Tofu with salted fish and minced meat 豆腐肉末咸鱼粒

Quick and easy 30 minutes meals

If you are a working mom who loves cooking, who still prefers to make delicious home cooked meal for your love ones at home after a long day at work. Following recipe that I’m going to share is a great recipe for you.

This tofu dish is so quick and easy that you can serve it on dinner table in less than 30 minutes even if you included the dish preparation time.

This dish is one of the popular dishes serves in our local Chinese restaurant; it is also kid’s friendly meal. For healthy version you can do away salted fish or if salted fish not available you can replace with dried shrimp or anchovies.  For chilies lover, you can also spice up with chopped chilles.  

Tofu with salted fish and minced meat 豆腐肉末咸鱼粒

STEAMED TOFU WITH SALTED EGGS 老少平安

I like the Chinese name given for this dish 老少平安 , the name literally in English means "Elderly and young peace". I was introduced to this dish when I mentioned to one of my computing classmate Penny from Guangzhou what to do with the surplus egg whites that I have in fridge after making Portuguese egg tarts. She further explained the reason of naming "Elderly and young peace" is because the soft and smooth texture of the dish with main ingredients of tofu, fish paste and egg whites is perfect for young and elderly without worrying about missing teeth and choking problem with fish bones, therefore everyone is safe to eat. :-)

Frankly, this traditional home-style Cantonese cuisine and also regards as "lazy people food" recipe is similarly to steam eggs with variation of adding tofu and fish paste. Of course, there are other variations some even mixed with shrimp and mushrooms. My version, I didn't have any fish paste so I replaced with pork mince and added my homemade salted eggs as topping.

Steamed Tofu with Salted eggs

Homemade Salted Eggs

Salted egg yolks vs normal egg yolk