Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will 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 (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.
Mapo tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mapo tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Get 1 block soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes)
- Take 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
- Make ready 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
- Get 2 tsp soysauce
- Get 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp sesame oil
- Prepare 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Prepare 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- Get 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Take Ground black pepper
- Make ready 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. I love this recipe as I can enjoy the kick-in-the-tongue sensation and the. Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu.
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.
Mapo Tofu - Learn how to make flavorful, and delicious Chinese mapo tofu with this easy recipe that you can make at home and better than restaurants. 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. An authentic Sichuan mapo tofu recipe. 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.
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