Salted Pork with Silken Bean Curd

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My selected cookbook for this month at Cookbook Countdown #8 is My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen by Eileen Yin Fei-Lo. 

This simple, quick and easy tofu dish uses the salted pork which I've made a few days earlier.



A few slices of the Salted pork, cut into small pieces.

This dish comes together very quickly, get everything ready beforehand. The ingredients for the sauce is mixed and keep aside. Ginger, garlic and white portion of scallions are first sauteed until the onions are soften. Add the salted pork, stir and cook for 2 minutes, then pour in the sauce, stir and bring to a boil. Add the chopped bean curd, mix and return to a boil. Turn off heat and stir in the green portions of the scallions. Transfer to a dish and serve immediately.

A quick dish to cook for a busy weekday dinner, very nice eaten with white rice. The family loves it.

Salted Pork with Silken Bean Curd

(adapted from "My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen", by Eileen Yin Fei-Lo)

Sauce :
2 tablespoons hot bean sauce
1-1/2 tablespoons Chinkiang vinegar
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1-1/2 tablespoons Shao-Hsing wine, or sherry
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons light soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
pinch white pepper
1/2 cup chicken stock
1-1/2 tablespoons cornstarch

2 tablespoons peanut oil
2 teaspoons minced ginger
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 cup onions, cut into 1/4-inch dice
1/4 cup scallions, white portions only, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
1/2 cup Salted Pork, cut into 1/8-inch dice
1 19-oz container soft bean curd, cut into 1/3-inch cubes
1/2 cup scallions, green portions only, finely sliced

Mix all ingredients for sauce, reserve.
Heat wok over high heat 30 seconds. Add peanut oil and coat wok with spatula. When a wisp of white smoke appears, add ginger and garlic, stir and cook 10 seconds. Add onions and white portions of scallions, mix and cook 3 minutes, until onions soften. Add pork, stir, cook for 2 minutes more. Make well in the mix, stir sauce, pour in, stir to mix, bring to a boil. Add bean curd, mix and return to a boil. Turn off heat immediately. Sprinkle with sliced green portions of scallions, mix well. Transfer to a heating dish and serve with cooked rice.

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