Bear’s Paw Tofu

Name: Bear’s Paw Tofu (Xiong Zhang Dou Fu 熊掌豆腐)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 450 g plain white tofu; 3 baby leeks or spring onions, sliced diagonally into ‘horse ears’, white and green parts separated; 3 baby leeks or spring onions, sliced diagonally into ‘horse ears’, white and green parts separated; ½ tsp caster sugar; 200 ml stock; 2 tbsp Sichuanese chilli bean paste; 200 ml cooking oil, for deep-frying; An equivalent amount of ginger, also sliced; 3 garlic cloves, sliced; ½–1 tsp light soy sauce; ½ tsp potato flour mixed with 2 tsp cold water; ½ tsp potato flour mixed with 2 tsp cold water

Xiong Zhang Dou Fu 熊掌豆腐

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Every Grain of Rice

By Fuchsia Dunlop

Published 2012

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