Jean enjoying Tofu Soup
Tofu & Cabbage Soup Recipe
Peter and I went to this very reasonably priced Chinese restaurant called Tao in Golders Green, Northwest London. It is a buffet kind of restaurant where you choose vegetarian or/and meat dishes. It used to be a vegetarian place only but in the last couple of years, it started to serve meat as well.
The food is good but some takes getting used to like the tofu with cabbage soup. At first we were not sure as it tasted like boiled socks. (LOL, I am not really sure how boiled socks would taste as never tried boiling any before, hehehe) Well actually it smelt like socks. We only tried a few dainty sips of the soup and gave up. Food smell does make food tastes better or not.
Two days ago, we went back to the restaurant as I was positively starving and couldn’t resist the appealing array of dishes visible on the restaurant front window. So rather gingerly got a bowl of the soup. They seemed to have varied their food preparation as the soup is not too bad, It lost the boiled sock taste and smell but rather quite delicious and just set you up for a feast of vegetarian and meaty dishes.
I really loved it and so below is an easy recipe, which anyone can try at home.
Tofu & Cabbage Soup, iphone photo by JMorton
Tofu & Cabbage Soup
Ingredients
- ½ pound soft tofu
- 1 half head of Chinese cabbage
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 inch ginger, peeled and sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced finely
- 1 tsp cooking wine
- 1 tsp salt
- a few shake of freshly ground black pepper
- 4 cups water
Method of preparation:
- Cut the soft tofu into cubes.
- Wash and chop theChinese cabbages
- Prepare a pan with water and ginger. Heat the water to boiling with high fire and then put tofu cubes in. Continue cooking for a couple of minutes.
- Add chopped Chinese cabbages to cook until soft.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Pour into a large bowl and finally add some sesame oil to serve.
If you are really partial to meat, add sliced fried pork into the boiling water and proceed with the recipe above.
~Enjoy!
Did you know?
Superstition: There is an American superstition which believes that a salty soup means the cook is in love.