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Mapo tofu Recipe

 ·  ☕ 2 min read  ·  ✍️ Johnny Adkins

Mapo tofu
Mapo tofu

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mapo tofu is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only At the very beginning, Mapo tofu is named after its creator. It is recorded that there is a couple who. Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. It consists of tofu set in a spicy sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, based on douban (fermented broad bean and chili paste) and douchi (fermented black beans), along with minced meat.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:
  1. Prepare 500 g soft tofu
  2. Make ready 100 g minced pork
  3. Get 2 TSP chilli oil
  4. Take 3 TBSP Dou ban Jiang (broad bean paste)
  5. Make ready 1 TBSP chilli powder
  6. Get 1 TBSP chopped ginger
  7. Take 1 TBSP chopped garlic
  8. Get 3 spring onions
  9. Get 1 TSP soy sauce
  10. Prepare 2 TSP sugar
  11. Take 1 cup water
  12. Prepare Salt
  13. Take Corn starch
  14. Get Sichuan peppercorn powder
  15. Take TBSP fermented black beans

An easy mapo tofu recipe that creates the authentic taste of China. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes. It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor. This vegan version has all the flavors that you need: numbing, spicy, salty.

Instructions to make Mapo tofu:
  1. Chop spring onions, separate into white and green. Chop garlic, ginger black beans and the Dou ban Jiang
  2. Boil tofu for a few mins in a sauce pan with lightly salted water
  3. Stir fry pork until browned in a wok
  4. Add white spring onion, garlic and ginger, cook for a few mins with the pork
  5. Add black beans, sauté. Add Dou ban Jiang, sauté
  6. Add water to wok, stir
  7. Add the chilli powder, chilli oil and a bit of peppercorn powder, stir
  8. Add the tofu. Treat gently otherwise tofu will break. Push and pour the sauce around the tofu
  9. Add sugar and soya sauce, stir gently
  10. Make a cornstarch and water slurry and add to wok. (Optional: add 1tsp of sesame oil) stir gently
  11. Serve and top with sting onion greens
  12. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor. This vegan version has all the flavors that you need: numbing, spicy, salty. You can order mapo tofu from many Chinese restaurants, but it’s also quite doable at home. You can find the pivotal fermented chile and broad (fava) bean sauce or paste called doubanjiang. JOC’s all-time favorite dish, and it frequently makes it into my dinner menu rotation.

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