China

Savoury douhua

Name: Savoury douhua
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 packs silken tofu; 1 1/4 cups vegetable stock (vegetable broth); Dried wood ear mushroom (dried black fungus), dried, soaked and slivered; 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp dark soy sauce; 1/2 tsp sugar; 1 tbsp in 2 tbsp water cornflour (cornstarch); Zha cai, chopped; 2 tbsp roasted peanuts; 2 tsp chinese chilli oil; 2 stalks sliced spring onion (green onion, scallion); a few sprigs coriander leaves (cilantro); 1 tsp sesame oil

Warm, wobbly tofu pudding under a soy gravy, chilli oil and crunchy pickles. Savoury team, assemble.

20 minTime

14 gProtein each

mediumSpice

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

244kcal

14 gprotein

3 gfibre

20minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Silken tofu2 packs

Vegetable stock (vegetable broth)1¼ cups

Dried wood ear mushroom (dried black fungus)dried, soaked and slivered

Soy sauce1½ tbsp

Dark soy sauce1 tsp

Sugar½ tsp

Cornflour (cornstarch)1 tbsp, in 2 tbsp water

Zha caichopped

Peanuts2 tbsp, roasted

Chinese chilli oil2 tsp

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)2 stalks, sliced

Coriander leaves (cilantro)a few sprigs

Sesame oil1 tsp

Method

4 steps

1Place the tofu, still in its box, in a pot of hot water for 5 minutes to warm through.
2Simmer the stock, wood ear, soy sauce, dark soy sauce and sugar for 3 minutes. Stir in the slurry and cook until glossy.
3Scoop the tofu into bowls in thin slabs with a wide spoon.
4Pour over the gravy and top with zha cai, peanuts, chilli oil, spring onion, coriander and sesame oil.

Serve it like this

Serve in small bowls with the toppings heaped in the centre, chilli oil drizzled in a circle around them.

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