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Mapo Tofu Recipe

 ·  ☕ 2 min read  ·  ✍️ Emily Scott

Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Get 1 pack Soft tofu, 1 lb chopped in cubes
  2. Prepare 100 g minced Beef
  3. Prepare 1 Scallion chopped, separate white and green
  4. Get 1 tbsp minced Ginger, fresh
  5. Get 1 tbsp minced Garlic, fresh
  6. Make ready 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
  7. Prepare 2 Dried chilies
  8. Make ready 3 tbsp Cornstarch with cold water
  9. Make ready 1/3 cup Water
  10. Prepare 2 tsp Sesame oil
  11. Make ready 2 tbsp Chili black bean paste (Doubanjiang)
  12. Make ready 2 tbsp Soy sauce
  13. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan pepper
  14. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground White pepper
  15. Prepare 1/2 tsp Salt
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Add soft tofu and salt in boiling water for just 1 minute. Mix well minced beef with 1 tbsp soy sauce and ground white pepper.
  2. Heat up a pan with sesame oil and Sichuan peppercorns until fragrant. Pick up the fried peppercorns and set aside.
  3. In the pan add marinated beef and fry until dried and brown. Add doubanjiang, ginger, garlic until fragrant. Then add hot water, 1 tbsp soy sauce, and tofu in and stir well gently. Simmer with lid on low heat for 3 minutes.
  4. Add the fried Sichuan peppercorns, dried chilies, ground Sichuan pepper, scallion whites and stir well with cornstarch slurry until perfectly thickened, and remove from heat. Sprinkle fresh scallion greens on top. Then Bon Appétit!
  5. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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