Loaches Inserting into Tofu( Ni Qiu Zuan Dou Fu)
 2016-12-20 16:46:10   Zhangjiajie Tourism Information Website  

Ni Qiu Zuan Dou Fu is a course which is commonly favored by Tujia people.It is rich in nutrition,fresh and tender as well as full of delicious favor,acting as a yummy food for Tujia people to treat honored guest.

The procedures to make such a food is as follows:

Step 1: put several loaches into a jar or a pot, and then add clean water and a slight of salt.

Step 2: Wait for one night until the loaches in a jar or a pot spitting out all the mud, sand and other impurities in their stomachs.

Step 3: use clean water to wash the loaches, and then put living loaches into fresh and tender tofu to let them go through the tofu.

Step 4: after a few small holes appearing, put them into the pan and stewed them.

Step 5: add some ingredients like pepper, chopped green onion, monosodium glutamate, chopped fresh ginger, soy sauce etc.

In many people’s view,this dish is very distinctive and innovative and it is really a very traditional and unique Tujia food.If you have not taste it yet,why not have a bite of it? I bet you will not regret.

Translated by Emma