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Mapo tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Mapo tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 25 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:
- Make ready For the mince meat seasoning:
- Make ready white pepper
- Prepare fine salt
- Get cap of Shaoshing Rice Wine
- Get Thickening mapo tofu sauce:
- Get corn starch
- Get water (to create a liquid paste)
- Make ready Making the mapo tofu:
- Make ready cooking oil (or any cooking oil of preference)
- Make ready Sichuan peppercorns (add more or less depending on spice level preference)
- Take ginger, finely minced or grated
- Prepare spring onions, finely sliced (stalk part for cooking, green part for garnish)
- Prepare mince pork (or any other mince meat depending on preference)
- Take medium garlic cloves, finely minced or grated
- Take medium firm tofu or silken tofu, drained and cut into 3/4 inch cubes (add more or less depending on preference)
- Prepare frozen peas (add more or less depending on preference), soaked in warm water
- Take For the mapo tofu sauce:
- Get La/spicy Doubanjiang (chilli broad bean paste)
- Take Non-spicy Doubanjiang (broad bean paste)
- Prepare crushed Yellow bean sauce (add more or less depending on preference)
- Take spicy chilli sauce (or spicy crushed garlic sauce if not using fresh garlic)
- Get white pepper
- Get hot water (from kettle)
- Take Garnish:
- Make ready Spring onions, finely sliced
The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. What does mapo tofu taste like? Mapo tofu tastes spicy: both conventionally spicy with heat on your tongue, and málà, a numbing kind of spicy that is characteristic of Sichuan food. Mapo Tofu - Learn how to make flavorful, and delicious Chinese mapo tofu with this easy recipe that you can make at home and better than restaurants.
Instructions to make Mapo tofu:
- In a bowl transfer the mince meat and season with white pepper, salt and Shaoshing rice wine. Set aside.
- Finely chop the garlic, ginger and spring onions and set aside. In a wok on medium heat, heat up the oil, add the Sichuan peppercorns and cook until fragment. Then add the ginger and the chopped stalks of the spring onions and stir occasionally to prevent burning. Cook for 1-2 minutes.
- Add the mince meat and break it into small grains (to avoid getting clumps) using a wooden spatula. When the meat is almost cooked add the garlic and stir occasionally to avoid the garlic getting burnt.
- When the meat is cooked add both types of doubanjiang stirring to distribute the paste evenly, then add the rest of the sauces. Let it cook for a few minutes so the meat can soak in the flavours of the sauces. Then add the hot water (pre boiled kettle water) and let it simmer. Reduce heat to low for 5 - 7 minutes and cover with lid. Taste the sauce and amend if needed (add more spicy chilli sauce for hotter, white pepper or non spicy doubangjiang etc).
- Gently place the cubed tofu into the mixture. Tip: gently stir and mix the tofu in to avoid it loosing its shape and breaking apart. Let it cook for 1 minute. Lastly, add the peas and gently stir and incorporate into the mixture.
- In a small bowl add the cornstarch and water. Stir well until the mixture has dissolved into a liquid paste.
- Now add cornstarch mixture to wok. Stir everything gently, place a lid on the wok. Leave to simmer and turn the heat to very low heat for 5 - 10 minutes until the sauce thickens. Tip: if the mixture is still thin add a little more cornstarch liquid to make the sauce thicker.
- Once the sauce is to desired thickness, to finish off garnish the mapo tofu with the finely sliced green part of the spring onions. Then transfer into a large serving bowl. Eat and and serve immediately while hot. Eat it with a bowl of rice and some side dishes like steamed or panfried vegetables.
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. Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu.
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