Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. 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 tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:
- Take 1 block soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes)
- Get 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
- Take 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
- Get 2 tsp soysauce
- Take 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Take 1 tsp sesame oil
- Make ready 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Get 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- Prepare 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
- Make ready Ground black pepper
- Get 1 tsp spicy Bean paste (optional)
- Make ready 2 tsp chilli oil (can check my recipe)
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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 is a traditional Sichuan dish which features peppercorns and hot peppers to give it that. 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. This classic Sichuanese dish could not be simpler. Faster and cheaper than a Chinese restaurant.
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