What is the correct way to drill tofu with loach in Nanchang?

Is the loach drill tofu really just a legend?

This is the only "loach drill tofu" into the dish on the network, but the traces of artificial insertion is still very heavy.

Whichever way you cook it, it's best to starve the loach for about 7 days to spit out all the dirt and impurities in the body.

As soon as the water temperature reaches 30 degrees Celsius or more, the loach die quickly.

The loach is rich in protein and a variety of vitamins, known as the "water ginseng", if you often watch Korean drama, often see the Korean people to the maternal loach soup footage.

All loach dishes, the most legendary than the "loach drill tofu" - tofu and loach in a pot of cold water,

As the water temperature continues to rise, loach in the hot soup in a hurry nowhere to hide, and finally drilled into the cold tofu, the result can not escape being cooked. So this dish is also called "straw boat borrowing arrows", "sable cicada tofu" (Dong Zhuo is the loach, sable cicada is tofu), "Han Palace Hidden Jiao" and so on.

"Loach drill tofu" is said to have originated in the Zhoukou area of Henan Province, said a fisherman named Xing Wenming, after selling the big loach, the small unattended, so he had to take it home to cook it himself. Once, in order to spice up the flavor of the renovation pattern, so that the small loach and tofu cooked together, and with onions, ginger, garlic and other condiments, uncovered the pot but found that the small loach all drilled into the tofu.

The greatest beauty of this soup dish is unique in appearance, the second is the loach's animal protein and tofu's vegetable protein into one, the flavor is delicious, the soup is very fragrant.

Everything sounds reasonable, the loach can not stand the heat of the water, in the pot banging, naturally choose to drill into the cold tofu. Checked online, Edong, Henan Zhoukou, Jiangxi and many other regions say that this is a local specialty, the practice also said a model, but the problem is that there is not a photo of a dish, not to mention the video as evidence, in the major Chinese cuisine genealogy, there is no record.

The hot loach will really drill tofu? The experiment is a proof, "Express Time - Curious Laboratory" to do a kitchen experiment to show you.

4 years of loach restaurant

Loach basically did not drill into the tofu

Most of the restaurants and hotels in Hangzhou loach dishes, mostly salt and pepper, braised two kinds, and finally, we found a restaurant on Wangjiang Road specializing in loach dishes - "bird loach", owner Pi Pi Pi, "loach", "loach", "loach", "loach", "loach", "loach", "loach", "loach", "loach" and "loach". Loach", the owner Pi Weiqiang said, store opened four years, loach drilled into the tofu, just unintentionally encountered once (drilled into a few can not remember), "10 loach, there can be a drilled in, that luck has been too good to be true." Pi boss was happy to do this experiment together.

Experimental props: a pot, a thermometer, a catty of live loach (the most common varieties on the market), a few pieces of rough texture of the plate tofu.

Pi boss said, burning loach, either way, have to starve the loach for about 7 days, so that the loach spit out all the dirt impurities in the belly, in order to make the starving loach still have the strength to drill into the bean curd, but also have to feed egg whites, to replenish the body strength.

In the kitchen of the "bird loach", we first put the loach and tofu into a pot, add cold water, open the fire. 3 minutes later, the water temperature rose to 20 ℃, the loach in the pot jumping around, and did not take the tofu seriously.

After a short while, the water temperature rose to 30 ℃, the loach began to turn belly dead; water temperature rose to 40 ℃, all the loach in the pot of scalding, out of the tofu to see, a loach did not drill into.

We burned three pots, all ended in failure.

Pi boss said, in the past to store diners do want to point a lot of "loach drill tofu", can suffer from no way to "loach stewed tofu" to "put off" for a long time, the diners will also give up! The first time I saw this, I was so happy to see you, and I'm so happy to see you.

The Qigong master's recipe is not reliable

"Curiosity Lab" asked for help from the audience, enlisting the loach to actively drill into the tofu in a good way. 10/20, living in Xixi Jiayuan 70-year-old Guo Dabu call, said he had an old book at home, may be able to help.

The book is called "qigong medicine bait therapy and rescue deviation surgery", written by Zhou Qianchuan (1908-1971, China's qigong representative), traditional vertical rows, old and yellow. Printed on the back of the book: Shanxi People's Publishing House, first published in August 1959, priced at 1.4 yuan, available at all Xinhua bookstores.

This is a Chinese medicine dietary therapy and health books, which "loach drill tofu" this dish for an elegant name - "jade letter mud", because the tofu white as jade, gray and black as mud. Loach gray and black as mud and come. Uncle Guo said, the book is his youth in Zhoushan to buy, but they have never done "jade letter mud" this dish.

"Yu letter mud" practice is: plate tofu with salt in the pot boiled for 5 minutes to remove the astringent flavor of the brine; after that, use cold water to ice through, and then with the loach in the pot; loach in the pot, salt, ginger, pepper and other ingredients and well, the same time to join the same time, slowly burned over a small fire. The book also said that the hungry loach, the first will keep eating soup ingredients, and so the fire gradually high, the loach will drill into the tofu.

The biggest difference in "Yuhan Mud" is that the tofu is first cooked with salt.

Boss Pi said that this makes sense, as the tofu will be more resilient and less prone to breakage when it is salted.

We did as we were told, but when the loach and seasoning together into the pot, perhaps the irritation of the seasoning, the loach did not wait for the ignition of the fire began to jump; and so the water temperature rose to about 40 ℃, a pot of loach all dead, or none of the drilling into the tofu to go.

Add vinegar to the water

The loach die faster

In the past two days, the audience continued to provide us with a lot of methods, one of which, Mr. Teng said, the key is to add vinegar to the cold water, so that the loach will take the initiative to drill into the tofu.

Mr. Teng's method is to put the loach in a pot without turning on the heat, add water, put the tofu in the middle of the pot, and then pour rice vinegar along the walls of the pot.

Mr. Teng told us to pour the vinegar from the outside to the inside, so that the loach will be driven into the tofu by the vinegar.

However, after pouring the vinegar, the loach still reacted very well, jumping around and stirring the vinegar in a circle. More sadly, the loach in the vinegar water was tossed enough, only to warm water, a strip has long been exhausted and died, the death rate is significantly faster than other methods.

We are not willing to be so defeated, tender tofu, old tofu, small loach, big loach, rotated for more than 10 times, the result is still the same.

"Warm water boiled frog" is also just a legend

From the results of the experiment, "loach drilling tofu" may really be just a legend.

Pi boss said, like him to do professional loach chef, can only say, loach drilling tofu, rely entirely on luck; as for the salt, vinegar and other spices and loach with the pot, these methods are even more unreliable, will only accelerate the death of the loach.

"Loach is very afraid of heat, high temperature a little higher will die;

"Now the loach wild is not much, most of the artificial breeding, after 7 days of starvation, even if fed egg white, the vitality is still not as tenacious as the wild, especially in autumn and winter, the loach and began to enter the 'dormant' state.

"The other thing is that the softness of the tofu is critical, the old tofu is too hard to drill into, and the built-in tofu is too soft to fall apart when you touch it."

Pi boss said very seriously: to his four years of experience specializing in burning loach, this dish is really just a legend, which pavilion can really come up with this dish, most likely to kill the good loach artificially inserted into the tofu.

Loach drill tofu practice

Instruments

1. buy back the loach should be raised for 2 days to spit out the mud, I bought the loach stall owners raised a few days, I just a few drops of frying oil in the loach pots, but also raised a half a day; loach slippery slippery not good to wash, largely washed a few times;

2. frying pan to put the right amount of oil, slightly hot, put the minced onion, minced garlic,

2. Onion, garlic,

3. Stir-fry aroma, add a spoonful of chili sauce, stir-fry evenly;

4. Add water to the pot, boil over high heat,

5. Wash the loach poured into the pot, and immediately cover the lid of the pot, so that the loach fluttered everywhere in red oil;

6. Stewing until the soup reduces the seasoning, add salt, sprinkle with parsley, you can be sheng out;

Tips buy back the loach should be raised for one to two days, spit mud, you can also put some vegetable oil in the amount of water, fast spit mud

I ate as a child, our family caught a lot of loach, my mother put the loach with water for half a month, you have to change the water every day to the end of the water is clear on the loach can be done to drill the bean curd, the pot of cold water to put the bean curd into it, and then the loach into it, make sure to cover the pot lid, and then begin to boil the fire. lid, and then start the fire, the beginning of a small fire, slowly turn to medium heat, stew half an hour to forty minutes with a little salt, add some seasoning on the good

Puji answered this question, that the loach is impossible to drill into the bean curd, but also really have done a few times, have not succeeded. After the answer was sent out, many users gave comments, there are praise and scolding, and also cited examples to say practice. Puji really long knowledge. After verification, this dish really have, in some townships in the south of the Yangtze River hotel generally have to do. Puji this will say successful practice, so that your loach properly drilled into the tofu.

The key to this dish is to live loach into the tofu, and then stewed into the dish. Grasp the three key points must be successful:

⒈ tofu must be dealt with first. Buy a dozen centimeters square of tender tofu, into the freezer to freeze through. Then take it out to thaw, squeeze out the water, and then put it in the freezer.

Peak loach must be the fry of the year. The loach spawns in early summer and grows into shape in the fall, about the thickness of a chopstick head, so this dish is only available in the fall. Loach bought back to keep not feeding, three days after the belly dirty drain, do dishes before you can make an egg to feed them.

The fire must be grasped precisely in place. Choose the traditional cone bottom iron pot and wood-burning stove. Loach and cold water into the pot, the stove burns a small fire, small enough to lick the flame to the bottom of the pot, the water burned to more than twenty degrees, the loach have begun to annoy, the refrigerator out of the tofu into the pot. Continue to maintain a small fire until the loach all drilled into the tofu, and then give the onion, ginger, sweet wine, salt and a spoonful of stock, start a large fire to boil, turn to medium heat and simmer for 30 minutes.

The water in the pot should be enough to submerge the tofu. After stewing, add cilantro, pepper, small milled oil, start the pot to pot, into the dish on the table.

1. buy back the loach with water to raise 2 - 3 days, change the water 4 - 5 times a day, let the loach spit clean impurities

2. loach fishing

3. with 80 degrees of water scalding, remove the surface mucus. Don't use boiling water, it will break the skin.

4. a piece of tofu, cut into rectangular blocks

5. pot of water, under the human loach, should be used in stock, I do not have today, just use the boiled pork, cut a few large slices, so that cooked loach will not be firewood, soup is also better.

6. pot of water, the next person loach tofu also put in

7. ginger, pepper, dried chili peppers, salt all into

8. small fire stew for 10 minutes

9. add yellow wine

10. continue to stew for 5 minutes

11. stewed loach and tofu soup

12. put a little onion flavor, and add some colorful peppers with the color of the soup. The first thing you need to do is to add some colorful peppers to match the color. Drizzle a few drops of sesame oil can be

Tips hot loach when you must not use boiling water, otherwise the skin will be open flesh bloom

Doing this dish first you have to solve the loach mucus, otherwise cooked your dishes will not be able to eat. Secondly, you need to remove the dirt from the loach, because it is not slaughtered. (The big ones have to be slaughtered and you want to eat the innards? (A slaughter can only be manually let it drill, so choose smaller loach) Also, I will tell you the water temperature up after the release of tofu, because the loach heat scurrying, it will run out.

A number of small loach, tender tofu a piece, you can properly put some vegetables and so on. Chicken powder monosodium glutamate salt appropriate amount, cooking wine, vinegar (wash loach with), white wine (you can not use, this depends on your preference), onion and ginger, star anise, and then you want to have a loach can not run out of the big pot pot or so.

Choose to use a small thumb size loach, the first loach to raise a period of time, spit out the dirt in the stomach, more than a few times to change the water, and then add white wine soak (this is purely a personal preference), and then wash with salt and vinegar (some people touch the yam will be itchy hands can also be used to salt and vinegar scrubbing), the pot on the fire to add water to the bean curd and then put the loach (don't hot water to put, like eel to do the Panlong eel if you put the hot oil directly), the cover is not good luck. (bad luck is you) cover the pot, the water is hot loach drilled into the tofu, when the loach cooked to start putting seasoning, put onions and ginger to fishy, salt MSG chicken powder appropriate amount of salty and fresh flavor type of children, small fire stew soup into white when the pot, if not white you can add a little pure milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk, or something, the chef should understand what it is. You can also put some appropriate green vegetables, goji berries garnish.

The above is my practice, if there are other on the share out of the discussion

Loach drill tofu to first loach water to rest for a few days, loach to choose the kind of very small, followed by the selection of tender tofu, the tofu in the refrigerator first, can not be frozen, the pot of human cold water, loach into it, open fire to 15 degrees or so, turn off the fire, in the frozen tofu, the loach is heated! After the cold will naturally drill to the cold tofu, in the loach drill tofu when the temperature can be controlled!

Preparation materials

square tender tofu a

loach ten

ginger

scallions

chicken powder moderate

salt appropriate

wine (preferably Fujian wine)

first tender tofu in the refrigerator to keep fresh, to be done to the heart of the cold

with a pot of oil. ginger and scallions burst incense, into the cold water, put the loach

high heat heating to about twenty degrees, remove the refrigerator tender tofu, placed in the middle of the pot, because the water temperature is only about twenty degrees loach will not die, only because of the high temperature of the water to wear around, cover the lid of the pot.

Tender tofu just out of the refrigerator is cold, the loach will drill themselves into it, to avoid the feeling of heat, which is the loach drill tofu origin.

After the water boils, then simmer for about 15 minutes, add salt, chicken powder for seasoning, drizzle a little cooking wine, sprinkle with chopped green onion can be out of the pot.

The flavor is delicious and nutritious, and you can usually do more to give your children to eat.

According to the above steps 100% success rate

I hope to help you, if you need can collect!

Ingredients: 200g loach, 500g tofu, 1 green onion, 1 small piece of ginger, 15 tbsp stock, 1 tsp pepper, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp MSG.

Steps: 1, scallions cut into pieces, ginger pat loose; loach resting a few days after washing; 2, pot of cold water, turn on the low heat, put the tofu in the middle of the pot, put the loach in the surrounding, to be slowly heated in the pot of water, the loach will be drilled into the tofu; 3, after all the loach drilled into the tofu, remove the tofu, placed in a soup bowl, filled with broth, salt, pepper, ginger, scallions, monosodium glutamate (MSG), steamed for 15 minutes! can be.

The lye is key! Use a shallow funnel inserted in the tofu, put the loach into the funnel and sprinkle a little bit of lye on the loach, then the loach will drill towards the tofu!

What is the correct way to drill tofu with loach? Can you really drill into the tofu? This is a question that many people are curious about! I am also very curious, in order to prove the fact, these days access to a lot of relevant information, and watched the relevant video practice. Empty words are not evidence, to see is to believe, and finally my colleagues are also very curious, so I did a small experiment. How is the result? No hurry, let's first look at the Internet is how to do it.

There are many netizens live loach drill tofu, no one has succeeded. But in Fujian, a local TV channel, festival name "I love the kitchen", a period of time to do a "loach drill tofu" dish, but successful, really drilled in, so incredible ah.

Is it possible that all the netizens are not doing the right thing? What is the principle of the loach drill tofu? We first come to understand.

According to legend, before the circle in Zhoukou Temple Street, there is a fisherman always fishing shrimp for a living. From time to time to catch some loaches, the big ones are sold out, leaving the small ones no one wants. Stop can only eat their own, used to eating the usual practice, tired of trying new tricks. So I bought tofu, ginger and green onion to cook. Loach is too small, not easy to clean up, so I put the whole into the pot, tofu is also the whole set aside into the ginger and green onions, cover the pot. After a few minutes to open, found that the loach are drilled into the tofu, leaving only the tail outside, very strange and interesting. This method was soon spread in folklore, and took an interesting name "loach drill tofu".

The principle of the Internet is that the loach in the hot soup, the heat forced to run around, just tofu is cold, so they are drilled into the cold tofu, hiding to save their lives.

Listening to the good sense of ah, but how to do the netizens do not succeed? But the TV station did it successfully? Watch carefully to find the cat, gourmet program is broadcast to the key moment, suddenly inserted a commercial, and so the commercials back, the camera playback has come to the seasoning stage, looked at is drilled into the blank stage, I do not know whether it is not with the hands of the loach stuffed into the tofu, this there is no way to know.

In order to verify that it is not true, with a variety of methods taught online, colleagues did an experiment.

1, first put the loach in the water to spit out the dirt, placed a few hours.

2, the pot into the cold water, and then into the loach, cold tofu into the whole chunk. (Look at the teaching is to say that the tofu frozen cold to work, and tofu to be tender, the loach to drill into, are one by one according to do.)

3, open the fire, the water to 20 ℃, (said the water temperature is very important, too hot to react to the death, before drilling not into.) Also did so.) Cover the pot, open fire and cook slowly.

4, after a few minutes, the pot did not move, just started crackling, thought the loach can not stand the heat, will drill into the tofu. Open the lid to see, all dead, those who say can succeed are lying. Afterwards, I thought it could be, this time there are some key places to sit wrong, re-read the relevant teaching, and then do it twice, are ended in failure, so the loach drilling tofu is really a legend, impossible!

Finally, this is not good at all, are a whole strip, a whole block, which has flavor, even if it is put is seasoning, but also can not enter the flavor.