Recipe - Stir-Fried Spinach With Fermented Bean Cheese

Stephen Ceideburg
2 bn Spinach
2 tablespoon Peanut oil
2 Quarter sized slices fresh
ginger cloves, crushed
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 Cube of fu ru *
1 teaspoon Sugar

* white fermented bean curdabout 1 tablespoon

Quong Hop, the oldest bean curd factory in the United (located in South San
Francisco), produces a delicious fu ru. It is packed in glass jars labeled
"FU RU The Cultured Tufu." Once opened, store in the refrigerator. It will
keep indefinitely.

Remove and discard the tough stems from the spinach. Wash and rinse spinach
thoroughly. Remove excess water in a lettuce spinner.

Preheat a wok over medium heat and add the oil, ginger, garlic and salt.
When oil becomes fragrant, increase heat to high, add the spinach in large
handfuls, seconds apart; stirfry until leaves are wilted.

Mash the fu ru and mix it with the sugar. Push the spinach aside and put
the fu ru mixture in the center of the wok. Stir together over high heat
until the spinach is cooked. Serve imme diately. Note. Chinese water
spinach may be cooked in the same manner. Prepare the water spinach by
using the leaves and only about 2 inches of the tender hollow stems.

PER SERVING: 70 calories, 3 g protein, 5 g carbohydrate, 5 g fat (1 g
saturated), 0 mg cholesterol, 227 mg sodium, 3 g fiber.

From an article by Joyce Jue in the San Francisco Chronicle, 6/19/91.

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