Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mapo tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries. Personally I like to cook this dish at home from time to time especially in cool seasons such as winter and fall. Mapo Tofu can be found in almost any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes.
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)
- Make ready 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
- Take 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
- Make ready 2 tsp soysauce
- Get 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp sesame oil
- Prepare 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Take 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- Make ready 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Get Ground black pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp spicy Bean paste (optional)
- Make ready 2 tsp chilli oil (can check my recipe)
Stir in black bean mixture, tofu, and peas. Pour in chicken broth, and bring to a boil. Stir in dissolved cornstarch, and cook until thickened. Easy, delicious, breaded tofu that's perfect as a main course!
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 justly popular menu item in many Chinese restaurants It is a quickly cooked dish of braised tofu with minced pork (sometimes beef) in a bracing spicy sauce made with fermented black beans and fermented broad bean paste, along with hot red pepper and Sichuan pepper This meatless version with fresh shiitake mushrooms is completely satisfying, and surprisingly easy to make Mapo Tofu Getting reviews. This spicy, aromatic Sichuan dish is recognizable from the citrus aroma of Sichuan peppercorns and the spicy fermented flavor of hot bean sauce. Poach tofu: Slide tofu into a saucepan of simmering water and keep at a bare simmer while stir-frying rest of dish. Stir-fry pork: Heat a wok or large heavy skillet over high heat until hot and. Mapo Tofu is a classic Szechuan dish that features tofu covered in spices and minced meat.
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