Sauteed Bean Curd Family Style

Name: Sauteed Bean Curd Family Style (Chia ch’ang tou fu)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon sesame oil; ½ cup soup stock; 1-½ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 tablespoon bean paste (hot); 1 tablespoon bean paste (hot); 1 teaspoon chopped ginger; 1 tablespoon mashed garlic; 1 tablespoon cornstarch paste; 1 tablespoon chopped scallion; 3 oz. chopped pork or beef; 3 oz. chopped pork or beef; 4 cups oil; 4 pieces tender bean curd (3” by 3”)

Chia ch’ang tou fu

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

4 pieces tender bean curd (3” by 3”)
4 cups oil
3

Asia
Taiwan
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Cut the bean curd into 1-½ inches square pieces. Cut each square piece into two triangles. Then cut each piece horizontally so that each piece is about ½ inch thick.
Heat the oil in a pan. Fry the bean curd until it is golden. Remove the bean curd from the pan and reduce the oil to 2 tablespoons.
Heat the 2 tablespoons of oil in the pan. Stir-fry the