Chinese
Jia Chang Dou Fu (Home-Style Braised Tofu with Pork)
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the tofu into thick slabs and pan-fry in half the oil until golden on both sides, about 6 minutes, then set aside.
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Heat the remaining oil in the same pan and stir-fry the pork until just cooked, about 2 minutes.
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Add the doubanjiang and garlic and stir-fry 30 seconds until the oil turns red and fragrant.
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Add the green pepper and stir-fry 1 minute, then pour in the soy sauce and water and bring to a simmer.
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Return the tofu to the pan and simmer 5 minutes, spooning the sauce over gently so the slabs stay whole.
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Stir the cornstarch into a tablespoon of cold water and swirl it in to thicken, then 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 Jia Chang Dou Fu (Home-Style Braised Tofu with Pork), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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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. Jia Chang Dou Fu (Home-Style Braised Tofu with Pork) 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
- 400 kcal
- Protein
- 28 g
- Carbs
- 2 g
- Fat
- 31 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 570 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Jia Chang Dou Fu (Home-Style Braised Tofu with Pork) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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