Oven BBQ Kebab Grilled Tofu

Oven BBQ Kebab Grilled Tofu

Overview

The weather is getting hotter, and the aroma of barbecue is everywhere in the evening. The smell makes people very lustful. I realized a truth while traveling: the best meals are instant noodles and barbecue. No matter where you go, the barbecue tastes the same. I think there’s no one who doesn’t love barbecue, right? Although experts say all day long that barbecue is junk food containing harmful substances, people still can't resist the temptation of barbecue. This is a primitive memory of people, starting from the time when humans began to learn to use fire to eat cooked food. My favorite food since childhood has been mutton skewers. Every time my father or mother went shopping in Zichuan, I would go with them, just to get a five-yuan barbecue. Those small mutton skewers cost seven or eight skewers for one dollar. I had to bargain with others for the price, hoping to eat more skewers. Five yuan means nothing now. At that time, it was several days' wages for a worker, and for a farmer... I don't know what the concept was anymore. I remember once I went to Zichuan with my father. I had already eaten once and wanted to eat again. I pestered my father to ask for barbecue. My father told me where to go and there was a barbecue vendor. He led me around the Zichuan Garment City and couldn't find any barbecue vendor. When I was tired, I had to take the 50-cent bus home. After I got home, I told my mother, and she gave me a slap on my face. Only then did I realize that I had been tricked by my father. He specially picked some roads for me to take that didn't sell barbecue. In fact, the family was really poor at that time and the children were not sensible. After the reform and opening up, my family started small business, which used to be called speculation. Conditions are getting better, but things were different back then. In the summer, barbecue sellers were everywhere. Only in Zichuan County do people set up stalls to sell it. It’s really not worth traveling more than ten miles just to eat some barbecue. What to do, bake it yourself. So when I was a teenager, I started barbecuing on the street. That barbecue is so generous. A large pile of firewood was found, surrounded by bricks, and a bonfire was lit. It burned until only red coals were left without smoke. A wire more than one meter long, good meat that costs a hundred yuan, a big barbecue skewer, a big piece of barbecue, and a big bowl of wine. The seasonings are all ground using a meat grinder. As for the process, all monkeys know how to learn from others, and I didn’t eat so much barbecue for nothing. Gradually, there were barbecue stalls everywhere in the city, so my family also set up stalls in the village selling barbecue and draft beer. Naturally, I would not let a talented person like me go. After school every afternoon, I would finish my homework, barbecue, pour wine, pour water, sweep the floor, wipe the table, wash the dishes, keep accounts, settle accounts... just like a waiter in a shop. Business is booming. I remember that the price of barbecue at that time had reached 3 skewers for one dollar. Then prices skyrocketed, and the price of pork increased as excitedly as if it had been injected with chicken blood. Our meat skewers are getting smaller and smaller, and fewer and fewer people are eating them. There are a lot of big skewers opened in the village, which are cheap and big... I don’t want to say more, but the price of meat has been rising. BBQ has been 2 skewers per dollar for so many years. Everyone knows what they are eating. My family was determined not to let anyone eat that food, so we closed down the business and found another way out. I remember the last time I ate barbecue cooked by my own family, it seemed that I already had Shuyu’s mother. That was in 2004, and the barbecue was already 1 yuan and 2 skewers. She said it was the best barbecue she had ever eaten. Why is it delicious? The meat is good.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, salt, boil, cook until color comes out

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  2. Marinate tofu slices overnight

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  3. Meat slices

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  4. Marinate the meat with salt, chicken essence, chili powder, cumin powder, water, and mix the meat with your hands. I used one pound of meat, 10 grams of cumin, 10 grams of chili, 5 grams of salt, and 1 gram of chicken essence. 5 grams of chive powder, you can increase or decrease it according to your preference if you like various flavors.

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  5. Wrap the skewered meat in plastic wrap and marinate in the refrigerator overnight.

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  6. Put the barbecue on top and the tofu on the bottom. In this way, all the dripping oil will drip into the tofu, and the ingredients missed when spreading the ingredients will also be sprinkled into the tofu. The roasted tofu will still have the aroma of meat. It uses energy efficiently to avoid waste and is easy to clean, killing two birds with one stone.

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  7. The meat for kebabs should be half fat and half lean. I like to use No. 1 meat or fine pork belly. Use a meat mallet to pat the meat before cutting. If you don’t have a hammer, you can also use the back of a knife. Then freeze it. It's best to cut it when it's just frozen.

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  8. When grilling grilled tofu, it is best to drain the marinated tofu and fry it in a non-stick pan for better results. Or it would be better to buy Qianye Tofu. It also tastes good with some potato slices. However, you should pay attention to the heat. Potato slices can easily burn if you are not careful

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