Chinese
Hong Shao Dou Fu (Red-Braised Tofu)
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Hong Shao Dou Fu (Red-Braised Tofu) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the tofu into thick slabs, pat dry, and pan-fry in the oil over medium-high heat until golden on both sides, about 6 minutes total.
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Push the tofu to the side and add the ginger, stirring 20 seconds until fragrant.
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Add both soy sauces, the sugar and the water, and bring to a simmer.
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Cook 5 minutes, spooning the sauce over the tofu, until it reduces and coats the pieces.
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Stir the cornstarch into a tablespoon of cold water and swirl it in to thicken the sauce.
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Scatter with scallions and serve.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Hong Shao Dou Fu (Red-Braised Tofu), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Hong Shao Dou Fu (Red-Braised Tofu) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 270 kcal
- Protein
- 20 g
- Carbs
- 1 g
- Fat
- 21 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 700 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Hong Shao Dou Fu (Red-Braised Tofu) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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