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Mapo Tofu Recipe

 ·  ☕ 2 min read  ·  ✍️ Essie Hanson

Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

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

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Take 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don’t choose soft one)
  2. Get 50 g minced beef
  3. Prepare 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
  4. Take 3 sliced ginger
  5. Get some scallions
  6. Make ready 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
  7. Take 1 chopped dried chili
  8. Get 1 spoon chili sauce
  9. Get 2 spoons starch
  10. Prepare some black pepper
  11. Take salt
  12. Get 1 spoon light soy sauce
  13. Make ready 1 spoon sesame oil
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside
  2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
  3. Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don’t stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse
  4. Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu
  5. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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