Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Prepare soft to medium-firm tofu
- Prepare dried black mushrooms
- Make ready fermented black beans
- Take garlic, chopped
- Get ginger, chopped
- Take dried Sichuan type peppers, chopped
- Make ready scallions, sliced diagonally
- Get Sichuan pepper, lightly crushed
- Make ready chili bean paste
- Prepare Chinese cooking wine
- Prepare light soy sauce
- Get sesame oil
- Take sugar
- Get corn starch
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:
- Soak the black mushrooms in 0.4 l water for 20 minutes, wring out the excess water back in the bowl and chop the mushrooms. Reserve the mushroom flavoured water for the sauce.
- Chop the ginger and garlic, and crush the black beans slightly.
- Stir fry the mushrooms and black beans on high heat in some peanut oil until slightly crispy and fragrant.
- Lower the heat, add the chopped ginger, garlic, Sichuan pepper, scallion whites and chili, and stir fry until fragrant and the garlic starts to brown.
- Mix the mushroom water with the chili bean paste, wine, soy sauce, sesame oil and sugar and add the sauce to the wok and let simmer for a few minutes.
- Cut the tofu in inch sized cubes and add them to the sauce, stirring carefully to avoid breaking them. Let simmer on low heat until the tofu is heated through.
- Mix the corn starch with some cold water and add to the wok, and continue to simmer until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
- Adjust hotness with chili oil, "mala" (the numbing quality of the Sichuan pepper) with more Sichuan pepper, saltiness with salt and sweetness with sugar. Garnish with the scallion greens.
- Serves 3-4 on its own or 6-8 as a part of a spread.
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