Gold and Jade Full House

Name: Gold and Jade Full House
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 150 g shrimp paste (to spread on tofu); 250 g tofu (remove aged skin, slice into 5cm thick pieces); 500 g Chinese leafy greens (blanch in salted oil water); 5 g salt; 2 g MSG; 10 g starch (dry starch for coating tofu, wet starch for thickening sauce); 50 g egg wash (for dipping tofu); 20 g Shaoxing wine; 50 g vegetable oil (70% hot for deep-frying tofu); 10 g scallion and ginger water; 0.5 g white pepper powder; to taste superior stock (for braising tofu)

A Zhejiang-style innovative dish featuring tofu stuffed with shrimp paste, fried until golden, served with blanched vegetable stems and finished with a thickened sauce. Golden in color with a rich, layered texture.

35 min

Easy

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Ingredients

shrimp paste (to spread on tofu) 150 g

tofu (remove aged skin, slice into 5cm thick pieces) 250 g

Chinese leafy greens (blanch in salted oil water) 500 g

salt 5 g

MSG 2 g

starch (dry starch for coating tofu, wet starch for thickening sauce) 10 g

egg wash (for dipping tofu) 50 g

Shaoxing wine 20 g

vegetable oil (70% hot for deep-frying tofu) 50 g

scallion and ginger water 10 g

white pepper powder 0.5 g

superior stock (for braising tofu) to taste

Instructions

Make tofu sandwich

Remove the aged skin from tofu, cut into 5cm thick slices, coat with dry starch, spread shrimp paste on one slice, top with another tofu slice, coat evenly with dry starch, dip in egg wash, fry in 70% hot oil until golden brown, remove and drain excess oil.

Prepare Chinese leafy greens

Blanch the Chinese leafy greens in salted oil water, arrange on a serving plate.

Braise and plate

Leave a small amount of base oil in the pan, add scallion and ginger water, superior stock, Shaoxing wine, salt, white pepper powder, add the fried tofu and braise until flavors infuse. Transfer the tofu to the plate with the leafy greens. Add MSG to the pan sauce, thicken with wet starch, add finishing oil, pour the sauce over the tofu and greens to serve.