Tender puning dried tofu with a flexible outer skin and tender inner flesh

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It is a folk snack, one of the specialties of Puning City, Guangdong Province. Jieyang cuisine

The outer skin is flexible and the inner flesh is tender and smooth. Puning people mainly cook dried tofu in three ways: frying, baking, and frying. Fried dried beans are the folk flavor of Puning.

Its skin is crispy, the meat is tender and smooth, and it is fragrant in the clear. Dipped in chili vinegar for a more palatable feel. Some overseas Chinese have brought the production process of Puning dried tofu abroad to run this business.

Soybean products made of soybeans as the main raw material, mixed with potato flour, gypsum and brine. Puning dried tofu has the effect of enhancing the body's immunity, preventing arteriosclerosis, promoting bone development, guiding stool, anti-iron deficiency anemia, lowering sugar, antioxidant and anti-aging.

Chinese name Puning dried beans main raw material soybean geographical indication Chaoshan area eating method frying, baking, frying approval time 2006 heritage number IV.-4 intangible cultural heritage level national intangible cultural heritage popular area Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang

method

The main raw materials of dried tofu are soybeans, potato flour, gypsum, and brine. The process flow is: soaking beans, grinding pulp, slag removal, boiling pulp, test powder, mixing gypsum powder, sprinkling brine, lumping, stamping, briquette cloud acid water, cooking, etc. Among them, the soaking time of beans should be timely, otherwise it will affect the quality of dried beans;

Soybean milk test powder, mixed with gypsum temperature must be accurate, should be according to different powders, according to different temperatures, otherwise all destroyed; sprinkling brine should also be timely; and water quality is the most important factor that determines the quality of dried tofu. Presumably this is the mystery, the scientific truth. Interestingly, the authentic Guangnan dried tofu, after being made, there is a small concave square seal in the middle of each piece of dried tofu, which symbolizes the official seal.

derivation

Puning first made dried tofu from Guangnan Village, Liaoyuan Street, Guangdong Province, who learned to make dried beans as early as the early Ming Dynasty. In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, the masses were in full swing, and the Central Plains were in turmoil. Later, Chen Youyu was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and his military master He Yeyun (known as Lice Mother Immortal), He Yeyun, who understood science and was proficient in geography, lived in the Puning area and helped the ancestors of Puning to choose land to build houses, build village gates, and repair tombs. After the death of the second aunt of the Chen clan in Liaoyuan Town, the Beishan Xu clan, when the earth master He Yeyun was wandering here, the descendants asked him to build a tomb for his grandmother, and then chose the place on the Iron Mountain Bang Boron Mountain, known as "Beauty Flower Offering".

Because of the warm welcome from the host family. Feeling the hospitality of the host, I would like to repay the host's family again. After the completion, He Yeyun mysteriously asked the master: "According to the geographical characteristics of Guixiang and the feng shui aura of the ancestral tomb, the descendants of Guixiang will surely be rich and noble in the future." I don't know if you want to sunrise a thousand officials, or three years a high? Without thinking, the master replied casually: "Of course, it is better to have a sunrise and a thousand officials." He Yeyun counted his fingers, knowing that it was a natural opportunity, and sighed with regret. Therefore, according to the local resources and water and soil characteristics, he taught the villagers in Guangnan the technique of making dried beans (the tide sound "dry" and "official" sound the same), in the name of "sunrise thousand officials".

Inheritance

After the success of the production of dried tofu, it mushroomed and developed in Guangnan, not only becoming the main side business of Guangnan Village for hundreds of years, and gradually spreading to all parts of Puning, with the passage of time, it also spread widely from Puning to the whole chaoshan and even many places in China and overseas. The production process of Guangnan dried tofu is the strength of the number of people in Puning Guangnan for hundreds of years. Nowadays, Puning dried tofu has become synonymous with Guangnan dried tofu, some villages have surpassed the production technology of Guangnan Village, large towns and villages sell dried tofu stalls and small food shops dotted around, no matter who tastes dried tofu, especially fried dried tofu, are praised: fried dried beans, fragrant in the clear, supplement but not dry!