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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
On hot summer days like this, enjoying a refreshing and nutritious soup is truly wonderful! Let’s get cooking with TasteVN and immediately make the minced meat and chive tofu soup shared by brother Thai with delicious flavors!
Ingredients for Soft Tofu Soup with Chives and Minced Pork Serves 3
Soft tofu 2 pieces (about 300g) Chives 100 g Minced pork 200 g Shallots 2 bulbs Cooking oil 2 tablespoons Fish sauce 1 tablespoon Common spices a little (salt/ sugar/ monosodium glutamate/ pepper)
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose soft tofu without gypsum
- A piece of tofu should have an off-white color; if the tofu is yellow or slightly yellow, it contains gypsum. The yellower the tofu, the more gypsum it contains.
- You should buy tofu that feels light and soft when held. If it feels heavy, firm, slightly hard, and too square, it is advisable not to buy it because that tofu contains a lot of gypsum.
- Real, pure tofu has a distinctive aroma, while tofu containing gypsum will have a faint smell of lime or no smell at all.
How to choose fresh and delicious pork
- To ensure quality, you should choose to buy fresh whole pork instead of pre-ground meat.
- You should choose fresh meat that has a pink color, is tender, and has fat that is opaque white.
- You should choose meat that feels elastic when pressed and has a characteristic aroma.
- Avoid buying meat that is dark red, has a strange smell, as it may be pork raised with growth enhancers.
- After selecting fresh and delicious pork, you can ask the seller to grind the meat for you or grind it at home using a meat grinder!
How to choose fresh and delicious chives
- You should choose chive bundles that are still green and fresh, avoiding those with yellowing or wilting leaves.
- Fresh and delicious chives are usually crispy; you can break a leaf and if it snaps cleanly, it’s good. The surface of the leaf should be smooth for freshness.
- Avoid choosing chive leaves that are not intact, have become mushy, or have insect bite marks.
How to choose fresh and delicious bean sprouts
- You should choose bean sprouts that have thin, long stems and uneven sprouts. Chemical-soaked bean sprouts tend to have thick, plump stems that look very appealing.
- It’s best to buy bean sprouts with many and long roots. Avoid those with short and dark roots under the stem.
- You should not choose bean sprouts that have straight and shiny white stems.
How to make Soft Tofu Soup with Chives and Minced Meat
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Prepare the ingredients
Wash the chives you bought and let them drain. Then, cut the chives into pieces about the length of one finger.
Wash the shallots, peel them, and then slice them thinly.
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Sauté the meat and tofu
Place a pot on the stove and add 2 spoons of cooking oil. When the oil is hot, add the shallots and sauté until fragrant over medium heat.
After the shallots are fragrant, add the minced meat and season with 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of pepper, and 1/4 cup of water (rice bowl) and stir well.
Sauté until the meat is firm for about 2 minutes, then add 2 blocks of soft tofu. Use a ladle to mash the tofu, then sauté until most of the water evaporates, about 5 minutes.
Cook the soup
Add about 800ml of water to the pot, and when the water boils, add the cleaned scallions to cook with the meat and tofu.
After the soup boils again, skim off the foam and adjust the seasoning to taste, then turn off the heat.
Final product
So the dish of soft tofu soup with scallion and minced meat is complete. The soup is fragrant and hot with soft, fatty tofu that melts in your mouth, minced meat infused with spices along with crunchy and sweet scallions, nutritious. This dish is best enjoyed with hot rice! What are you waiting for? Let’s get cooking.
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Above is the recipe for chives soup with minced meat and soft tofu that is delicious and refreshing. I hope that with the above sharing, you will add another recipe to your chef’s notebook! Wishing you success.
*Image source and recipe are shared from Facebook Thai Cuc Nhoc
