Lunar New Year Day 4: A Simple Block of Sauce-Braised Tofu

What can you do with a plain block of tofu? Xiucai Doufang gets hands-on and shows you how to make sauce-braised tofu.

Ingredients:
One block of Xiucai Doufang tofu
Yellow soybean paste, chilli sauce (optional), light soy sauce, salt, chopped spring onion

Method:
1. Cut the tofu into chunks, blanch it, and set it aside.
2. Heat some oil in a wok, add the yellow soybean paste when hot, and stir-fry until fragrant.
3. Add the tofu and stir-fry, then add the light soy sauce and salt.
4. Add half a bowl of water and simmer for three minutes.
5. Reduce the sauce over high heat, sprinkle with chopped spring onion, and serve.

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Time to eat! For the new year, savour good food with a known origin.

Foodthink and the farmers at Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market present a “recipe book of Lunar New Year dishes” made from their own produce.

This recipe book contains no recipes precise to the gram or the minute, and no fancy, complicated methods.

What you find instead is certainty and confidence in the ingredients, and simple, caring advice, as if speaking to family.

Thoughtfully produced ingredients don’t need you to rack your brains; a neat, easy method, plus just the right heat, is enough.

In this recipe book, there is a real person standing behind every dish—
The farmers know exactly what is good about their produce and how to cook it in a way that does that goodness justice.

When a block of tofu can give its name, a chicken can recite its history, and a radish dares to tell you not to peel it—good flavour comes naturally.

From the second to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, six farmers’ New Year dishes, one a day.

Lunar New Year Day 2: Fragrant Steamed Free-Range Pork
Lunar New Year Day 3: Superb Stir-Fried Chicken

Grow with care, make with a light heart, eat with peace of mind.