Beancurd skin recipe - How to stir-fried with mushrooms (Seriously Asian)
Today’s lunch is seriously Asian- beancurd skin stir-fry with mushrooms and black fungus.
If you are unfamiliar with beancurd skin, it is a film of the skin that forms on the top of the soy milk, then removed and dried to become a thin yellowish sheet.
Beancurd skin has a meaty texture and is often used to substitute meat. I combine it with mushroom and black fungus, which are all classical ingredients for Chinese cuisine.
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Recipe:
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Ingredients
100g beancurd skin (dry weight)
1 egg, beaten
1 tbsp cornstarch
4 dried shitake mushrooms, medium size
4 cloves of garlic, cut into slices
2 stalk spring onions
10g black fungus (dry weight)
1 small carrot, cut into slices
1 medium-size tomato, cut into cubes
1 medium size green bell pepper, cut into wedges
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp oyster sauce (optional)
1/4 tsp ground white pepper
3 tbsp peanut oil (for frying)
Method:
Preparation
- Cut the beancurd skin into 2-inches sections.
- Place the tofu skin sticks in a large bowl of cold water and soak until soft. The endpoint is when they are soft and no longer feel difficult to bend.
- Blanch the beancurd skin boiling water for fifteen seconds, and remove immediately. Place them in cold water, and drain.
- Mix a beaten egg with the cornstarch to coat each beancurd skin evenly.
- Pan-fry the beancurd skins until both sides turn golden brown. Set aside.
- Soak the black fungus and dried shiitake mushrooms until soft. Cut the fungus into small pieces and mushrooms into thick slices.
- Cut green bell pepper into half-inch pieces.
- Slice a small carrot into slices diagonally.
- Cut a medium-sized tomato into small cubes.
- Cut the spring onion into two sections. The white part should be in thin slices for sauteing, and the green section for stir-frying in the last minute of cooking.
Cooking
- Saute the garlic slices in peanut oil for half a minute.
- Then add the white section of the spring onions and continue sauteing.
- Next, add the carrot, mushrooms, wood ear, and tomatoes.
- Add the bell pepper, then season with light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, salt, and white pepper.
- Return the fried beancurd sticks to the wok, add half a cup of water and continue cooking until the bean curd sheets become soft.
- Lastly, add the green section of the spring onion and a teaspoon of sesame oil before dish out.
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General Tso's Tofu Ingredients:
350g extra firm tofu
2 tsp soy sauce
2 tsp maple syrup
1 tsp toasted sesame oil
1 + 1/2 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cups water
2 1/2 cups avocado oil
Directions:
1. Pat dry the extra firm tofu with a paper towel. Then, break into medium bite sized pieces
2. Add the soy sauce, maple syrup, and toasted sesame oil to the tofu and toss to combine. Set aside and let it marinate for a few minutes
3. Set up a station of two plates, one for dry and one for wet. Add 1 cup of flour to the dry plate. Add 1/2 cup flour and 3/4 cups of water to the wet plate. Use a fork to dissolve the flour (you can add more flour or water to this recipe as needed)
4. Add half of the tofu to the dry plate and coat. Then, transfer the tofu to the wet plate and coat. Then, transfer back to the dry plate and coat again. Set the coated tofu pieces aside and repeat with the remaining tofu
5. Add the avocado oil to a frying pan and heat up on medium heat for a few minutes (stick a bamboo chopstick in the oil, if there's fast moving bubbles, it's ready)
6. Carefully place in half of the tofu pieces and fry for 4-6min. When they start to turn golden brown, carefully turn the tofu over. Fry the other side for 3-4min. Then, carefully transfer onto a cooling rack. Repeat with the remaining tofu
General Tso's Sauce Ingredients:
3 pieces garlic
small piece ginger
1 tbsp chili oil (
10 dried red chilies
1 1/2 tbsp maple syrup
1 tbsp plantbased oyster sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce sauce
1 tsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp black vinegar
1 tsp potato starch
2 tbsp water
2 tsp white sesame seeds
Directions:
1. Finely chop the garlic and ginger
2. Heat up a sauté pan to medium heat and add the chili oil, garlic, and ginger. Cook for a few minutes
3. Add the dried red chilies and sauté for a couple of minutes
4. Add the maple syrup, plantbased oyster sauce, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and black vinegar. Stir and cook the sauce for about a minute
5. Make a slurry by combining the potato starch with the water. Then, pour the slurry into the sauce while stirring. If the sauce looks too thick, stir in a little more water
6. Add the crispy tofu and stir around to coat
7. Plate the tofu and garnish with white sesame seeds
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