Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Make ready 200 gms minced pork
- Prepare 450 gms silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
- Get 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
- Make ready 1 tsp corn starch
- Take 3 tbsp ginger minced
- Get 3 tbsp garlic minced
- Prepare 6-8 dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
- Make ready 1 tsp sichuan pepper coarsely ground
- Prepare 1/4 tsp sugar
- Get 1/4 tsp sesame oil
- Make ready 2-3 tbsp oil depending on the fattiness in pork
It is recorded that there is a couple who own a restaurant mainly selling vegetarian dishes. The wife also the cook gets some pock (麻子in Chinese)on her face. Mapo tofu is traditionally a Chinese dish, but it's been given a Korean twist here with spicy gochjang and doenjang pastes. Mapo Tofu is a classic dish hailing from the area of Sichuan in China.
Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
- 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.
- 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.
Mapo tofu is traditionally a Chinese dish, but it's been given a Korean twist here with spicy gochjang and doenjang pastes. Mapo Tofu is a classic dish hailing from the area of Sichuan in China. This amazing dish has soft and tender tofu pieces mixed in with ground pork while being seasoned with a bunch of spice. It's a very flavorful dish that is incredibly easy to make. And in this mapo tofu recipe, we will show you how to make it as authentic as possible.
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