Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Mapo tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:
- Take For the mince meat marinade:
- Prepare white pepper
- Take fine salt
- Prepare cap of Shaohsing Rice Wine
- Prepare Thickening mapo tofu sauce:
- Prepare corn starch
- Get water (to create a liquid paste)
- Take Making the mapo tofu:
- Get cooking oil (or any cooking oil of preference)
- Prepare Sichuan peppercorns (add more or less depending on spice level preference)
- Get ginger, finely minced or grated
- Take spring onions, finely sliced (stalk part for cooking, green part for garnish)
- Make ready grams of mince pork (or any other mince meat depending on preference)
- Take medium garlic cloves, finely minced or grated
- Get medium firm tofu or silken tofu, drained and cut into 3/4 inch cubes (add more or less depending on preference)
- Prepare frozen peas (add more or less depending on preference), soaked in warm water
- Make ready For the mapo tofu sauce:
- Prepare La/spicy Doubanjiang (chilli broad bean paste)
- Make ready Non-spicy Doubanjiang (broad bean paste)
- Prepare crushed Yellow bean sauce (add more or less depending on preference)
- Make ready spicy chilli sauce (or spicy crushed garlic sauce if not using fresh garlic)
- Prepare white pepper
- Get hot water (from kettle)
Instructions to make Mapo tofu:
- In a small bowl add the cornstarch and water. Stir well until the mixture has dissolved into a liquid paste and set aside.
- Finely chop the garlic, ginger and spring onions and set aside. In a wok on medium heat, heat up the oil, add the Sichuan peppercorns and cook until fragment. Then add the ginger and the chopped stalks of the spring onions and stir occasionally to prevent burning. Cook for 1-2 minutes.
- Add the mince meat and break it into small grains (to avoid getting clumps) using a wooden spatula. When the meat is almost cooked add the garlic and stir occasionally to avoid the garlic getting burnt.
- When the meat is cooked add the both types of doubanjiang stirring to distribute the paste evenly, then add the rest of the sauces. Let it cook for a few minutes so the meat can soak in the flavours of the sauces. Then add the hot water (pre boiled kettle water) and let it simmer. Reduce heat to low for 5 - 7 minutes and cover with lid. Taste the sauce and amend if needed (add more spicy chilli sauce for hotter, white pepper or non spicy doubangjiang etc).
- Gently place the cubed tofu into the mixture. Tip: gently stir and mix the tofu in to avoid it loosing its shape and breaking apart. Let it cook for 1 minute. Lastly, add the peas and gently stir and incorporate into the mixture.
- Before adding the cornstarch mixture give it a stir in the bowl to incorporate any of the cornstarch that may have settled at the bottom, and then pour in. Stir everything gently, place a lid on the wok. Leave to simmer and turn the heat to very low heat for 5 - 10 minutes until the sauce thickens. Tip: if the mixture is still thin add a little more cornstarch liquid to make the sauce thicker.
- Once the sauce is to desired thickness, to finish off garnish the mapo tofu with the finely sliced green part of the spring onions. Then transfer into a large serving bowl. Eat and and serve immediately while hot. Eat it with a bowl of rice and some side dishes like steamed or panfried vegetables.
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