Mapo tofu
Mapo tofu

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Mapo tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:
  1. Make ready soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes)
  2. Get corn flour (optional)
  3. Take mince beef or pork or chicken
  4. Get soysauce
  5. Prepare grated ginger (or ginger powder)
  6. Take sugar
  7. Make ready sesame oil
  8. Make ready spring onions (finely chopped)
  9. Make ready garlic (finely chopped)
  10. Prepare vegetable cooking oil
  11. Make ready Ground black pepper
  12. Make ready spicy Bean paste (optional)
  13. Take chilli oil (can check my recipe)
Steps to make Mapo tofu:
  1. 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.
  2. Cook for another 5-8 min on the other side and remove you tofu on a plate lay with kitchen towel.
  3. Same pan, add garlic, stir well then add mince beef, soysauce, grated ginger, spicy bean paste, sugar and chilli oil.
  4. 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)
  5. Serve with some cooked jasmine rice. It’s so delicious and comforting.

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