Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
If you know the Chinese name of Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐), the answer might be tofu made by mapo or is mapo is kind of flavor. At the very beginning, Mapo tofu is named after its creator. It is recorded that there is a couple who own a restaurant mainly selling vegetarian dishes.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Get 200 gms minced pork
- Take 450 gms silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
- Get 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
- Get 1 tsp corn starch
- Take 3 tbsp ginger minced
- Take 3 tbsp garlic minced
- Make ready 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
- Make ready 1/4 tsp sesame oil
- Take 2-3 tbsp oil depending on the fattiness in pork
This happens particularly in Chinese restaurants not specialising in Sichuan cuisine. Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Stir in black bean mixture, tofu, and peas. Add the ground pork and cook, stirring occasionally and breaking up the meat.
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.
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 classic Szechuan dish that features tofu covered in spices and minced meat. It pairs extremely well with rice, and may even be necessary with how spicy it can get. The name literally translates to "pockmarked old lady tofu", inspired by the old lady that made this dish.
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