How to Make Delicious Jujube and Tofu? Detailed Steps and Tips

(1) Ingredients: 250g red jujubes, 4 blocks of tofu, 2 egg whites, a little each of white sugar, refined salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), soy sauce, vinegar, and dry starch, an appropriate amount of wet starch, and 750g lard.

(2) Method

① Rinse the red jujubes clean, soak them in boiling water for about 1 hour, remove and pit them, and sprinkle a layer of dry starch over the jujube flesh;

② Mash the tofu into a paste, add the egg whites, refined salt, and MSG, and mix evenly by hand into a filling;

③ Into the red jujubes sprinkled with dry starch, stuff the tofu filling, pinch the jujube openings closed by hand, and place them opening-side down in a plate; after making them one by one, sprinkle on more dry starch;

④ Set a wok over heat, add the lard and heat it, drop in the red jujubes, and when the jujube skins shrink from frying, scoop them out with a slotted spoon and put them on a plate;

⑤ Wash the original wok and set it over heat, add an appropriate amount of water, add the white sugar, soy sauce, and vinegar, and bring to a boil; thicken with wet starch, then remove from the heat and pour over the red jujubes.