Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this 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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Make ready 200 gms minced pork
2. Take 450 gms silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
3. Make ready 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
4. Prepare 1 tsp corn starch
5. Make ready 3 tbsp ginger minced
6. Prepare 3 tbsp garlic minced
7. Take 6-8 dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
8. Take 1 tsp sichuan pepper coarsely ground
9. Take 1/4 tsp sugar
10. Make ready 1/4 tsp sesame oil
11. Get 2-3 tbsp oil depending on the fattiness in pork

Steps to make Mapo Tofu:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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