Recipe: Perfect Chinese celery w/ Tofu

Recipe: Perfect Chinese celery w/ Tofu Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Chinese celery w/ Tofu. 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.

Add celery and blanch for about a minute; drain in colander.

Chinese celery w/ Tofu So Mom doesn't eat chicken.

She will usually eat a quick stir fry instead.

You can have Chinese celery w/ Tofu using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chinese celery w/ Tofu

1. Prepare .5 lb of pork butt; cut into.5” chunks.

2. You need 1/4 c of shrimp.

3. It’s 1 tbsp of cornstarch.

4. You need 2 stalks of Chinese celery; stalks cut into 1” pieces, leaves set aside.

5. Prepare of Tofu; lightly fried.

6. It’s .5 of onion, cut into chunks.

7. It’s 2 of Roma tomatoes; cut into chunks.

8. Prepare 2 tbsp of garlic; chopped.

9. It’s 1 tbsp of black bean sauce.

10. You need 2 tsp of oyster sauce.

11. It’s 1/4 c of chicken broth.

It goes well with rice and the sauce that I included at the end.

The Kinchay (Chinese celery) has a pronounced fragrance and flavor that complements the tofu so well.

Compared to a regular celery Kinchay or Chinese celery is smaller with thin stalks.

The whole kinchay can be chopped and added to the dish but I prefer just to use the leaves.

Chinese celery w/ Tofu step by step

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!.

This video shows how to stir-fry Chinese celery and tofu.

For the entire post, go to howardcountycook.com Cooking with Mom.

You can substitute with regular celery.

If Chinese celery is available I use that instead of regular celery.

Also, if I am serving this to non-Asians, I usually stir fry with chicken breast instead of pork and shrimp.