Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Mapo tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Mapo tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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 cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:
- Take 1 block soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes)
- Prepare 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
- Prepare 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
- Prepare 2 tsp soysauce
- Prepare 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Take 1 tsp sesame oil
- Take 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Take 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- Make ready 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Make ready Ground black pepper
- Get 1 tsp spicy Bean paste (optional)
- Prepare 2 tsp chilli oil (can check my recipe)
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:
- 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 (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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