Stirred-fried Celery with Fried Beancurd and Meat

12 April 2012
With Ester around, I am able to fulfil my mother's duty (cooking for my family) again on weekends. Nowadays, I will cook at least once on each weekend, be it noodles or rice. Cooked this vegetable dish on one of the weekends although its quite some time back =p Only has time to update it now. Its my favourite beancurd with celery and some sliced pork. A pity the pictures are not very well taken becos of the light reflection plus my girl is hungry so I gotta take the pics fast.

Ingredients (serves 5):
- a bunch of celery (use three sticks)
- 200 grams lean pork meat
- 1 piece of beancurd
- Garlic
- 1 tablespoon soya sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon starch powder
- Salt to taste

- Pepper
- Cooking oil
- Water

(A) Seasoned Sliced Meat:

- Slice the lean meat. (You can use minced meat too, same seasoning method)

- Add soya sauce (1 teaspoon), sesame oil (1/2 teaspoon), pinch of pepper and  starch powder (1 tablespoon) to the sliced meat.

- Mix till starch powder fully absorbed by meat.

(B) Fried Beancurd:

- Heat the wok with cooking oil, amount of cooking oil enough to cover 3/4 of the beancurd.
- Add in the beancurd once the oil is heated. 
- Remove the beancurd from the wok once it turns slightly brownish. You may choose to leave the beancurd in the wok a little longer if you like it crispy.
- Set the beancurd aside. 

- Remove the oil and set aside.

How to cook:

- Clean and dry the wok after frying the Beancurd. 

- Reheat the wok with 2 tablespoons of oil, that was set aside after frying the Beancurd.

- Add diced garlic once wok is heated.

- Fry garlic till it turns slight brownish.

- Add the celery and some water (2 tablespoons) and let it simmers for 3 mins,

- Add the seasoned sliced lean meat (A) and stir fry with celery.

- Add some water and stir fry a few times.

- Lastly, add the fried beancurd (B) then cover the wok and let it simmers for 3 mins under medium low fire so that water will not dry up too fast. 

- Add salt to taste and its ready to be dished out.