{"id":11558,"date":"2020-05-02T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2020-05-02T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T02:00:54","slug":"stuffed-tofu-with-gravy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=11558","title":{"rendered":"Stuffed Tofu With Gravy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11561 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Braised-Stuffed-Tofu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"547\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11559 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Braised-Stuffed-Tofu-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"479\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We just celebrated my father&#8217;s birthday on Thursday. He&#8217;s 71 years old this year, and I am hoping he will have many more good years ahead. Due to the CB, we could only do a virtual style celebration with him. However, thanks to the still available food delivery services during this period of time, I was able to order some food for them as well, though sadly, it was a challenge to get crabs and a cake, the former of which was his all-time favourite. We&#8217;ll do a better celebration next year, to make up for all that we missed out this year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am also celebrating my 39 years of life this weekend. Again, there&#8217;s not going to be anything fanciful to do at home, perhaps just a quiet and restful weekend with some games and movies. I wish for nothing more than to have this whole episode of COVID-19 done and over with. And for everyone&#8217;s life to go back to normal soon. Can&#8217;t feel anymore thankful to know that my family is all safe and sound during this whole chaotic period. I hope that I could continue to stay sane as well in the next month to come juggling work and home at the same time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am still cooking at least one meal a day, buying in for lunches and cooking simple meals for dinners. Ask me if it&#8217;s tiring to cook and I would say it&#8217;s not too bad, and honestly, it can get even more tiring trying to decide what to buy from the eateries downstairs because it&#8217;s always the same few stalls (minus those that constantly see long, snaking queues). And I know I can&#8217;t complain already because we are staying in an area that is surrounded by lots of good food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This recipe is very simple and can be prepared ahead of time. It also has all that we need for a meal, including vegetables and proteins as well as a delicious gravy to eat the rice with. Try it and see if it tickles your fancy too!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tofu (firm): 5 pieces<\/li>\n<li>Minced pork: 150g<\/li>\n<li>Carrot: 1\/4, peeled and diced<\/li>\n<li>Mirin: 1\/2 cup + 2 tbsp<\/li>\n<li>Fish sauce: 2 tbsp + 2 tbsp<\/li>\n<li>Salt: a pinch<\/li>\n<li>Corn starch: 1 tbsp + 1\/2 cup for coating<\/li>\n<li>Oil: 2 cups<\/li>\n<li>Water: 200ml<\/li>\n<li>Sugar: 1 tbsp<\/li>\n<li>Corn starch mixture: 1 tbsp corn starch + 2 tbsp water<\/li>\n<li>Egg white: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Method<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Place tofu pieces in a shallow dish. Pour boiling water over them and leave for 30min till softened.<\/li>\n<li>Pat dry and half each of them horizontally. Use a knife to create a slit in the middle on one of the longer sides.<\/li>\n<li>In a separate bowl, combine minced pork, carrots, 1\/2 cup mirin, 2 tbsp fish sauce, salt and 1 tbsp corn starch. Stuff a tablespoon full of mixture into the slits of each tofu.<\/li>\n<li>Coat tofu evenly with remaining corn starch.<\/li>\n<li>Heat oil in wok. Place tofu pieces meat-down onto frying pan. Heat till light brown.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat for the other sides of the tofu.<\/li>\n<li>Add in water, 2 tbsp mirin, 2 tbsp fish sauce and sugar. Simmer for 5min till thickened.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in corn starch mixture and egg white. Switch off heat.<\/li>\n<li>Serve hot with rice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11560 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Braised-Stuffed-Tofu-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"545\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Serving<\/strong><\/em>:<br \/>\n5 persons<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:40px;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=11558\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"verdana\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just celebrated my father&#8217;s birthday on Thursday. He&#8217;s 71 years old this year, and I am hoping he will have many more good years ahead. Due to the CB, we could only do a virtual style celebration with him. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=11558\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,38],"tags":[236,242,473],"class_list":["post-11558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-tofu","tag-braised","tag-gravy","tag-stir-fry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11689,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions\/11689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}