Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Mapo tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
We Have Almost Everything on eBay. Cut the tofu into large cubes and place in a bowl. Place a wok over high heat. If you know the Chinese name of Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐), the answer might be tofu made by mapo or is mapo is kind of flavor.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:
- Make ready 1 block soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes)
- Prepare 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
- Get 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
- Make ready 2 tsp soysauce
- Get 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
- Make ready 1 tsp sugar
- Get 1 tsp sesame oil
- Take 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Get 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- Prepare 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Get Ground black pepper
- Get 1 tsp spicy Bean paste (optional)
- Get 2 tsp chilli oil (can check my recipe)
Add to wok and bring to the boil. Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan Province, where spicy food is king and the signature spice of the region–the Sichuan Peppercorn–gives dishes a unique "numbing" effect. Mapo tofu can also be found in restaurants in other Chinese provinces as well as in Japan and Korea where the flavor is adapted to local tastes. In the west, the dish is often greatly changed, with its spiciness severely toned down to widen its appeal.
Instructions 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 can also be found in restaurants in other Chinese provinces as well as in Japan and Korea where the flavor is adapted to local tastes. In the west, the dish is often greatly changed, with its spiciness severely toned down to widen its appeal. This happens particularly in Chinese restaurants not specialising in Sichuan cuisine. Mapo Tofu is a classic Szechuan dish that features tofu covered in spices and minced meat. It pairs extremely well with rice, and may even be necessary with how spicy it can get.
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