Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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. Marc Matsumoto of NoRecipes shares the story. 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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Take 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
- Make ready 50 g minced beef
- Take 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
- Prepare 3 sliced ginger
- Get some scallions
- Get 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
- Prepare 1 chopped dried chili
- Make ready 1 spoon chili sauce
- Take 2 spoons starch
- Get some black pepper
- Make ready salt
- Make ready 1 spoon light soy sauce
- Prepare 1 spoon sesame oil
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 popular Chinese dish from Sichuan Province, where spicy food is king and the signature spice of the region–the Sichuan Peppercorn–gives dishes a unique "numbing" effect. Place a wok over high heat until hot.
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:
- Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside
- Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
- Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don't stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse
- Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu
Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan Province, where spicy food is king and the signature spice of the region–the Sichuan Peppercorn–gives dishes a unique "numbing" effect. Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add oil, swirling to coat sides. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes. It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor that goes perfectly with steamed rice.
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