Chinese Recipe : Tofu Pudding (Tofu Fa)

Ingredients: 300 g Soy bean 12 cups water 3 tbsp corn meal 454g sugar 1 tbsp calcium hydroxide/carbide ( you can find it from Chinese herbal medicine store, tell the storekeeper that it is for making ‘tofu fa’) Directions: Soak the beans over night with another 4 cups of water Use that soaked and drained bean and 12 cups water to make soy milk by food processor. Reserve one cup of soy milk and bring the rest to boil, add sugar and stir well Combine the corn meal, calcium hydroxide and the one cup of soy milk into a 5 litre ‘Corning glass’ pot or other lager and good insulation pot, stir well Pour the boiling soy milk into that pot, cover and rest for about 45 mins at room temperature until set (don’t move the pot after you pour in the hot milk)

I love this dessert a lot!! This dessert is not made with tofu although its name is Tofu Fa (Fa is flower in Chinese). Calcium hydroxide/carbide may sounds like a chemical which is not able to eat, however, it does. Tofu Fa can be serve either cold or hot. With cold tofu fa, you can serve with melted sugar (melt sugar with hot water, stir them well, then put it in the fridge, add them into tofu fa when serve). With hot tofu fa, serve with yellow sugar ( this is a bit different from brown sugar).

Here is the video about how to make tofu, but not tofu fa, sorry that i couldn’t find one >0< :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMspAwi9n1Y