Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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! 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.
Mapo tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo tofu is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to 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:
- Prepare 1 block soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes)
- Make ready 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
- Prepare 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
- Take 2 tsp soysauce
- Take 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
- Take 1 tsp sugar
- Get 1 tsp sesame oil
- Prepare 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Get 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- Make ready 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Get Ground black pepper
- Take 1 tsp spicy Bean paste (optional)
- Make ready 2 tsp chilli oil (can check my recipe)
The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. Mapo Tofu (麻婆豆腐) is a fiery Sichuan pork and tofu stir-fry with the hallmark málà(麻辣) balance of tongue tingling and spicy. 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.
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.
I love cooking mapo tofu for a. 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. Mapo Tofu (or Mapo Dofu) recipe. A Sichuan classic of melt in the mouth silken tofu, covered in a fiery red, earthy, slightly tongue numbing chilli sauce, made with Doubanjiang, the Sichuan chilli bean.
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