Steps to Prepare Homemade Chinese celery w/ Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese celery w/ tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chinese celery w/ Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chinese celery w/ Tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

This is Chinese celery - I prefer to use this because it is smaller and stays tender. Add celery and blanch for about a minute; drain in colander and run under cold water to stop the cooking process. Layer celery and tofu on serving plates, drizzle with chili oil and sprinkle. Look for pressed tofu, sometimes called "baked tofu" in cryovac packages or in bulk (at Chinese markets only).

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chinese celery w/ tofu using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese celery w/ Tofu:

1. Get .5 lb pork butt; cut into.5” chunks
2. Take 1/4 c shrimp
3. Get 1 tbsp cornstarch
4. Take 2 stalks Chinese celery; stalks cut into 1” pieces, leaves set aside
5. Make ready Tofu; lightly fried
6. Get .5 onion, cut into chunks
7. Prepare 2 Roma tomatoes; cut into chunks
8. Prepare 2 tbsp garlic; chopped
9. Get 1 tbsp black bean sauce
10. Get 2 tsp oyster sauce
11. Get 1/4 c chicken broth

Pungent and peppery, Chinese celery tastes similar to regular celery, only much stronger - it is rarely eaten raw. Toss in stir-fries, fried rice dishes or In days past, Chinese celery leaves were gathered for medicinal uses. Because of the volatile oil it produces, this biennial herb plant was also used as. Chinese celery is somewhat different from the celery that typically line most produce shelves in American supermarkets.

Instructions to make Chinese celery w/ Tofu:

1. Coat the pork with soy sauce and cornstarch. Sauté in a pan with 3tbsp oil until cooked through.
2. Separate the Chinese celery stalks from the leaves.
3. Sauté your onion for a minute then add your garlic. Then the tomatoes.
4. Grandma added this salted soy bean paste in. You can sub with black bean sauce; I think they’re the same. Add in your shrimp and the oyster sauce.
5. Continue to sauté until the tomatoes are soft. Then stir in the celery stalks.
6. Last but not least, the celery leaves. Add the chicken broth as needed to keep the moisture. Turn off the heat and set aside.
7. Here’s grandpa frying up the tofu.
8. And you’re done! Enjoy!

Because of the volatile oil it produces, this biennial herb plant was also used as. Chinese celery is somewhat different from the celery that typically line most produce shelves in American supermarkets. It has a much stronger Chinese celery recipes often include sliced dried tofu, julienned beef, pork or chicken, or cross-cut squid or cuttlefish. Feel free to choose any of those. The Kinchay (Chinese celery) has a pronounced fragrance and flavor that complements the tofu so well.

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