Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:
- Make ready 1 block soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes)
- Make ready 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
- Take 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
- Take 2 tsp soysauce
- Get 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Take 1 tsp sesame oil
- Make ready 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Make ready 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- Take 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Take Ground black pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp spicy Bean paste (optional)
- Prepare 2 tsp chilli oil (can check my recipe)
The ever popular Sichuan Mapo Tofu! If you're a bit on the fence about tofu, this is definitely one of the best 'gateway tofu' dishes. Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu.
Steps to make Mapo tofu:
- Coated your tofu lightly with corn flour then leave them aside. On medium heat non stick pan, add vegetable cooking oil in. Once your oil hot add tofu in and leave them cook for 5 min (don’t try to turn at this point) once you see tofu crisp up at the bottom you can start to turn them over and this is help tofu not get stuck on the pan and come off easily.
- Cook for another 5-8 min on the other side and remove you tofu on a plate lay with kitchen towel.
- Same pan, add garlic, stir well then add mince beef, soysauce, grated ginger, spicy bean paste, sugar and chilli oil.
- Add tofu back in and add some sesame seeds, sprinkle on top with spring onions and stir well. Ps.this is chilli bean paste I use (photo attached)
- Serve with some cooked jasmine rice. It’s so delicious and comforting.
Mapo Tofu (麻婆豆腐) is a fiery Sichuan pork and tofu stir-fry with the hallmark málà(麻辣) balance of tongue tingling and spicy. I love this recipe as I can enjoy the kick-in-the-tongue sensation and the. An authentic Sichuan mapo tofu recipe. Mapo tofu needs to be served hot for the best taste. However, since tofu holds heat very well, for In terms of the Mala(麻辣) sensation (the level of hotness and numbness), my Mapo tofu recipe is not.
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