Young tofu has high protein content and contains many essential amino acids, so it has many good effects on health such as preventing cardiovascular disease, reducing premenopausal symptoms, preventing cancer, and reducing blood sugar levels… With this ingredient, you can make many dishes such as fried young tofu with salted eggs, spicy young tofu, young tofu soup with straw mushrooms…
Young tofu and minced meat are both cheap, easy to cook, and suitable for all ages. However, not everyone knows how to combine these 2 ingredients with pickled cabbage to make minced meat stir-fried with pickled cabbage and young tofu according to this simple recipe.
1. Ingredients for minced meat stir-fried with pickled cabbage and young tofu:
– Young tofu: 1 box
– Minced meat: 100 grams
– Pickled cabbage: 1 small bowl (To make the dish more delicious and beautiful, you should only take the stem)
– Seasonings: 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 2 tablespoons cooking oil, ½ tablespoon oyster sauce
2. Steps to make minced meat stir-fried with pickled cabbage and young tofu:
Step 1: Prepare the ingredients:
– After buying young tofu, cut it into small square pieces.
– Rinse the pickled cabbage to reduce the sour and salty taste and then cut it into small pieces.
Step 2: Stir-fry the minced meat with pickled cabbage:
– Place the pan on the stove, add a little cooking oil and heat it up, then add the minced meat and stir-fry.
– Wait until the minced meat changes color, then add 1 tablespoon soy sauce and ½ tablespoon oyster sauce.
– Continue to stir-fry until the meat is firm, then add the finely chopped pickled cabbage and stir-fry for a while and turn off the heat.
Step 3: Steam the young tofu with minced meat stir-fried with pickled cabbage:
– Arrange the sliced young tofu on a deep plate. Then take the stir-fried minced meat with pickled cabbage and spread it evenly on the surface of the plate of young tofu.
– Boil a pot of water, then steam the plate of minced meat stir-fried with pickled cabbage and young tofu for about 10 minutes.
– Then take out the dish and enjoy it slowly.
Minced meat stir-fried with pickled cabbage and young tofu has easy-to-prepare ingredients, simple cooking steps, but its attractiveness is no less than “a beautiful landscape.” When eating, you can feel the soft and fatty taste of young tofu combined with the crispy and sour pickled cabbage, and the sweet and rich minced meat. This dish is best served with hot rice and is very suitable for cold winter dishes.
3. Notes when making minced meat stir-fried with pickled cabbage and young tofu:
– You should choose young tofu with milky white color because they usually have less chalk and taste better. In addition, you should also smell it before buying and choose a piece with a light aroma of soybeans.
– To ensure hygiene, you can choose meat with a fat-to-lean ratio of 8:2 or 9:1 and then grind or mince it at home. Such meat pieces will be tender, aromatic, neither too dry nor too greasy.