Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Make ready 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
- Prepare 50 g minced beef
- Take 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
- Take 3 sliced ginger
- Make ready some scallions
- Get 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
- Make ready 1 chopped dried chili
- Take 1 spoon chili sauce
- Make ready 2 spoons starch
- Get some black pepper
- Prepare salt
- Get 1 spoon light soy sauce
- Take 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 can also be found in restaurants in other Chinese provinces as well as in Japan and Korea where the flavor is adapted to local tastes. In the west, the dish is often greatly changed, with its spiciness severely toned down to widen its appeal.
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
This happens particularly in Chinese restaurants not specialising in Sichuan cuisine. 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. I love cooking mapo tofu for a quick lunch or dinner. Sometimes I double the meat and sauce, so it will be enough to serve two people as a one-dish meal.
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