Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little 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 (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. The ever popular Sichuan Mapo Tofu! If you're a bit on the fence about tofu, this is definitely one of the best 'gateway tofu' dishes.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Get minced pork
- Take silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
- Get chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
- Make ready corn starch
- Make ready ginger minced
- Prepare garlic minced
- Make ready dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
- Get sichuan pepper coarsely ground
- Take sugar
- Take sesame oil
- Make ready oil depending on the fattiness in pork
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. Mapo Tofu is one of those dishes with like a mountain of different variants. And like all classic dishes where that's true, anyone that loves Mapo Tofu tends to have a very highly developed opinion as to.
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.
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