Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mapo tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Mapo tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
This mapo tofu recipe is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants! Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only At the very beginning, Mapo tofu is named after its creator. It is recorded that there is a couple who.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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)
- Make ready 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
- Take 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
- Take 2 tsp soysauce
- Make ready 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
- Make ready 1 tsp sugar
- Get 1 tsp sesame oil
- Take 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Prepare 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- Get 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Make ready Ground black pepper
- Take 1 tsp spicy Bean paste (optional)
- Get 2 tsp chilli oil (can check my recipe)
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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 is a traditional Sichuan dish which features peppercorns and hot peppers to give it that. 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. This classic Sichuanese dish could not be simpler. Faster and cheaper than a Chinese restaurant.
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