Saturday, February 20, 2010

Minced Meat Tofu


I gained weight in just 4 days!! All is due to my failure to control my diet and munched happily too much of CNY cookies, pork jerky and sweet drinks. What to do? Now, I have to follow strictly on low carb diet. No more excuses.

So, today I have minced meat tofu. A dish that easily prepare for lunch or dinner. I minimized the ingredientes to the basic. But, this is a versatile dish. You can use Japanese tofu instead, and you can add on the meat sauce with capsicum, carrot, or even chili.

Minced Meat Tofu
Serves 2
Ingredients:

1 piece of tofu
1 stalk of spring onion, chopped
2 dried mushrooms, soaked and chopped
100gm minced lean pork
1 tbsp of olive oil
2 clove of garlic, peeled and chopped
some water
1tbsp of corn starch diluted in 3 tbsp of water

Seasoning:

1tbsp light soy sauce
1tsp sesame oil
1tsp dark soy sauce
1tsp soy bean sauce
dash of white pepper

Method:

1. Marinate the meat and mushroom with seasoning for 30 minutes.

2. Steam the tofu for about 3 minutes.

3. Heat oil in a wok, saute garlic till fragrant. Add the meat mixture and stir-fry. Continue to stir the meat so that it won't stick together. Add water and leave it simmering for few minutes. Pour in the corn starch mixture to thicken the sauce. Add the spring onion before off the fire.

4. Pour the meat sauce over the tofu. Serve hot with rice.

15 comments:

New Kid on the Blog said...

you ain't alone, pal!!! same here!! :)

George Gaston said...

I have never been a huge fan of tofu, but your Minced 'meat' Tofu sounds unbelievable. I need to give this a try.

Many thanks, you are an inspiration on eating healthier.

Elin Chia said...

Hi Little Inbox...Gong Xi Fa Cai to you and hubby. :) not only you have put on weight ME too! :))

This mince meat tofu is my favourite...infact anything tofu will do. Yours look great..simple yet flavorful. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

tigerfish said...

I do not even dare to weigh myself :O

~Christine~Leng said...

I love this dish :) easy to prepare and love having this with my bowl of rice. yum. Happy CNY to you yea!!!

worldwindows said...

This is my favourite since I was a kid. The soft and velvety Ipoh tofu was one of its kind. The minced meat toppings is excellent!

MODERN ROBINSON CRUSOE said...

Tofu is light so those who eats it regularly should be a lighter person oso (opinion from "non-food expert")

Big Boys Oven said...

wow this is locvely! my favourite dish! so high in protien too!

petite nyonya said...

gong xi, gong xi to you too! gain weight only once a year during CNY is ok, they say can eat, can gain weight means 'fook' (cantonese) or 'fatt' :). haha. the tofu looks refreshing after all those heavy meat dishes during cny.

Selba said...

LOL

No worries of the gain weight! ;)

Yumm.... love minced meat tofu.

Noob Cook said...

I'm in the same boat as you. ate too many pineapple tarts and gained 4 kg in 4 days, lol!

allie said...

Eat first, diet later :P
Your minced meat tofu looks good. There's another version i like too which is using dried shrimp instead of mince meat. It's so flavourful!

Fresh Local and Best said...

This looks very tasty!

MaryMoh said...

That's delicious! I love it. Always great with rice.

Adelene Chin @ Miss Chan Kan Cheong said...

Loving your blog and thanks for sharing this recipe ! My kid loves tofu, perhaps I will fry the tofu and will top it up with minced meat. Keep up the good work!

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