world’s dishes should be tasted and know everything. However, this dish made him amazed, just as if the candidate for the No. 1 candidate encountered a top grade examination paper, he was happy and full of praise. "Naolong Street" has long been thrown out of the sky. Since then, the Boshan tofu box followed the Emperor Qianlong into the capital and the imperial palace. Since then, this dish is worth a hundred times, and guests who come from afar to Boshan must order the local tofu dish to taste. If you don't eat the tofu box in Boshan, you will not taste the authentic Boshan flavor.
Nowadays, even though the Boshan Tofu Box has long been honored as a state banquet in the Great Hall of the People, it is still a dish for ordinary people in my hometown. Every family cooks it in all the pubs and restaurants in the streets. However, it is not just a dish, but a feeling, a state of mind.
Every time I taste it, there are always various tastes that linger in my heart, no matter whether it is affection or thinking, it is lingering. No matter how far you go, there is a tofu box around you, and there is a fusion of nostalgia. "

Pearl Tofu Box

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3. Cut the tofu into a rectangle 6 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, and 3 cm high.

4. Put vegetable oil in the pot and heat it to 6-7 percent. Add the sliced tofu cubes and fry until golden brown (turn it constantly to avoid sticking the pot)

5. Remove the oil control for later use.

6. Cut the large noodles of the oil-controlled tofu block vertically without cutting it off.

7. Use homemade tools to pull out the tofu sacs and serve as a box.

8. Cut out the tofu sac, chopped up and set aside.

9. Mince 4/5 each of water-fat sea rice and water-fat fungus, mince garlic sprouts, green onions, and ginger.

10. Heat oil in a pot to 60% heat, add green onions and ginger and sauté until fragrant.

11. Add the meat and stir fry until 8 mature.

12. Add the chopped tofu and stir-fry until golden brown and put it in the container.

13. Put the chopped sea rice, fungus, and garlic seedlings into the fried filling.

14. Then add soy sauce, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, and salt to mix well and serve as tofu box stuffing.

15. Fill the tofu box with the stuffing and put it on the plate for later use.

16. The remaining 1/5 of the sea rice and fungus are torn into small flowers for later use. Cucumbers are cut into diamond-shaped slices, tomatoes are cut into arbitrary triangles, garlic slices, and quail eggs are cooked and peeled.

17. Heat oil in a pot, add garlic slices and sauté.

18. Put in the broth and bring to the boil.

19. Add diced tomatoes, water-fat sea rice, fungus, cucumber slices, quail eggs, a little soy sauce, salt, and stir-fry.

20. Add sugar, cooking wine, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate to remove fishy and freshness, add tomato paste and water starch to thicken.

21. Put the stuffed tofu box on the plate and steam for 5-6 minutes.

22. Pour the fried sauce on the top of the tofu box.

Tips:
Tofu has a cool and sweet taste, and is returned to the spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridian. It 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 the reputation of plant meat. Tofu contains sterol and stigmasterol, both of which are effective ingredients for inhibiting cancer. Tofu has the effects of high protein, low fat, lowering blood pressure and lowering cholesterol. It is a good delicacy for both raw and cooked, suitable for both young and old, health preservation, longevity and longevity.

Pork tastes sweet and salty, and has a flat nature. It enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridian; it has the effects of nourishing the kidneys and blood, nourishing yin, moisturizing dryness and invigorating the spleen and stomach;

Sea rice is rich in nutrition and contains several to several tens of times the protein content of fish, eggs, and milk. Seaweed is rich in magnesium. Magnesium plays an important role in regulating heart activity and protects the cardiovascular system. It can reduce the cholesterol content in the blood, prevent arteriosclerosis, and at the same time expand the coronary arteries, which is beneficial to prevent hypertension. Blood pressure and myocardial infarction.