
INTRODUCTION
This is a simple dish without much history or anything to introduce. It is quite a common dish in Malaysia restaurants. It is just combining a few ingredients and make it a presentable dish to serve your house guest. It is tofu or bean curd mixed with fish paste and become “SEAFOOD TOFU”……
Tofu or bean curd is one of the most nutritious food in Asian cuisines. Not only nutritious, it is healthy.. It is made from soya beans and there are tons of soya bean based products in Asian cuisines. I am sharing this simple recipe which I hope readers will like….
It is rather easy to buy fish paste in Singapore. Households and chefs used fish paste to make a variety of cuisines such as fish balls, meat rolls,stuffed into vegetables and etc. to make Yong tau foo.. However, in countries where this is not common, you can just follow the following simple steps to prepare your own fish paste:
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Have some fish fillet (e.g mackerel) that have little bones or very big bones that you can take it out easily;
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Put all the fish meat into a food processor, add some corn flour (about 200 grams of fish meat with 1 tablespoon of corn flour), some black or white pepper, some salt and other seasonings of your choice.
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Blend until fine, scoop out and keep it in the fridge.
WHAT IS REQUIRED
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2 packets of tofu (about 600 grams)
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1 stick of egg tofu (optional)
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300 grams of fish paste
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Some seasonings to taste
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2 tablespoons of corn flours *
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Adequate corn flours for coating *
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Adequate cooking oil for deep frying *
Optional ingredients
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1 egg*
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Some coriander leaves or spring onions or Chinese celery (for green colour)
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Some red cut chilli (for red colour)
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Some mushrooms (for black colour)
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2 tablespoons of rice flour for coating*
* Not in picture
STEPS OF PREPARATION
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Lightly grease a 6” or 8” baking tin or dish with some cooking oil. Set aside for later use.
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Put all the coriander leaves and/or spring onions and/or Chinese celery, red chilli, mushroom into the food processor, and slightly blend it a few time.
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Add in 2 tablespoons of corn flours, fish paste, egg tofu, normal tofu, seasonings of your choice (light soya sauce, white pepper, sugar, salt etc.) into the food processor.
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Blend the ingredients until very fine and transfer to the greased baking tin. Level the mixture.
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Cover the top with clingy wrap. Steamed under high heat for 15-20 minutes or until the seafood tofu is set. Let it cool or if you have time, chill it in the fridge for 1-2 hours. Chilling is to make the tofu slightly harder and easier to cut and handle for later deep frying.
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Cut the tofu into desire size.
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In a plastic container, put some corn flour and some rice flour in the ratio of 4:1. This basically means if you use 80 grams of corn flour, mixed with 20 grams of rice flour. You can use 100% corn flour if desired. The rice flour have the ability to keep the fritters in shape when cold but it is optional.
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If desired, you can dust the flour with some white pepper.
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Coat the seafood tofu with the flour mixture as evenly as possible. Be careful with the seafood tofu as it is soft and can break easily.
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In a big pan, put about 5 cm high of oil and heat the oil using high heat. Put a wooden chopstick to assess if the rice temperature is hot enough for frying. It is considered as hot enough if bubbles start to emit from the wooden chopstick.
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Fry the seafood tofu in the hot oil until the outside is crispy and golden brown. Take out the tofu, drained and put on a piece of oil absorbing paper in an airy area before transfer to the serving plate.
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Best served hot as one of the dishes for a Chinese meal. Suggested dip is Thailand sweet chilli sauce.
CONCLUSION
Simple dish, nothing much to conclude. Serving guests with tofu and fish cake appeared to be a disgrace to one’s household cooking.. Well, combining the two simple, cheap ingredients and put in a bit of effort to “process” it will make it become a presentable restaurant dish ….
Hope you like the post today and cheers. Have a nice day.
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This post is linked to the event, Little Thumbs up organised by Doreen from my little favourite DIY and Zoe of Bake for Happy Kids, hosted by Mich of Piece of Cake at this post.
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I have never cooked like this but with your tutorial I will be trying this recipe. Thank you for sharing it on our Four Seasons Blog Hop. Pinning it now on our Four Seasons Board
Thank you.
Hi Kenneth! Thanks for taking part. Your fish tofu looks really good! When its deep fried, with the sauce, totally heavenly. I’d eat the whole plate!
thanks for dropping by.
Clever idea!
Hi Kenneth,
I laughed reading your tips and tricks of making this beautiful and delicious. You are right that all restaurants use “cheap” (basic lah) ingredients and they all did good jobs processing them… Nice that you are showing us how to do it at this post.
Zoe
Haha
This is delicious, Kenneth! I love to order this seafood tofu at the restaurant and eat it dipped with either chilli sauce or mayonnaise.
Thanks for dropping By. Phong Hong.