Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Prepare 500 g soft to medium-firm tofu
  2. Take 12 dried black mushrooms
  3. Prepare 80 g fermented black beans
  4. Get 4 cloves garlic, chopped
  5. Prepare 8 cm ginger, chopped
  6. Prepare 4 dried Sichuan type peppers, chopped
  7. Take 4 scallions, sliced diagonally
  8. Take 4 g Sichuan pepper, lightly crushed
  9. Prepare 80 g chili bean paste
  10. Make ready 20 g Chinese cooking wine
  11. Make ready 20 g light soy sauce
  12. Prepare 20 g sesame oil
  13. Take 20 g sugar
  14. Prepare 8 g corn starch
Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Soak the black mushrooms in 0.4 l water for 20 minutes, wring out the excess water back in the bowl and chop the mushrooms. Reserve the mushroom flavoured water for the sauce.
  2. Chop the ginger and garlic, and crush the black beans slightly.
  3. Stir fry the mushrooms and black beans on high heat in some peanut oil until slightly crispy and fragrant.
  4. Lower the heat, add the chopped ginger, garlic, Sichuan pepper, scallion whites and chili, and stir fry until fragrant and the garlic starts to brown.
  5. Mix the mushroom water with the chili bean paste, wine, soy sauce, sesame oil and sugar and add the sauce to the wok and let simmer for a few minutes.
  6. Cut the tofu in inch sized cubes and add them to the sauce, stirring carefully to avoid breaking them. Let simmer on low heat until the tofu is heated through.
  7. Mix the corn starch with some cold water and add to the wok, and continue to simmer until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
  8. Adjust hotness with chili oil, "mala" (the numbing quality of the Sichuan pepper) with more Sichuan pepper, saltiness with salt and sweetness with sugar. Garnish with the scallion greens.
  9. Serves 3-4 on its own or 6-8 as a part of a spread.

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