汝南五香鸡汁豆腐干，自两百年前创制以来，以其独特的风格，一直受到人们的欢迎，此间，几经精心改良，更是香飘万里。
       
    成品豆腐干一寸见方，外带酱褐色光泽，内似琥珀半透明，温水浸软后，切成薄片或细丝，如加入适量葱白丝、蒜白丝、蔬菜、芹菜等凉拌，则鲜凉爽口，津津有味；如与肉片、葱白丝等热炒，则喷香可口，余味久远，多食不厌，更为佐酒下饭之上乘佳品。
      
    五香鸡汁豆腐干以优质黄豆和母鸡汤为主要原料，并佐以适量的大茴、花椒、丁香、凉姜等工而成。其制作工序复杂，要求也相当严格，先经选料、泡磨、点浆、包坯、压挤、除酱气等过程制成毛坯，再放入肥母鸡汤、酱油、小磨油熬煮的原汤中，按配方加入一些作料，或浸、或煨、或煮，几经不同火候卤制，出锅后相宜晾晒至干始成。

 

Spiced Chicken Dried Bean Curd

    Spiced Chicken Dried Bean Curd in Runan County is popular with amount of people for its special flavor from its creation 200 years ago. In these 200 years, it has been improved for several times and earns very high quality and flavor.
      
    The finished dried bean curd is a square lump of about 3.3 cm, which is brown and semitransparent like ambers. After dropped into moderate boiled water, we can cut it into slices or thin silks. Either dressing it with some slices of shallot, garlic and vegetables or frying it with pieces of meet and shallot is delicious and will give people a lasting taste, for which it has been the best choice to eat with wine.
      
    Spiced chicken dried bean curd chooses high-quality soybeans and chicken soup as the main materials, containing other condiments like peppers, clove, gingers and so on. The making process is very complicated and has very strict demands. First, it should experience these processes: choosing material, soaking, stewing, pressing, etc. Then put the semi-finished product into the soup stewed by chicken soup, soy sauce and small oil mill, together with other condiments and make the mixture soak, simmer or stew, then marinate with several kinds of fire. The following step is sitting and waiting for its being ripe. After it drys in the sun then we can get finished and tasty spiced chicken dried bean curd.