Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our 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 little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re 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! Authentic Szechuan style mapo tofu is one of the branding dishes of Szechuan cuisine. It is spicy, numbing, hot, aromatic and tender.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Prepare 200 gms minced pork
- Make ready 450 gms silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
- Make ready 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
- Get 1 tsp corn starch
- Take 3 tbsp ginger minced
- Prepare 3 tbsp garlic minced
- Get 6-8 dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
- Take 1 tsp sichuan pepper coarsely ground
- Prepare 1/4 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1/4 tsp sesame oil
- Take 2-3 tbsp oil depending on the fattiness in pork
Mapo Tofu - Learn how to make flavorful, and delicious Chinese mapo tofu with this easy recipe that you can make at home and better than restaurants. 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. An easy mapo tofu recipe that creates the authentic taste of China.
Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
- Heat oil in your wok over medium heat. Add your ground Sichuan peppercorns and stir occasionally for 30 seconds. Add the ginger, garlic, chillies fry until aromatic about 1-2 minute, then turn heat to high and add the ground pork. Break up the meat and fry it until it’s cooked through. add broth/water and let it come to a boil; turn heat to medium and let it continue to simmer. Meanwhile in 1/4cup of water add corn starch and mix thoroughly. Now add cornstarch mixture to the broth and stir.
- Let it continue to simmer and thicken slightly. Once slightly thick, add tofu, give a light stir, let it continue to cook for about 5 minutes, now stir in sesame oil and sugar, turn heat off, garnish with green onions and coriander and serve with a steaming hot bowl of boiled rice.
Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes. Yes, mapo tofu is such a versatile dish! I'm sharing my basic mapo tofu recipe below. It creates the very authentic taste that you'd get at a. Mapo tofu needs to be served hot for the best taste.
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