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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Eggplant Tofu

This is a vegetarian dish of mainly eggplant and tofu, tofu is also called beancurd, which is also available now in markets outside of China or Asia...

 Ingredients: 
                    
Eggplant, tofu
Green onion (or onion can be an alternative option), ginger, garlic, red pepper, leek (if you don't find it you can just skip)
Salt, sugar, cooking alcohol (if you don't find it, any kind of drinkable alcohol can do the work), soy sauce, farina, cooking oil, chili sauce

Process:

1. Cut the eggplant into round or rectangle pieces of 1cm thick, dip into fresh water and take them out...

2. Cut the tofu into triangle pieces of 1cm thick...

3. Cover the eggplant and tofu pieces with farina one by one...

4. Cut the green onion (onion), ginger, garlic and red pepper into fine pieces...

5. Cut the leek into small bar shapes of 3cm long...

6. Put the wok on fire, pour some cooking oil inside for deep frying... First fry the tofu pieces, when they become golden yellow take them out, let the extra oil drop away from the tofu...

7. Fry the eggplant pieces with same oil, when they become 70% ripe or become golden color, take them out, let the extra oil drop away from the eggplant...

8. Leave little bit oil in the wok for stir frying, when it becomes hot put the green onion, ginger and garlic inside then stir for a minute, put some chili sauce and stir till the oil becomes red, then pour some cooking alcohol, soy sauce and little bit fresh water and again stir fry for a minute or two...

9. Put some salt and sugar according to your own taste...

10. Put the red pepper, fried tofu and eggplant, and leek, turn the fire into maximum level and stir fry all, till all the mixed well and ripe... Now the dish is ready...

Tip:

Red pepper is just for decoration, no need to put a lot...

Enjoy your food!






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