Mapo Doufu
Mapo Doufu

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mapo doufu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

"Ma" stands for mázi, 麻子, which means pockmarks. "Po" is the first syllable of pópo, 婆婆, which means an old woman or grandma. Hence, mápó is an old woman whose face is pockmarked. It is thus sometimes translated as "pockmarked grandma's beancurd". Even if you're not keen on tofu, give this mapo tofu a go.

Mapo Doufu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Doufu is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo doufu using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Doufu:
  1. Take 1 block Extra Firm Tofu
  2. Prepare 225 grams Ground Pork
  3. Get 1 Leek
  4. Make ready 2 Green Onions
  5. Take 300 ml Chicken Stock
  6. Make ready 2 cloves Garlic
  7. Take 1 knob Ginger
  8. Take 2 tbsp Sichuan Chili Paste
  9. Get 1 tbsp Soy Sauce
  10. Make ready 2 tbsp Sake
  11. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp Sesame Oil
  12. Prepare Corn/Potato Starch Slurry

You can search it in Asian stores or buy from Amazon. 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 that goes perfectly with steamed rice. I love cooking mapo tofu for a quick lunch or dinner.

Instructions to make Mapo Doufu:
  1. Cut Tofu into 1 cm cubes and set aside. Chop green onions and leek and set aside. Grate/Finely chop garlic and ginger and set aside.
  2. Using a wok over high heat, add the Sesame oil and wait for it to heat up. Add the garlic and ginger and fry until the garlic is golden and it is very aromatic.
  3. Next, add the leek and the ground pork and, while continuously breaking apart the pork and stirring, cook until the pork is done. As an option you can continue cooking until it is crispy.
  4. Add the chili paste and stir until combined. As an option you can season now with salt and fresh cracked black pepper and soy sauce.
  5. Add the chicken stock and stir. Let it sit until it comes to a boil.
  6. Add the sake and soy sauce and stir.
  7. Add the tofu and stir. Bring heat down and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
  8. Add the slurry and stir until it thickens. Just look and see how much you need. Just add a little at a time.
  9. Serve over white rice or by itself, and add green onion as garnish. Enjoy!

It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor that goes perfectly with steamed rice. I love cooking mapo tofu for a quick lunch or dinner. Sometimes I double the meat and sauce, so it will be enough to serve two people as a one-dish meal. This mapo tofu recipe (麻婆豆腐) is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional, can't-have-just-one-scoop mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants. Mapo Tofu is a Chinese dish but it is also very popular in Japan.

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