China is an ancient civilization, but also a big agricultural country, for food cooking, has always been very particular. Therefore, the development continues to this day, and various special foods are mouth-watering.
There is a sentence in the "History of Li Sheng Lu Jialie": "The king takes the people as the heaven, and the people take the food as the heaven." "The delicious pursuit of food, the industrious and kind Chinese never stopped.
Among the dazzling recipes, there is a famous dish with traditional flavors from the folk that is very eye-catching, and just looking at the name of this dish, it is very attractive: "loach drill tofu".
<h3 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the origin of "loach drill tofu"</h3>
There are two versions of the origin of the dish's name.
This first version is somewhat far-fetched and relates to characters from the Three Kingdoms. Loach lives in the thin mud with water, and it is slippery, so the people use the loach as a metaphor for the treacherous Dong Zhuo.
Although the loach is slippery, it still can't escape the end of being cooked. The cold tofu is put into the pot, and the water temperature gradually rises, which makes the loach have to choose to burrow into the tofu, thinking that it can escape the disaster, but did not think that even the tofu is just a raw material.
And all this is just like Wang Yun offering sable cicadas and using beauty to plan the same. Therefore, "loach drill tofu" also has a name, called "mink cicada tofu".
The second version is much more credible, in Henan Zhoukou Circle Temple Street, there is a very industrious fisherman named Xing Wenming, he fishes for fish and shrimp for a living, although not rich, but can also eat a full meal. In the process of fishing, you can catch a lot of loach every time, and the large loach is very popular and can be sold out basically every time. The rest of the loach is not cared for, xing wenming as a fisherman, naturally know how to cook.
After thinking about it, he put the loach and tofu together in a pot and boiled it. It's almost time to add seasonings such as green onions and ginger, not to mention that this tastes really good. Surprisingly, Xing Wenming found that the small loach had all burrowed into the tofu, but the tail was left outside.
This way of cooking loach is very novel, the so-called curiosity is a big nature, after the local folk spread, people rushed to imitate, and named this dish "loach drill tofu".
<h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "loach drill tofu" has been continuously improved and is very popular</h3>
The practice of "loach drilling tofu" seems simple, but it is actually very elaborate, and in the process of inheritance, the chefs have improved it to suit the requirements of different flavors in different places.
The way to make this dish is like this, first of all to ensure that the ingredients are clean and hygienic. Loach needs to be packed in a container with clear water and a small amount of salt, which is done to make the loach spit out the sediment in its stomach, a process that takes one night.
The next day, the processed loach is heated in a pot with tender tofu in order to burrow the loach into the tender tofu. After the pot is out of the pot, add green onion, monosodium glutamate, ginger and other condiments, a piece of tofu white, delicious and spicy, soup creamy "loach drill tofu" is made.
In order to pursue the deliciousness of the dishes, the chefs will place the loach in a basin of water with egg white liquid, for the same purpose as salt, in order to remove and wash the loach from the body.
For the taste of cooking, the pot will be a casserole pot, and simmered with cold pork rib soup, tender tofu and small loach together, covered and slow simmered, until the soup boiling loach is all cooked thoroughly, and then simmered for a certain period of time, and finally add a variety of condiments to cook.
<h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > loach really burrow into the tofu? After the experiment, the truth finally came out</h3>
"Loach drill tofu" is just the name of the dish, will the two ingredients of loach and tofu really "merge into one"? With doubts, we did many experiments and finally got a consistent result.
In the first experiment, after preparing the required ingredients, first put the loach and tofu in a pot, add cold water, and simmer. Then you will find that after the water temperature rises to 10 ° C, the loach can no longer stand it and begins to jump around. When the water temperature reaches 20 ° C, the loach has collapsed, and when the water temperature reaches 30 ° C, the loach is all boiled to death. Take out the tofu to check, not a loach has burrowed in.
In the second experiment, the order in which loach and tofu are placed is adjusted, and the loach and water are put into the pot first, and then the tofu is added after a little heating. Finally, I took out the tofu to check it, and it turned out that a loach did not drill into it.
In the third experiment, the order of experiment two was reversed, and the water and tofu were first put into the pot, and after a little heating, the loach was added. This time it was a failure, the loach was burned when it was put in, and there was no time to drill the tofu.
The fourth experiment summarized the reasons for the failure of the first three times and improved them. First, boil the tofu with salt to remove the astringency of the brine. Ice water is then used to increase the toughness of the tofu and prevent the loach from crushing it when it is drilled.
Next, the loach and tofu are heated in a pot, and in order to increase the activity of the loach, this time the spices are also added to the pot. The stimulated loach was really energetic, and the pot began to jump around, but unfortunately, until it was cooked, not a single loach burrowed into the tofu.
The fifth experiment, improving the method of the fourth. Put the condiments in a pot with loach tofu, not heating, and let the loach drill for a while. It was then heated up again, and as a result, the loach had limited physical strength and was significantly less active when heated. The final result is still the same, and the failure ends.
All five experiments yielded a result that loach would not burrow into the tofu at all. Not only that, but after watching many people's experiments, the results ended in failure.
< h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary</h3>
"Loach drill tofu" is just a dish name, loach with tofu is very delicious, but it is almost impossible to really want loach to drill into the tofu by itself.
Whether it is tofu at room temperature, or tofu refrigerated in the refrigerator, or toddler with small holes in the tofu, after heating, loach in addition to jumping around, rarely can drill into the tofu, even if there is, it is only a case of mistakenly hitting, want loach to drill into the tofu, unless human intervention.
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