Tofu Hot Pot

My attempt at Tofu Hot Pot, well, actually my excuse to use my new claypot that I had painstakingly brought back home from Singapore during my last trip there. Thankfully it wasn't broken and I was able to experiment with it! It was a Tanyu Claypot and supposedly to be built a little more reliable than the regular stuff.

The first few try-outs with my claypot were disappointments, somehow the claypot didn't really impress me that much. It was mediocre to say the least. Accordingly to my mom, I was not using the claypot the way that it was might to. Hmmm...in any case...

I decided to simplify my techniques and get back to basic with the claypot. This time is a tofu recipe and pretty much you can't do wrong with it. I cooked everything inside the pot and well....it tasted good and all but I still don't see the "magic" of this particular claypot. Probably I was just expecting too much! hehehe...

Tofu Hot Pot recipe
Ingredients
-1 pack pre-fried Tofu
-4 artificial crab meat, filament style
-1 carrot, sliced
-1 medium onion
-2-3 spring onions
-1 tsp minced garlic
-Mushroom Flavor Sauce
-stock/water

Method
-Cut the tofu in triangles, slice the carrot and onion and minced the garlic.
-Heat oil in claypot at medium heat. Stir in the garlic till fragrant but not brown.
-Add carrot and onions into it and stir till a little done.
-Add tofu and crab into the pot and a little stock/water.
-Add mushroom sauce and sugar to taste.
-Cover and simmer for 15mins, add spring onions and stir for about 2 minutes.
-Serve as it is.