Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my entire 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 first prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve 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
- Make ready 3 tbsp ginger minced
- Take 3 tbsp garlic minced
- Get 6-8 dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
- Get 1 tsp sichuan pepper coarsely ground
- Get 1/4 tsp sugar
- Get 1/4 tsp sesame oil
- Take 2-3 tbsp oil depending on the fattiness in pork
It's almost like the Sichuan peppercorns are there to not only add their fragrance and flavor, but also to numb your tongue so it can take more heat! This spicy, aromatic Sichuan dish is recognizable from the citrus aroma of Sichuan peppercorns and the spicy fermented flavor of hot bean sauce. Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. It consists of tofu set in a spicy sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, based on douban (fermented broad bean and chili paste) and douchi (fermented black beans), along with minced meat, traditionally beef.
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.
Variations exist with other ingredients such as water. There is nothing wrong with this recipe, but be forewarned: It is NOT a recipe for Ma Po Tofu. First of all, Ma Po Tofu's main flavor is the Sichuan peppercorn. Prepare the mapo tofu sauce: If the tofu came as a block in water, discard the water. Cut the tofu into large chunks, then use a stand blender or immersion blender to whirl the tofu into an ivory smoothie.
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