Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. This mapo tofu recipe is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants! She has an extreme sense of justice and will always step forward to right wrongs.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Take soft to medium-firm tofu
- Make ready dried black mushrooms
- Prepare fermented black beans
- Take garlic, chopped
- Take ginger, chopped
- Take dried Sichuan type peppers, chopped
- Take scallions, sliced diagonally
- Make ready Sichuan pepper, lightly crushed
- Take chili bean paste
- Make ready Chinese cooking wine
- Get light soy sauce
- Take sesame oil
- Get sugar
- Make ready corn starch
It is recorded that there is a couple who. Mapo tofu (pronounced mapo doufu in Mandarin, 麻婆豆腐) originates from China's Sichuan Province. Legend has it that an old woman in Sichuan was known for serving a delicious tofu dish. I love this recipe as I can enjoy the kick-in-the-tongue sensation and the.
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.
Mapo Tofu (麻婆豆腐) is a fiery Sichuan pork and tofu stir-fry with the hallmark málà(麻辣) balance of tongue tingling and spicy. Mapo tofu needs to be served hot for the best taste. However, since tofu holds heat very well, for In terms of the Mala(麻辣) sensation (the level of hotness and numbness), my Mapo tofu recipe is not. 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.
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