Ganquan Tofu [Shaanxi Ganquan Specialty]

What is Ganquan Tofu? Authentic Shaanxi Ganquan Specialty: Ganquan Tofu

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Basic Introduction to Ganquan Tofu

Ganquan Tofu is a Shaanxi local famous brand traditional food that has been processed by the working people of Ganquan for thousands of years using the unique resource advantages of Ganquan's beautiful water and traditional techniques

Homework Procedure

1. Soaking beans. Firstly, filter the soybeans thoroughly. Screen out the small stones and incomplete beans, wash them and soak them in water until they swell

2. Grinding. In the past, stone grinding was used to grind the paste, and tofu was coated with paste, which required 4-5 passes to complete. All adopt a "separation type slurry mill" operation, and the slurry residue can be separated in three passes

3. Burning slurry. A small workshop cooks the pulp in a large pot. Modern homework is the 'automatic slurry burning machine'

4. Point brine. After the slurry is cooked, it is put into a container (small workshops directly add brine to the pot) and the temperature is kept above 90 ℃. Use 3% brine to form blocks

5. Squeezing. The small workshop uses wooden boards to make frame containers of 1 meter x meter x 0.2 meters (varying sizes), lining them with sand cloth, pouring block shaped soup into them, wrapping them with cloth, and pressing them with bricks (stones). The modernization uses a tofu press machine, which wraps each piece in sandpaper to a size of 50 (cm) x 50 (cm) and can press 45 layers each time. It takes 30 minutes to press tofu with a thickness of about 0.5 cm

(1) Ganquan Tofu is made with delicious water, with a pure and fragrant bean aroma. It does not rot after being stored for five days in summer, showing the characteristics of "delicious land, delicious water, and delicious boiled water"

(2) Ganquan Tofu is made from double green beans and contains 18 essential chlorinated acids and multiple vitamins for the human body, especially vitamin B, which is rich in content and has high nutritional value. It is an ideal high protein and low-fat food. Display the characteristics of 'green food'

(3) It can promote the planting of legumes by farmers, increase their income. Calculated based on an annual demand of 3000 tons of double green beans (3600 yuan per ton), it can increase farmers' annual income by 10.8 million yuan, demonstrating the characteristic of "industry driving agriculture"<(4) Bean dregs can drive the development of animal husbandry and provide strong support for the construction of new rural animal husbandry. Displaying the characteristics of "industry promoting aquaculture"

(5) can drive the development of related industries (labor, raw material supply, transportation and packaging, color printing, publicity, and private economy, etc.), demonstrating the characteristics of "active urban-rural economy"