Homemade lactone tofu

Homemade lactone tofu

Overview

I always go out to buy tofu, but I don’t know how they make it. Making tofu by yourself is also a pleasure. It’s super complicated and needs to control the temperature. The main thing is to look at two dolls. It’s so challenging to cook such a troublesome dish

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. To soak the beans, you need to soak them for a day and a night until they are swollen

    Homemade lactone tofu step 1

  2. After soaking, prepare to use a juicer to make soy milk. It must be a juicer, not a soy milk machine. What is squeezed out is raw soy milk. Generally, 500 grams of raw beans require 4000 ml to 5000 ml of water. If you like it a little older, you can add less water. It should not be too thin, as it will affect the coagulation

    Homemade lactone tofu step 2

  3. To make soy milk, use two layers of gauze to filter it. The bean dregs must be removed cleanly. The taste of tofu curd mixed with bean dregs will be rough

    Homemade lactone tofu step 3

  4. To cook soy milk, be sure to boil the filtered soy milk, then simmer over low heat for 3-5 minutes until cooked

    Homemade lactone tofu step 4

  5. After the soy milk is cooked, place it indoors until it reaches about 80°C. Then prepare the lactone. Dissolve the lactone with a small amount of warm water

    Homemade lactone tofu step 5

  6. Then pour the dried soy milk into the dissolved lactone, mix it quickly and thoroughly, then cover it and keep it at about 80°C for 15-20 minutes to solidify

    Homemade lactone tofu step 6

  7. In order to keep it warm, you can make a basin of water. After the soy milk is poured in, immediately put it into a large pot and steam it over low heat. It will definitely take shape in 20 minutes

    Homemade lactone tofu step 7

  8. Like this, turn down the heat

    Homemade lactone tofu step 8

  9. After a while, there will be small lumps

    Homemade lactone tofu step 9

  10. After 20 minutes, it turned into tofu curd. Now I want to eat the tofu curd, which is especially smooth and tender

    Homemade lactone tofu step 10

  11. Prepare a container with holes underneath and lay it with gauze

    Homemade lactone tofu step 11

  12. Pour in bean curd

    Homemade lactone tofu step 12

  13. Cover with gauze

    Homemade lactone tofu step 13

  14. Use heavy objects to press it. If you press it for a long time, it will be older, and if it is pressed for a short time, it will be tender

    Homemade lactone tofu step 14

  15. After success, you can mix it raw, pan-fry, stir-fry, cook, or deep-fry

    Homemade lactone tofu step 15

  16. Off-screen, I made an extra 500 ml of soy milk, boiled it and drank it, so my lactone level was 4000 ml (´-ω-`)

    Homemade lactone tofu step 16