AAAAnd the cooking adventure continues. Ever since I started cooking at home, I’ve try to not just cook stir-fries, but instead have a variety of stir-fry, steamed, baked, and grilled food. Up till then, I’ve actually not steamed anything before (ok except for cakes, and …. egg, and bread and rice) No joke, cause I always think that steamed food are too healthy and maybe a bit tasteless. Ok so to prove myself wrong, I used the steamer. My mum bought an electric steamer cause she said we cannot eat so much deep fried / stir fried food, which indirectly means, we should not take food with too much oil!! *jeng jeng jeng* Well I mean it’s true, even though I like to indulge in deep fried oily food, we should still have a balanced everyday diet and keep these oily food far far away. But aiyo, cravings are too hard to resist!!! Balance is the word….
Hence, I’ve started making lotsa steamed food. But also because it’s SO EASY and CLEAN. All you have to do is chop everything, put in the bowl, marinate (if need to) then, turn on the timer and start steaming!! (then you can watch tv or feed your dogs.. while your food is cooking!) Ah, that sounds like a good idea for busy people.. You can always prepare the ingredients in the morning before going for work, then when you come back, just arrange everything together, and steam it! It is as easy as it sounds!
O’rite, back to the recipe
This steamed beancurd is actually quite interesting cause it’s layered (like lasagne) and has century egg (Oh my fav!!!) or rather known as “pei tan” / preserved egg.
Chinese cuisine ingredient made by preserving duck, chicken or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime, and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing. Through the process, the yolk becomes a dark green, cream-like substance with a strong odor of sulphur and ammonia, while the white becomes a dark brown, transparent jelly with little flavor. The transforming agent in the century egg is its alkaline material, which gradually raises the pH of the egg from around 9 to 12 or more.[1] This chemical process breaks down some of the complex, flavorless proteins and fats, which produces a variety of smaller flavourful compounds.
from wikipedia.com
From the exterior, it doesn’t look like the regular egg. There are usually wood husks around the egg or mud or sometimes wrapped with paper. Just remove all the exterior stuffs, then remove the shell and you can eat the egg as it is and serve with preserved ginger. Or you can dice and add them in your pork congee / porridge. Otherwise, steam it like I do..
Steamed Stuffed Layer Beancurd with Century Egg Recipe
(serves 2-4)
(adapted from “Steamed Cuisine: recipes by Hoe Yee & Josten Tan”)
(A)
1 piece soft beancurd in box
1 century egg
1 red chill, sliced
(B)
150g minced prawns
100g minced pork
1 tbsp chopped coriander
1/2 tsp diced carrot
1 tsp corn flour
Seasoning
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp sugar
12 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp pepper
(C)
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp “shaoxing” wine
Method
1. Combine ingredients from (B) with seasoning and stir well. Keep aside
2. Cut and divide the beancurd into 3-4 slices. (I could only get 3 and broke them lol)
3. Place a layer of beancurd on a heatproof plate, spread some filling on it, and cover with another layer. Repeat till all beancurd has been used.
4. On the top, spread some minced filling as well. Then arrange sliced century egg on top with some sliced chilli. Steam for 25 minutes until cooked through. Remove from heat, and spoon in ingredients (C) . Serve hot.
Will probably make this again after I’m finished with the ever growing “to cook” list. Haha.. If it’s troublesome to divide the beancurd, you can just make 1/2 of the filling and spread it ontop, top it off with the century egg.
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Wonderful recipe. Great use of tofu and beancurd. Cheers!
This looks so easy and yummy. I love it!
Oh… to make slicing the beancurd easier,
Slice only when you want to layer.
Place tofu on chopping board, With one palm resting on the tofu, the other with a cleaver, slice it and lightly flip it onto the palm with cleaver. With the cleaver still in place sandwiching the tofu with your palm, lower it onto the steaming plate, cleaver side down and slide cleaver away to place tofu. Put your fillings and slice another piece of tofu again Duh, wonder if you understand me.. hahahah!!!
Gosh, I got to try this one day, I mean the recipe.
@ Lazaro, yup instead of just cooking it the normal way
@anncoo : it's nice to eat also!!
@wendyywy : I get whatu mean .. Hahah next time I will try that method cause I slice evertyhing, then when i try to remove it by layer… TRAGIC !! LOL
Thanks for the tips
Hi Swee San…haha just found this delectable blog of yours. I din know you have another one here :p
I love this…will try this out for I am a tofu lover 🙂
Hi Elin,
Eh? so where did u thought I was blogging from ? wordpress?
Hi! Any tips on how to get the tofu outta the box neatly ie w/o the sides ‘breaking off’?