Teochew Treasure Beancurd 传统潮州豆干
Everyone has an especially memorable dish, prepared by their loved ones. This Teochew Treasure Beancurd is such a special dish for our family. The semi-soft teochew beancurd takes centre stage in this simple yet nutritional and delicious dish. This teochew treasure beancurd dish is extremely simple and easy to cook. Only 4 ingredients needed: beancurd, fresh coriander leaves, salt and of course, oil for deep frying.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 4 blocks white bean curd (Teochew style beancurd preferred, cut into cubes)
- 2 stalks coriander leaves
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil (deep fry the bean curd)
- 1.5 tbsp garlic (minced (optional))
Instructions
- 1
Have ready all ingredients needed for this vegetarian beancurd dish.
- 2
Try to use "Teochew taukwa" or "Teochew beancurd", which is a semi-soft beancurd. Otherwise any semi-soft beancurd will do the job.
- 3
Slice each beancurd into 4 equal squares. Be careful not to break the squares.
- 4
Wash, drained well the coriander leaves and cut into long strips, about 1 inch in length. And we're ready to cook the dish!
- 5
Heat up enough oil to fry the pieces of teochew beancurd. Insert a wooden stick into the oil. The oil will bubble around the stick when it's ready for frying.
- 6
When the oil is ready, gently lower the beancurd cubes into the wok.
- 7
Using medium heat, fry the beancurd pieces in batches, turning carefully until lightly golden and is crispy on the outside and cooked throughout.
- 8
When done, dish out the fried beancurd from wok with a strainer.
- 9
Drain the beancurd on paper towel to remove excess oil.
- 10
Then, remove all the oil from wok and heat up the wok. (If using garlic, saute garlic till fragrant)
- 11
Add the pieces of fried teochew beancurd into the heated up wok.
- 12
Sprinkle salt over the fried beancurd cubes.
- 13
Stir fry to mix the salt evenly into the fried beancurd.
- 14
Then, add in the fresh cut coriander leaves.
- 15
Stir to combine everything together, making sure the salt is fully infused and the coriander leaves are well mixed and leave a refreshing taste to the fried beancurd.
- 16
Dish out on plate immediately and serve warm with hot steamed rice. As always, ENJOY!