Thursday, March 9, 2017

Steamed silken tofu with minced meat sauce

One of my usual dishes is steamed minced meat on egg tofu. Yesterday I tried to steam silken tofu instead of egg tofu and make a minced meat sauce to go with it. My son loves it a lot. I guess for children, you can never go wrong with minced meat and tofu. :) For below recipe, you need to do steaming and stir fry separately. If you prefer just stir fry alone, you can try this minced meat tofu with sauce.

Ingredients
Minced meat (approx 100~120g)
1 box of silken tofu
1 stalk of spring onion
1 clove garlic
Cornstarch solution 

Marinate
sesame oil
white pepper
soy sauce 

Sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp soy sauce
water (approx 1 small bowl) 
sugar

Recipe
1. Marinate the minced meat with the seasonings stated in marinate. Minced the garlic and set aside. Cut the spring onion and separate the white part from the green part. Chop the white parts finely and set aside. Chop the green parts finely and set aside for garnish later.
2. Cut the silken tofu and put it on a deep steaming plate. Steam it for 5 minutes then set aside. (I am using electrical steamer so I will go on to prepare the sauce at the stove)
3. Prepare the seasonings stated in sauce in a bowl except sugar.
4. Heat up oil in the wok and stir fry the minced garlic till fragrant. Add in the chopped white parts of spring onions. Let it cook for a while then add the minced meat. (Note: Do not need to keep stirring the meat with the spatula at this point. Allow some time for the meat to cook through and it will break easily when you stir then)
5. Add in the sauce and let it boil before turning to low fire. Adjust the taste with sugar. You can add a dash of white pepper if you like. Thicken the sauce with cornstarch solution.
6. Pour the meat sauce over the silken tofu and garnish with the chopped green spring onions. (Reason for using deep steaming plate is because I don't want to transfer the silken tofu to another plate for fear of breaking it.)

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