Steam Bean Curd with Egg (蒸水豆腐蛋)

This is a simple and yet healthy and nutritious dish, with goodness of bean curd and egg, and healthy and simplicity of steaming.

This dish can also be called 老少平安, but the original version of 老少平安 include minced pork and minced fish meat.  It is called 老少平安 as there is no bones and easy to ingest and nutritious.

Ingredients

1. 1 block of Soft Bean curd (tofu)
2. 3 Eggs
3. 1-2 pieces Fish cake
4. ¼ teaspoon salt
5. 1 teaspoon sesame oil
6. 1 teaspoon light soya sauce
7. water

Method

1. Dice fish cake into small cubes (2-3 mm)
2. In a steaming tray or plate (with depth), using a spoon or fork, smash the tofu into a paste.
3. Crack in the eggs.  For one of the eggs, try to crack it nearer to 1 side so that you get about 2/3 or ¾ of the shell on one side.  Using this shell as measurement of water, add in 3 shells of water into the mixture. Add in diced fish cake, salt, soya sauce, sesame oil and mix thoroughly.
4. Steam over low-medium heat for about 10 mins until cook (but don’t overcook it, otherwise it will becomes too “old”, meaning the eggs are hardened and the water starts to separate from the eggs).  To determine if it is cooked, stick a chopstick into the middle and pull out, if it comes out without sticky egg mixture, it is cooked.

You can replace fish cake with minced pork, and for vegetarian, you may ignore the fishcake, and you may add in sliced mushroom.