Chinese celery w/ Tofu
Chinese celery w/ Tofu

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chinese celery w/ tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chinese celery w/ Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chinese celery w/ Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

This video shows how to stir-fry Chinese celery and tofu. For the entire post, go to howardcountycook.com. Chinese celery resembles long, super skinny regular celery.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chinese celery w/ tofu using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese celery w/ Tofu:
  1. Make ready .5 lb pork butt; cut into.5” chunks
  2. Make ready 1/4 c shrimp
  3. Get 1 tbsp cornstarch
  4. Get 2 stalks Chinese celery; stalks cut into 1” pieces, leaves set aside
  5. Get Tofu; lightly fried
  6. Get .5 onion, cut into chunks
  7. Make ready 2 Roma tomatoes; cut into chunks
  8. Take 2 tbsp garlic; chopped
  9. Get 1 tbsp black bean sauce
  10. Take 2 tsp oyster sauce
  11. Prepare 1/4 c chicken broth

Chinese celery is somewhat different from the celery that we are used to. It has a much stronger flavor than Western celery, and the stalks Perhaps this will lead to interesting Chinese celery leaf recipes in the future. Chinese celery recipes often include sliced dried tofu, julienned beef, pork or chicken. Celery, an accepted Chinese herbal for thousands of years, still is one today; and it is a popular food worldwide.

Steps to make Chinese celery w/ Tofu:
  1. Coat the pork with soy sauce and cornstarch. Sauté in a pan with 3tbsp oil until cooked through.
  2. Separate the Chinese celery stalks from the leaves.
  3. Sauté your onion for a minute then add your garlic. Then the tomatoes.
  4. Grandma added this salted soy bean paste in. You can sub with black bean sauce; I think they’re the same. Add in your shrimp and the oyster sauce.
  5. Continue to sauté until the tomatoes are soft. Then stir in the celery stalks.
  6. Last but not least, the celery leaves. Add the chicken broth as needed to keep the moisture. Turn off the heat and set aside.
  7. Here’s grandpa frying up the tofu.
  8. And you’re done! Enjoy!

The most common variety, Apium rapace, is probably a younger cousin to Chinese celery. The Asian variety is less known in western countries but better known in Asia. Pungent and peppery, Chinese celery tastes similar to regular celery, only much stronger - it is rarely eaten raw. Toss in stir-fries, fried rice dishes or In days past, Chinese celery leaves were gathered for medicinal uses. Because of the volatile oil it produces, this biennial herb plant was also used as.

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